Tre09 Le Tréport, le Grange
StP Gruppe Le Treport · AOK 15 Haute-Normandie · France
Wn Tre09, Le Tréport, le Grange
Around 53 troops.
2 x R630 Machine gun casemates with armoured plate.
1 x R515 Machine gun casemate.
1 x R680 Casemate for a 7.5cm Pak40.
1 x Kabelbrunnen.
7 x Vf58c Tobruk's.
1 x Feldm shelters.
1 x Wellblech shelter.
1 x 7.5cm Pak 40.
J. Laurent.
Wn Tre09, Le Tréport, le Grange
The plateaux above the town and Tre01 covers the southern way into the town.
Wn Tre09, Le Tréport, le Grange
The only gun position we found is pointed out by the red arrow. A Canadian Sherman tank coming up this road would have been blown sky high by the 7.5cm PaK in the R680 bunker.
22 February 2014
Wn Tre09, Le Tréport, le Grange
The gun casemate would have been camouflaged and until the gun fired they would not see it. The range to here is 720meters. The Sherman's main armament has an effective range of 450meters.
22 February 2014 or 1944
Wn Tre09, Le Tréport, le Grange
There would of been a half circle of seven Tobruk's, trenches, road blocks, two R630, one R515 casemates and lots of wire & mines.
22 February 2014
Wn Tre09, Le Tréport, le Grange
The 7.5cm & 8.8cm Pak guns became so big, heavy and unwieldy that they were gradually being removed from front line use and then were placed in casemates on the Atlantikwall where they became deadly. On D-day with an 8.8cm in Wn72 and then another at Wn61, with terrible crossfire. Where as if they had been in the open they may have not lasted so long.
22 February 2014
Wn Tre09, Le Tréport, le Grange
This photo is a 720 meter shot not too bad. Effective guns range was 1,800 metres (5,906 ft) that would be ample for this 720 meters.
22 February 2014
Wn Tre09, Le Tréport, le Grange
This bunker would have had some trenches around the rear to enter the rear. The roof would have had earth on the top and grassed over.
22 February 2014
Wn Tre09, Le Tréport, le Grange
Unlike a normal R680 which is rounded and usually has a flanking wall, here there is no flanking wall. The walls and roof are squared off to allow the bunker to blend into an urban situation. In towns there are only verticals and horizontals, no rounded corners.
MKB Bunker tour
Wn Tre09, Le Tréport, le Grange
The two R630's can be found one in a housing estate and the second in a garden, the R622 is in a field of crops and the R680 covers the plateaux. Also the trench system and 'T's are I think three of the seven Tobruk's. They still could be there.
