Wn201b Semaphore (StP Cap Lévi) Seeadler

Kriegsmarine Station:
2.Funkmess-Abteilung. ID F2 - 253.
1 x Fu.MO 214 Würzburg-See Riese (Ozet 557).
1 x FuMO 2 Calais B (Ozet 556).
1 x V229 Fu.MO 214 Würzburg base.
1 x SK/Machinenstand. 2 x SK bunkers.
1 x Feldmässig bunker.
1 x Nr1694 ringstand.
1 x 2cm Flak 28.
1 x 9.4cm Flak (e). British QF 3.7-inch AA gun.
1 x 5cm KwK L/42 Pak.
1 x Wooden Barracks.

The defence of Wn201b was by: -
1 x 2cm Flak 28 Oerlikon.
1 x 9.4cm Flak (e). British QF 3.7-inch AA gun.
1 x 5cm KwK L/42 Pak.

2cm Flak 28 Oerlikon a light AA gun either fitted on a plinth mount or on three legs. Here I would think it was a plinth mount.
5cm KwK L/42 Pak was an ex tank gun, now redundant in tanks and were issued on a mounting to set in concrete with a steel shield and was an exceptional ground defence gun in its fixed position. Usually a Nr1698 ringstand was specially built for the gun.
9.4cm Flak (e). British QF 3.7-inch AA gun, this is very interesting, a captured gun from either the British at Dunkirk, or from Belgian/Norwegian stock. Brought here and used as a very good AA gun. Here we have a big BUT. But in Britain the 3.7 was being updated with a much better computer controlled direction finding systems. Here the 3.7 was the 1939, pre war design and not up dated. And also ammunition was not being manufactured and they would have to use captured ammunition, again now getting on for four/five years old. But for that it was an equal to their own 8.8cm AA gun. MKB Blankensee Wn126 a Marine batterie just along the coast, also had four British QF 3.7-inch AA gun. in casemates and used as a defence gun. So also being a Marine batterie they may have been the lucky/unlucky to be issued British captured stock guns.
Defence troops would have been Marine troops and there was a large minefield around the site and a trench system that wound right the way around behind the minefield. Issued with the K98 rifle and as many machine guns as they could get, they could be used to hold defence strong points.

StP Cap LéviSeeadler is split up between Wn201a, b, c & d.
Here we are covering just Wn201b. Mf23, Mf75 & Mf86 are the mine fields covering the StP.

Order of battle for the radar station in 1942.

Order of battle for the radar station in 1942 (translated badly by me).

1 - Observation.
2 - Wooden hut (with roof removed).
3 - SK/Machinenstand.
4 - Fu.MO 214 Würzburg-See Riese (Ozet 557).
5 - FuMO 2 Calais B (Ozet 556.
6 - Barbed Wire.
7 - French Semaphore.

This picture was taken on the 30 June 1944.

You can now see the wooden hut in place.

1 x FuMO 2 Calais B (Ozet 556): The FuMO 2 Calais B or FMG 40 G was produced by the company GEMA and introduced by the Kriegsmarine in 1940 as an improved version of the FuMO 1 Calais. It was able to locate naval targets out to 15-20 km. It was based on the Luftwaffe Freya radar and was located in most naval radar stations. It had one antenna with four rows of vertical dipoles, 16 in each rows.

There does not seem to be a photo of the FuMO 2 Calais B here at Cap Lévi so I have added in one from up on the hill at Fermanville.

The French Semaphore sitting behind the Fu.MO 214 Würzburg-See Riese (Ozet 557).
1 x Fu.MO 214 Würzburg-See Riese (Ozet 557).
The Fu.Mo 214 Würzburg Riese was the Kriegsmarine version of the popular Luftwaffe radar. Produced by the company Telefunken it was able to locate naval targets out to 60 km and had an excellent accuracy. It was, therefore, the mainstay of almost any radar station. The Kriegsmarine used the Fu.Mo 214 both in the Seetakt and the Seeart roles, the latter to direct the fire from coastal batteries.

SK/Machinenstand - SK Sonderkonstruktion (Special construction). Machinenstand - generator house.

In here would have been powerful generators to run the power hungry radars.

All there names.