StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
FLAK · K.V.U.Gruppe Joburg · AOK 7 Normandy · France
StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
1 x 2cm Flak 30.
StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
The Flak is on the small hill above both StP356 and Wn354.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
Pigtails in the hedge. These were often taken from French Army stockpiles or actually removed from WW1 trenches.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
Eisenpfahel [iron stake].
A standard German iron barbed wire stake with the two distinctive shapes . First the spike at the top and the stylised swastika shape in the centre. They sat on a flat base, by digging a hole and putting the base in it, refilling the hole, tamping the earth down hard. Makes it nearly impossible to remove easily. Also turned around so that the base is at the top and a lamp can be sat on the top as a marker for a safe passage say through a minefield.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
Water reservoir.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
Widened entrance. This is where the 15.5cm s.F.H414 (f) batterie of guns entered their position.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
This is where the battery was situated and the arrow showing the widened gate way.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
Another part of the wall hastily rebuilt with an Eisenpfahel [iron stake] set into it.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
The entrance into the field has also been widened. This must have been to allow wide vehicles through.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
You can see the concrete backing to the wall.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
The other side.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
It is a field position made of rough concrete and hastily built.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
A rubbing post.
This post is for cows to rub up against to relieve an itch but originally it was I think part of the emplacement. Thank you to the two Gulls for showing off the post.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
A rubbing post. Auderville in the distance.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
Flak position.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
Flak position.
I think this hastily built position was for two purposes, one a sort of Pill box defence and the other to hold a 2cm Flak 30 inside it.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
I am not sure if the gun could fire trough the aperture in the ground roll or it was sitting higher up.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
Some of these holes may have been for railway lines and may have then be covered with a wooden floor.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
The Flak 30 may have sat on a wooden floor (now completely removed) held up with railway lines. There is a railway line across the floor today.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
The gun may have sat on the very top where the three slots are of lower down able to fire through the large slit which faces the way the Americans would advance??
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
Another side with just a square hole.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
Bullet damage in the concrete.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
The way the Americans would have advanced.
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StP356 Auderville Laye H.K.B. “Flak”
Rain over Alderney and the Railway Battery.
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