Wn14a Hameau du Sud - Les Gougins
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Wn14a Hameau du Sud - Les Gougins
6., Grenadier-Regiment 919 .
1 x Wellblech bunker.
1 x Bf.67neu Tobruk.
1 x Pilz pillbox.
1 x APX R R35 Turret with a 3.7cm KwK144(f).
1 x 8cm Gr.W. Mortar.
Wn14a Hameau du Sud - Les Gougins
Wn14a Hameau du Sud - Les Gougins
Wn14a sits between Wn14 & 16 with mine field Mf.57 running along the front.
It looks as though Wn14a was slotted in to cover the D69 going straight to Wn135 - StP Marcouf MKB.
1942/3
Wn14a Hameau du Sud - Les Gougins
Wellblech sitting in the corner of a garden. A Wellblech or corrugated iron bunker. A cheap and easy bunker to build with concrete foundations and a an iron top and then covered in more concrete. They were used as crew quarters, ammunition, storage, etc.
07 October 2013
Wn14a Hameau du Sud - Les Gougins
The Allied Bigot plan showing the pillbox, tank turret and machine gun positions.
12 May 1944 Bigot
Wn14a Hameau du Sud - Les Gougins
This I believe is the Bf.67neu Tobruk with an APX R R35 Turret with a 3.7cm KwK144(f).
1944
Wn14a Hameau du Sud - Les Gougins
8cm Gr.W. Mortar and crew.
August 1944
Wn14a Hameau du Sud - Les Gougins
Pilz pillbox a concrete round wall with a domed roof with three gun ports and a rear door. The report states it was hit by 3” guns. It looks as its all come in from inland so possibly tank rounds.
R-9751-2 Report on German Concrete fortifications ETO US Army Sept-Oct 1944
Wn14a Hameau du Sud - Les Gougins
Looking inside through the door with the three embrasures.
10 May 2008
Wn14a Hameau du Sud - Les Gougins
A signals Corps rather staged photo of a US soldier looking north.
1944
Wn14a Hameau du Sud - Les Gougins
07 October 2013