Tu500 Croisic Vigie de la Romaine: Luftwaffe station 'Nutria'

RADAR · K.V.Gruppe Loire · AOK 7 Brittany · France

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Luftwaffe station 'Nutria'. Luftnachrichten-Regt.54. 19. Flugmelde-Leit-Kompanie.
2 x V229 radar bases.
6 x Vf2b Gruppe shelter.
11 x Vf58c Tobruk's.
1 x M123 Machinery bunker.
4 x L402 Emplacements for 2cm Flak guns.
2 x R622 twin Gruppe bunkers. under construction. 4 x 2cm Flak 30.
2 x Fu.SE 65 Würzburg-Riese.
1 x Fu.MG 401 LZ Freya 1 x Fu.MG 450 Freya.

Plan

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SHM plan.

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This is the first view you get of two bunkers, the one on the right no problem. On its left now a garage and I have just noticed.

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The two Vf2b's. Vf2b was a Gruppe shelter a 1942 design of one room and a passage entrance acting as a sort of blast wall. Most have an escape hatch in one of the walls and a steel door (now removed ).

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Vf2a.

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A nice small bunker that can accommodate a Gruppe of eight to twelve soldiers.

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The pigtail hooks to hold a camouflage nett.

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Camouflage nets being laid out on a bunker.

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Now a very nice garage.

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There were eleven Tobruk's around the radar station. We found two.

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M123 bunkers were for machinery, a generator for a searchlight (Unterstände für Maschinen und Scheinwerfer). Here it probably powered the three radars.

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Now an attempt to convert it into a house. I would buy it. But derelict at the moment.

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The door allows access from both sides.

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The two doors and central section.

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A large ,obile generator that could fit inside.

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I think the two Vf2b's here had a Freya radar setup on the hard stand between the two bunkers. The radar set placed on the concrete and wooden bulks of timber filling in the gap.

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A British intelligence drawing of a Frey radar.

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2 Vf2b's with a hard stand between the two.

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The Freya sat between the two bunkers with large wooden bulks of timber slotted into the recesses in the bunkers and filled with sand or small shingle.

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Details

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How the radars may have worked, picture taken form 'Luftnachrichten and the Reich's defense'.

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Chimney from a stove inside the bunker. It was used not just heating but also for cooking and drying ones cloths.

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This is a small blast wall covering the entrance passage.

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The entrance passage

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Inside the bunker with the escape on the left, marks on the wall for bunk bed fittings and the outlet for the chimney.

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Escape door 414P9 type.

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Escape door 414P9 type.

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The escape running through the concrete wall.

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Looking into an escape and showing the shutters to close off the outside, they fitted into a slot seen on the main picture.

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Light switch recess.

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Outside on the hard stand between the two bunkers. The passageway to the bunker, the escape on the left and a small square recess in the wall which I am very sorry I did not notice when we were there and the virtical slots for timber walls.

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The escape into the outside world.

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Notice the double set of slots, to me they may have been where large bulks of timber could be set between the bunkers. The two rows timber could have had sand or fine pebble infill to act as an armoured protection and can also be taken down to allow the radar to be removed and replaced.

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My plan showing the Freya radar sat on the hard standing and the timber walls.

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The passage through to the second bunker now sealed up.

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An odd lean-too??

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Heading back to the sea front and along the road west.

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Now in a very nice garden, this Tobruk would have protected this part of Tu500 from the seaward side.

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The FuSE-65 Giant Würzburg radar was developed by the Telefunken Co., it was used to locate and track Allied aircraft & shipping (as a secondary use). A pair of Würzburg antennas were used together; one to track Allied aircraft and the second to guide German fighters with the help of the Freya set.

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