Vill 01 Deauville plage est

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Vill01 Deauville plage est

We stayed in Trouville (its cheaper than Deauville) which is a lovely town. There is plenty of parking and you can walk the port & sea front. Do this on a lovely sunny day. Then its really worth it.

Photo: an air photo of Vill01, to the left of the river.

Bauform Vf600v Ringstand for5cm KwK gun.

Vill01 Deauville plage est

1 x R604
2 x Vf2a
1 x Vf Skoda casemate.
3 x Vf58c Tobruk's.
2 x 5cm Ringstands
1 x LS Bunker.
1 x 7.5cm F.K.231(f).
2 x 5cm KwK L/60.
1 x 4.7cm Pak K36(t).

Vill01 Deauville plage est

Vill01 covers the right hand side of Deauville from the dock area to the beach which is slightly different now as there is a new Yacht Marina and housing complex.

Vill01 Deauville plage est

The area I think is covered by Vill01. Most of the southern area has either been built on or a large Yacht marina has been dug out.

1944 KA

Vill01 Deauville plage est

Luftschutz bunker, air-raid shelter, a large bunker with several internal rooms with entrances at both ends. Often a Tobruk each end as well. This is slightly outside Vill01 and nothing to do with the defence, purely an air-raid shelter for the port.

1944 KA

Vill01 Deauville plage est

Looking from above you can see the entrances and also two Tobruk's covering the entrances.

IGN 1948

Vill01 Deauville plage est

Luftschutz bunker, looking south at the Quay de la Marine in Bassin Morny. [WO 252/151]

WO 252/151

Vill01 Deauville plage est

Luftschutz bunker, this is the view from the road, and built on the roof is now the Deauville Yacht Club.

Google Earth

Vill01 Deauville plage est

Luftschutz bunker, a door has been cut into the side to allow tractor parking and storage.

21 July 2008

Vill01 Deauville plage est

Luftschutz bunker, air vent with the cover removed.

21 July 2008

One a little like this may have been used.

Vill01 Deauville plage est

Tobruk. Now on the edge of the inner docks. Now on the edge of the inner docks. This does look like a Tobruk covering the inner waterway. The docks were blown up as the allies worked their way up the coast.

Where I think there was a Tobruk set into the Lock.

It would have looked very much like this.

Vill01 Deauville plage est

This Tobruk had two rooms, a gun room with the Tobruk ring in the top and a small living/ammunition room down three steps. Also a door out or a manhole in the roof to come and go by.

Vill01 Deauville plage est

The estuary of the Toques river. The ferry to Trouville.

21 July 2008

Vill01 Deauville plage est

Vf Skoda casemate 4.7cm Pak K36(t). This is the 4.7cm Pak K36(t) the right hand side as you can see the waste ammunition pit in the front. The attached bunker could be a living bunker?? All this has now been removed.