Wn17 Hameau de Fontenay - La Brèche

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Wn17 Hameau de Fontenay - La Brèche

2 x Ringstand 1694. 2 x Vf2a shelters. 1 x Vf2d. 1 x Bf.69 mortar ringstand. 1 x 1694 Ringstand 2 x M.G. Stand. 3 x Vf8 1 x U type Pz.Drehturm. 1 x APX R R35 3.7cm KwK(f) coaxial M.G.311(f). 2 x 5cm KwK L/60. 2 x 8cm Gf.W.34 mortars. 1 x 150cm Searchlight.

8cm Gf.W.34
mortar. — 8cm Gf.W.34 mortar.

150cm searchlight. The searchlight may not have been in position by June 1944.

Wn17 Hameau de Fontenay - La Brèche

The iconic 1694 Ringstand with M.G. stands to the right and the golf course rough area where the main defence was situated.

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Wn17 Hameau de Fontenay - La Brèche

Full plan of Wn17.

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Wn17 Hameau de Fontenay - La Brèche

M.G. Stand for what may have been an M.G.08. A WW1 type machine gun with a slow heavy weight of fire that could sustain long periods of just pounding away. Tak tak tak rather than the tearing cloth of the later M.G.42.

13 June 2017

Wn17 Hameau de Fontenay - La Brèche

I have no idea what this bunker would have looked like.

13 June 2017

This is how it may have looked, an M.G.08 at Wn28 Bernières-sur-Mer.

Wn17 Hameau de Fontenay - La Brèche

13 June 2017

Wn17 Hameau de Fontenay - La Brèche

1694 ringstand set in quite high on the bank under the Golf Club House.

06 March 2016

Wn17 Hameau de Fontenay - La Brèche

1694 ringstand nicely placed to cover 360° but its job would be to cover the southern flank of the Wn. Another took the north flank.

06 March 2016

Wn17 Hameau de Fontenay - La Brèche

The gun would have covered looking south as we are now, and the entrance into the ringstand from behind (right side in photo). A trench would have lead up to the ringstand from behind and delivery of ammunition.

06 March 2016

An L/60 placed in about the same way as the one above would have been.

The L/39 & L/42 did not have muzzle break but by attaching one to the L/60 making it a much better and higher velocity gun.

Wn17 Hameau de Fontenay - La Brèche

The northern flank today where the main defence was situated and many of the bunkers remain, they are not accessible due to the fact they are in an active golf course.

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Wn17 Hameau de Fontenay - La Brèche

Vf.8 ringstand. A trench would have come through from behind to allow access to this ringstand.

06 March 2016

Wn17 Hameau de Fontenay - La Brèche

Second M.G. Stand.

06 March 2016

Wn17 Hameau de Fontenay - La Brèche

Trench coming out of the golf course that may have continued out to the ringstand.

06 March 2016

Wn17 Hameau de Fontenay - La Brèche

Bf.69 mortar ringstand with a ringstand for the 8cm Gr.W.34 mortar. The second ringstand is for the observer to use and he would also have a machine gun for defence.

06 March 2016