Wn10 Hameau Mottet
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StP10 Hameau Mottet
2 x Vf2a shelters.
2 x Vf69 mortar Tobruk's.
1 x Vf/Skoda.
1 x R676 casemate.
1 x R612 Gruppe bunker.
1 x Vf/MG.
4 x Vf shelters.
4 x Vf58c Tobruk's.
1 x Ringstand Gr.W.
1 x 5cm Ringstand.
1 x 7.5cm F.K.
1 x FT17 3.7cm KwK 144(f).
1 x S35 4.7cm KwK 173(f).
2 x 4.7cm Pak K36(t).
1 x 5cm KwK L/60.
1 x 4.7cmPak 181(f).
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Memorial to the landing of the 2nd Armoured Division (French: 2e Division Blinder, 2e DB), commanded by General Philippe Leclerc landed around the 1st August 1944.
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Possibly an M4A2 of the 2e Division Blinder.
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Possibly just arrived in France and waiting
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A monument to General Leclerc’s 2nd Armoured Division of the Free French Army who landed on this stretch of Utah beach on the 1st August 1945.
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Layout of the defences of StP10 and the barbed wire fence surrounding the inland side.
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The Allied Bigot map showing the defences and the row of Element 'C' just off the beach..
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The RAF & the USAAF had reconnaissance Squadrons that worked together to gather as much intelligence as they could before D-Day.
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The left bunker: an old fortress design not really a field positions type.
The right bunker: an R676 an updated version of the Skoda bunker. This one has an integral flanking wall. A better rear entrance and an escape hatch. Oh and much thicker concrete.
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Left - Vf Skoda 4.7cm Pak K36(t).
Right - R676 4.7cm Pak K.36(f).
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A standard Vf Skoda casemate one of several around this part of France. A Fortress design but adopted here with two flanking walls and also they are quite low so the vision slit can view over them.
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The gun was set into the embrasure and the slit on the left is the gun commanders viewing slot. Two unusual defensive flanking walls may have been added to protect the gun after it was built. They were not standard.
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Gun room.
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The gun was bolted to the embrasure and could swing inward to open. The main 4.7cm gun can be used but also a co-axle MG.Vz37(t) could also be used for close defence.
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The numbering above the guns embrasure indicates the angle of the gun 3300°. The German compass measurement is 0 to 6400 thousands (mills). [Bunkersite.com]
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The view down the beach.
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Note the periscope armoured tub rising out of the bunker.
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Rear of the bunker.
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An armoured piercing round. Looks a bit like a Sherman round? or a destroyer out to sea.
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The escape hatch and steel ladder up the side of the bunker. There would have been a brick wall built around the ladder as protection and the sand covering the whole of the side.
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The escape tunnel.
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The front view.
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The gun room and rear entrance.
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Periscope tube fitting. This would allow the gun commander to be able to stay in safety and have a 360° view.
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View up the beach.
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A very simple gun emplacement with ready ammunition niches around the walls.
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It would have been a hell of a view from here on D-Day.
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Now concreted over.
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These very easy to make had a tank turret fitted on the top and small ammunition shelves each side. Crewed by two to three men, gunner, ammunition handler and third either helping pass ammunition or spotting for the gun.
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Rear view.
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Gun room. A heavy steel door frame around the entrance where there should have been two steel doors. These if fitted would have been removed by the scrap men.
L.A.G. Landings Abwehr Geschutz ( Landing Defence Gun).
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Gun room. The half round slots in the floor were so the guns trail could slot into it and stop the gun moving backwards when fired.
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The view the gunners would have had up the beach to the north.
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The gun room towards the rear.
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The two large pipe fittings on the left side for a large extractor fan.
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Two ammunition niches either side.
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What looks like a 3inch shell may have come from a Tank Destroyer
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The view at the front. Note the small machine gun embrasure to the right of the bunker.
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Tagged onto the side of the casemate is a machine gun position.
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The Belgian Gates removed off the beach by US engineers.
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An emplacement for a Gr.W.34 80mm mortar.
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You can just see the second larger mortar pit and the Tobruk for close defence and spotting the mortars fire.
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This is a very interesting item, its a compass platform where the soldiers stationed here could be shown the points of the compass. A very important training aid. A lot of the soldiers were non German speakers or their fist language was not German, so by taking them here and showing them the points, when told to fire east Exxon degrees, they would know in which direction to fire.
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The German compass as I said earlier is 0 to 6400 thousands (mills). [Bunkersite.com] and here it can be shown to the new soldiers to the Wn.
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This emplacement would and was sunk into the sand dunes, but for some reason the farmer cleared away the sand and has exposed several bunkers. He has done it rather badly and not in an Archaeological way and left rather a lot of damage and more than the combined forces of America could inflict on it.
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Entrance.
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Ammunition room.
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Machine gun Tobruk which doubles as the fire control and observation. From this Tobruk you cannot see the targets to the eastward (sea). So the machine gunner would take messages from a forward observation soldier by a field telephone. But this may brake so he may have to make hand signals to the machine gunner and there may have been special hand signals.
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Mortar pit.
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Mortar pit ammunition niche. Below the niche is the direction 'S' south.
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South to West. 31 to 16.
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The plate for the base of the mortar.
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Observation/defence Tobruk.
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Not sure if the damage was during the war or the farmers heavy handed archaeology.
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Chimney outlet.
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Way in.
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Named as the kitchen.
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Passage entrance.
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Date of manufacture 1943.
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Inside.
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Escape in the far wall.
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Way out.
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It looks like the garage has been made out of an old building. The left wall made of brick and the rest concrete. It may have been a garage for 3.4cm anti/tank gun before the casemates were built.
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Type Ic116
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Plan of how these 5cm mortar Tobruk's work. A post set into the centre hole in the floor, pegged tight and the mortar sits on a table on the top.
Allied intelligence plan.
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Entrance into the crew room.
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The plate was to sit the 5cm mortar on.
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This is how it looks now after the thieves had been around.
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Out on the wire defending the rear defence.
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LCT could come it to the end and unload and smaller LCT's and infantry craft could land along the sides.
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Allied plan.
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US infantry landing.
1944
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This is a picture that we rarely see or understand. On the beach is the landing stage built to the south of StP10. The roadway inland and north & south. Then an odd parking area inland. This is where vehicles coming off landing ships/craft and driving into the fields to either remove all their water proofing and later to unload ammunition, food, spares, kit, etc. It would be then collected and taken inland to where it was needed.
1947
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