Trou05 Vasouy

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Trou05 Vasouy

Wn Trou05 Vasouy

Between Wn Trou04 and StP Vasouy M.K.B. battery.
How it looked in 1944. The 5cm KwK Pak L/60 gun. Behind is the SK searchlight emplacement.

5cn KwK gun.
5cn KwK gun.
Search light.
Search light.
Tobruk.
Tobruk.

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy

1 x L411/SK Scheinwerfer (search Light).

2 x Ringstands for 5cm KwK.

2 x Vf bunkers.

2 x 5cm KwK L/60 guns.

1 x Vf58c Tobruk.

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy
This is the easiest route to take to the Wn.

IGNF

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy
A lovely walk along an empty beach very early in the morning.

30 October 2010

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy
Plan of the defences five years on. L to R 5cm KwK ringstand and Vf bunker behind. Tobruk on the cliff edge. another 5cm KwK on the top of the bank. An R411A searchlight bunker with an SK embrasure for the light and behind another Vf bunker with a double entrance.

IGN 1949

R411A The two small rooms are equipment & fuel, the right hand room for crew. The bottom left generator room and garage.
R411A The two small rooms are equipment & fuel, the right hand room for crew. The bottom left generator room and garage.
An R411 not an R411A I am afraid but gives an idea of what it looked like.
An R411 not an R411A I am afraid but gives an idea of what it looked like.
R411 showing the ramp down where the searchlight would have used.
R411 showing the ramp down where the searchlight would have used.

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy
Today.

IGNF

R411 crew room.
R411 crew room.
A crew room.
A crew room.
Search light.
Search light.

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy
This is the layout from the beach.

30 October 2010

Tobruk.
Tobruk.
5cm KwK L/60.
5cm KwK L/60.
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Wn Trou05 Vasouy

Wn Trou05 Vasouy
How the beach used to look.

WO 252/149

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy

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The start of the Wn.

30 October 2010

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy
SK searchlight emplacement. Not really camouflage more graffiti. This was a searchlight to look for sea targets like ships coming up the estuary into the Seine. The searchlight would light up the target and track it, the guns at StP Vasouy are just to the west and guns inland and could then fire on the targets.

30 October 2010

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy

Wn Trou05 Vasouy
SK searchlight emplacement. Where the searchlight would stand.

30 October 2010

Search light.
Search light.
Searchlight.
Searchlight.

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy
The rubbish put into the concrete.

30 October 2010

Mixing concrete.
Mixing concrete.
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Wn Trou05 Vasouy

Wn Trou05 Vasouy
Ramp down to the garage.

30 October 2010

Ramp down into an R411 type garage.
Ramp down into an R411 type garage.
R411 garage entrance.
R411 garage entrance.
A 60cm searchlight and generator.
A 60cm searchlight and generator.

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How this Vf and ringstand may have looked.
How this Vf and ringstand may have looked.
Vf bunker & Ringstand.
Vf bunker & Ringstand.
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How this Vf and ringstand may have looked.
How this Vf and ringstand may have looked.
Vf bunker & Ringstand. The gun sat in what is now the round pace of grass.
Vf bunker & Ringstand. The gun sat in what is now the round pace of grass.
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Wn Trou05 Vasouy

Wn Trou05 Vasouy
How it looked in 1944. The 5cm KwK Pak L/60 gun. Behind is the SK searchlight emplacement.

Archive 1944

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View from the beach.

30 October 2010

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy
The western ringstand.

30 October 2010

The western ringstand.
The western ringstand.
Plan.
Plan.

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy
The western ringstand.

30 October 2010

The western ringstand.
The western ringstand.

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy
The Vf bunker behind in the field. You can see the bunker outline and the two entrances that would have connected up to a trench system.

IGNF

Plan.
Plan.
Vf bunker showing the entrance at Wn99 Brevans, Carentan.
Vf bunker showing the entrance at Wn99 Brevans, Carentan.
Vf bunker entrance with the door into the bunker on the right. Brevans.
Vf bunker entrance with the door into the bunker on the right. Brevans.
Vf bunker crew room. Brevans.
Vf bunker crew room. Brevans.

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy
Vasouy beach with the early low winter sun. This is a place where an archaeological dig ought to take place and open all the bunkers up.

30 October 2010