W 1 StP Türkemburg 'Cambridge Battery'

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Alderney a small island off the coast of the Cherbourg Peninsular one of the Channel Islands and a Crown dependency. 3miles x 1.5miles. In June 1940 its entire population was removed and sent to either the other Channel islands or to Britain (most ended up in Glasgow). Then the German occupation forces arrived on the 2nd July. Hitler thinking that the British would attempt at recapturing, ordered it to become a Festung and later combined into the Atlantikwall.

Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Ausboustand Karte Alderney.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

1 x Tobruk Vf58c.
1 x R701 garage for Pak 40.
1 x Jäger casemate.
1 x R670 casemate.
1 x Vf Pak casemate.
1 x 10.5cm K 331(f).
2 x 7.5cm Pak 40.
1 x 60cm Searchlight.
1 x Road block.
Several Vf MG positions.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Jäger bunker, Vf casemate for a 75cm Pak, MG position and a 60cm searchlight.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Platte Saline road block.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Platte Saline road with one remaining concrete part to the road block, there would have been another on the left side.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

This is the road block at Longy Bay using two steel I beams that could swing across the road and block it.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Close up picture of the concrete block.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Jäger casemate for a 10.5cm K331(f) gun. A 'Jäger' bunker is named after its designer.

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10.5cm K331(f) gun in an open emplacement.

Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Strong concrete flanking wall.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Vf anti-tank casemate for a 75cm Pak 40 gun.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

60cm searchlight position on the top.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Victorian Caponier converted from musketry loopholes to two machine gun emplacements. There were many machine gun positions all around the fort.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Search light casemate. A very strong position.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Vf for a 75cm Pak 40 gun room ready to shoot right down the beach.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Vf for a 75cm Pak 40 gun room ready to shoot right down the beach.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

The view down the beach from this embrasure in 1945 taken by a British Officers.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Vf for a 75cm Pak 40 gun room and Vf MG position next to it. The half round shape on the floor is where a steel runner would have sat so that the guns rear legs would sit to stop the gun moving back on the recoil when fired.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

The machine gun position.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Passage way cut through the old forts wall.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Passageway continuing on.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Musketry loopholes converted to concrete rifle emplacements.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Converted Victorian caponier converted to a twin machine gun position.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Out behind the Jäger bunker.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Layout.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Back entrance of the bunker

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

The whole rear of the bunker, left the large vent to vent out gasses from the gun room. Next close combat defence, door entrance, two ventilation vents and the Tobruk defence entrance.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

The Tobruk defence. There would have been a steel slip ring for the machine gun to slide smoothly around.

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The gun sat on a slip ring that could travers 360°.

Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

The round hole is the Sprachrohr mouthpiece would have been screwed in and by speaking through it, you could talk to the troops inside the bunker. The square shape on the left is another communications connection and could be attached to a field telephone to also speak to inside or a connection to the main telephone network.

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'Sprachrohr' the words painted on the wall.

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Looking into the Tobruk from the steps.

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One thing I have noticed on Alderney and nowhere else on the Atlantikwall is the use of aerials mounted into Tobruks. It does not mean they were used but they could be.

Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Close combat embrasure covering the rear door with a lethal MG34, a sub-machine gun or a rifle. What ever was at hand.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

The entrance is much wider than later bunker types, so here there were two gates to fill the gap.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Inside the left niche is a relay box for a field telephone, this would contact the inside of the bunker from the entrance.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Two aerial slots either side of the door. A 434PO1stable type armoured door with its four heavy hinges.

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The two types of this door, left & right.

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4ML01 equalising valve. When a close explosive goes off a pressure wave is forced into the bunker via its fresh air system. This equalising valve closes it off and stops the air pressure rise.

48P8 close combat defence embrasure fitted here.

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Crew room with door to the gas lock.

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Fresh air pipe connection. Its rare to find the pipes in place and rarer to find a pipe connector.

Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

The tooth shaped pieces of concrete on either side was for a large steel double door and frame to protect the gun room.

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484P2 is a door that may have been envisaged here but never fitted.

Cleaning brushes hung on the wall of a bunker.

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This is where the empty fired shell cases would have been stored and then removed to be re-used at a later time.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

This is where a large ventilation fan and an electric motor would have sat on the concrete plinth. The gases when the gun fired would be sucked out by the fan and sent to the the large 300/400mm vent in the rear wall.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Gun room with left to right the ventilation vent, the guns tie down ring. There was also a periscope fitting in the roof.

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The collecting vent in the gun room top left hand corner.

Base for the periscope in the floor on the left side.

Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

The tooth shaped pieces of concrete on either side was for a large steel double door and frame to protect the gun room not fitted.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Ammunition room and the bunkers escape on the far wall. Ammunition would be stacked in racks with about three loads of shells. A load is the amount of shells calculated for firing for a certain length of time. Then when more is needed, the order would go out for how many loads were needed.

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The escape man hole cover over the shaft going down to the bunkers ammunition room.

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The escape tunnel shows the thickness of the bunker walls with slots in the sides for escape shutters, lengths of metal strips with a handle to shut off the space.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Steps through the wall.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

DA nice brick and stone passage.

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One of the many 68, 32 pounder gun mountings that were here.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

32 Pounder gun in position and crew.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Another gun position.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Two more 1855 guns and searchlight position.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

German concrete mixed with English Granite blocks.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

The searchlight ran on rails so that it could be pushed out hear to search the sky for aircraft, back into the tunnel for service, repair or storage. Or run out at the far end and used to show up targets for the artillery inland or the guns set around here.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

There was a total of 35 larger searchlight in addition to numerous 30cm types. Twenty four of these were 60cm, with six being housed in bunkers unique to the Island. It had a range of five Kilometers. www.alderneylivingislands.com.

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Searchlight storage and maintenance area.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Niches in the wall for spares and tools.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Search light casemate.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Looking back.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

It says crew or generator bunker, if a generator was inside it would be noisy, smelly and dirty, I would think the crew were somewhere else. There was also a cable from this room to the main searchlight emplacement.

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Bunker/searchlight generator. Although it needed to be small, it also needed to be powerful to power the light.

What the Allies called a Gerry can for the petrol.

Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Searchlight generator bunker. They would have had communications via the main field telephone system to the Flak HQ and the Artillery HQ to either send details of what they have seen or else to receive orders on where to search with their light. The lights could also be directed by sound and radar location.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Just around the corner on the next bay is this garage for a 7.5cm Pak40 A/T gun. R701 garage for Pak 40. Just a long corridor for the gun to enter and there may have been some ammunition storage. In some garages it was under the floor. It lies next to another Victorian Caponier.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

The hard stand for the 7.5cm Pak40 A/T gun to be fired from. It would have had either concrete walls around the front and two sides or sand bags and or earth piled up.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

R670 casemate for a 10.5cm K 331(f).

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R 670 casemate for a pivot gun with 90° angle of fire.

Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Looking into the gun embrasure. There is a lot of wood is still in place after all this time.

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I believe this is the way the gun and shield would have looked.

Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

The rear door.

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Alderney, W 1 StP Türkenburg 'Cambridge Battery'

Ammunition and ventilation. Very much the same as the Jäger casemate but this time the extraction was removed from slots in the roof structure and piped through the concrete to a fan and out via a 200mm vent in the rear.

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