Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.Gruppe Vannes, KVA C2, AOK 7. Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.

 

Square 2 showing where along the top of the ridge is.

This is where we are aiming to walk.

Leaving the two large Ammunition Depots and the Hospital bunkers behind we head out along the ridge.

Path along the ridge.

Site plan of Site No.2 the walk along the ridge.

Bunkers and trench systems showing up on this air photo. Yellow squares look like the sites of the 10men bunkers. There were at least four bunkers so forty men held this flank of the defence. With a very long trench system, 2cm Flak and a steal framed/wooden watch tower or fire control tower to watch over the area. The tower could also have been the first fire control tower to be used to control the guns.

The first 10 Man bunker. Some are hard to find and quite overgrown.

The first 10 Man bunker.

The second 10 Man bunker. Easier to find.

The second 10 Man bunker. This is the chimney for the bunker heating and also for cooking the crews food.

The second 10 Man bunker. The bunkers entrance.

The second 10 Man bunker. Protected passage way entrance.

The second 10 Man bunker. One of the bunkers rooms. Bed fittings on the far wall.

The second 10 Man bunker. This wall has hooks on the roof and bolts in the wall for three tiers of bunk beds.

The second 10 Man bunker. A better look at the hooks and fittings.

The second 10 Man bunker. Chimney and behind the broken water tower.

Water tower with a 2cm Flak on the roof. Possibly a 2cm Flak 28 Oerlikon on the top of the tower.

The third 10men bunker.

The third 10men bunker.

The first Fire Control Post. Four concrete bases of a fire control post.

The first Fire Control Post. The concrete base with a steel leg now cut off.

The first Fire Control Post. 8P7 fire control post the type may have been used here. It could be made of timber or steel legs.

Trench systems running along the back of the defence.

Fourth 10men bunker. The S487 Fire Control Tower in the background.

Fourth 10men bunker and its chimneys.

Fourth 10men bunker. Entrance area.

Fourth 10men bunker. Sealed up.

Fourth 10men bunker. Date of construction.