Trou04 Honfleur plage
WN · StP.Gruppe Trouville · AOK 15 Haute-Normandie · France
Wn Trou04 Honfleur Plage
Just to the west of Honfleur there is a small parking place and a square based light house. This is Trou04.
The emplacement just after capture.
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2 x Sk bunkers.
1x Bf66,
1x R501
2 x Ringstands for 5cm KwK guns.
1 x Vf58c Tobruk.
2 x
5cm KwK 39 L/60 guns.
Wn Trou04 Honfleur Plage
This KwK gun would have covered about 180degrees of the large sandy beach area. The way we see the road layout, the grass bank and beach area is not how it would have looked in 1944. The gun was closer to the beach and over time land has been reclaimed and the road made up.
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The beach area has been re claimed and is now much further away..
Geoportail 1973
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You can just see the ringstand behind the bins.
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The road towards Honfleur with the ringstand behind the waste bins.
30 October 2010
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Ringstand with the Sk bunker behind.
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The pit for the gun now filled with earth.
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How it may have looked with its 5cm KwK gun in position.
30 October 2010
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This is the bunker as it was with an entrance into the bunker and a wall covering the way into the ringstand. The 5cm KwK L/60. L/60 has a muzzle break and an L/42 has no muzzle break.
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You can just see the open emplacement of the ringstand.
Geoportail 1949
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British officers were sent on a fact finding mission to photograph all the beaches against which a future landing may have to be made if a future war was necessary.
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Bf66 bunker and a ringstand for the 5cm KwK.
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