Wn165 Mont Etolan

K.V.U. Gruppe Cherbourg Land · AOK 7 Normandy · France

Wn165 Mont Etolan
Wn165 Mont Etolan

Blue square is the Flak tower?

Yellow square is the HQ Building?

Green square is what looks like a Personal Bunker

Red squares are the main four buildings.

Wn165 Mont Etolan

Built to check the accuracy of aircraft bombing after 1941 and always situated near an airfields and used for air bombing and firing practice. In Denmark they were used for twin engined aircraft Me Bf 110 and Ju 88, and the same types of planes could have used the range here

Wn165 Mont Etolan

The V165 is a modern version of a camera obscura.

Victorian camera obscurer.
Victorian camera obscurer.
Wn165 Mont Etolan

There are four of these buildings. The doors are all facing south away from the bombing range.

A mirror in the roof reflects the bomber target. The image shines down onto a target table. A flash from the bomb dropping is reflected on the table and the position can be pin pointed and the accuracy sent to the plane or squadron.

Wn165 Mont Etolan
Wn165 Mont Etolan

Looking over to three and four with a fence picket post sticking out of the hedge.

The details were then sent to the Agregât building.

Eisenpfahel barbed wire post. 
(Iron post).
Eisenpfahel barbed wire post. (Iron post).
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As far as I can see there were three buildings and each could take a reading of the target and give a very accurate plot of the bomb drop'

There may not have been a large table it just may have been a man looking at a mirror. Which ever its an interesting subject.

Wn165 Mont Etolan

Flak Tower and Agregât Building.
On the right is the Agregât building. This would work out the accuracy of the bomber and then radio the results to the plane.

Pilot.
Pilot.
He111.
He111.
Bomb aimer.
Bomb aimer.
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This is a flak tower for a 2cm Flak 30

2cm 38 Flak.
2cm 38 Flak.
Wn165 Mont Etolan
Wn165 Mont Etolan

Looking up into the structure showing the bad condition of the concrete.
A whole section of concrete has broken away.

Over London.
Over London.