Wn201d Pointe du vieux fort (StP Cap Lévi) Seeadler

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Wn201d Pointe du vieux fort (StP Cap Lévi) Seeadler

Wn201d part of StP Cap Lévi a small peninsula sticking into the channel ideally placed to have a radar station. Here is the anti-aircraft defence.

What I had to go through for some of these pictures.

Wn201d Pointe du vieux fort (StP Cap Lévi) Seeadler

StP Cap Lévi the red circle with the four Wn's 201a, b, c & d. Here we are covering Wn201d. Between Wn201d and the sea was a mine field Mf.86. A very difficult one to lay, as there is not very mush earth there as it on the top of granite.

German defence map

Wn201d Pointe du vieux fort (StP Cap Lévi) Seeadler

Kriegsmarine Station:
2.Funkmess-Abteilung. ID F2 - 253.
1 x L410a emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak.
2 x L409a emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak.
1 x L411 bunker for 60cm searchlight.
1 x L7 position for a 60cm searchlight.
1 x Vf58c Tobruk.
1 x Zisterne Wasser.
3 x 2cm Flak 30.

Wn201d Pointe du vieux fort (StP Cap Lévi) Seeadler

The area the Flak sits.

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Supermarine Spitfire XI from RAF Benson, Oxfordshire photographic reconnaissance.

17 March 1944 542Sqn RAF

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Tobruk defence between the sea and the Flak.

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The view inland.

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The view to the sea.

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View down into the Tobruk's crew room.

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Wn201d Pointe du vieux fort (StP Cap Lévi) Seeadler

Set out about the furthest north of the pointe. The L7 emplacement sits just in front of the bunker designed for a crew quarters and generator.

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Wn201d Pointe du vieux fort (StP Cap Lévi) Seeadler

The two pipes that stick out at the front are tubes for radio aerials to fit in. Each bunker had the ability to have up to four aerials fitted. Very few were, but if on entering a bunker and finding the aerial slots, you see an earth strap still in place, you can bet that that tube had an aerial.

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Wn201d Pointe du vieux fort (StP Cap Lévi) Seeadler

The L7 for 60cm searchlight emplacement on the left and the L411 bunker to the right.

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60cm searchlight.
MKB Bunkertour. — 60cm searchlight. MKB Bunkertour.

Wn201d Pointe du vieux fort (StP Cap Lévi) Seeadler

The rear entrance showing a large vent to allow heat from the generator out and the door for the generator entrance and searchlight garage. The row of hooks to hang a camouflage net to.

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This is where the generator would have sat.

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Generator.
MKB Bunkertour. — Generator. MKB Bunkertour.

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The entrance passage.

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Crew room: -
HES. Heeres-Einheits Schutzlüfter - Army unit protection air gas defence filtration.
Sprachrohr - speaking tube.
434P2 - Close combat defence embrasure.

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Plan of the Sprachrohr tube from the Tobruk defence into the crew room.

HES. Heeres-Einheits Schutzlüfter - Army unit protection air gas defence filtration.

Heeres-Einheits schutzlüfter - wandstütze wall support.

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4ML01 equaliser valve. Equalizes the internal and external pressure in the event of an explosion outside.

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My wife enjoying the sun.

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The centre where the searchlight sat. The door way at the far end was a small crew room where possibly a member of the crew would receive instructions through head phones.

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The rear entrance of the L410a. Four air vents set into the wall.

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One of the entrances. A close combat defence covering the stairs.

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491P2 Gittertür (Screen Door) would have closed off this entrance.

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Crew room. Air ventilation pipes in the roof.

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483P2 close combat embrasure

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One of the small rooms.

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Another of the small rooms. On the floor is a drain. The pipe in the roof is attached to the air pump to blow in fresh air. This could have been an Officers/Warrant Officers room.

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Wn201d Pointe du vieux fort (StP Cap Lévi) Seeadler

The official designation is for a 3.7cm Flak gun, but here and a lot of places around here they had 2cm Flak instead. Its just what was available and possibly ammunition supplies.

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Here the guns were 2cm Flak 30.

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Wn201b held the radars and had early on, one 2cm Flak Orlikon. So it used this Flak site to help protect it (see To Seckommandant der Normandie).

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To Seckommandant der Normandie.

Wn201d Pointe du vieux fort (StP Cap Lévi) Seeadler

The gun would have been lifted manually by the crew onto the centre circle that was for a larger gun. And the the large entrance would have had bulks of wood and or sandbags to fill in the gap. To enter the position you would pass through the right hand side entrance. It has a slight kink to stop splinters passing straight through and possibly hitting a crew member.

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Luftwaffe Flak crew.

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Wn201d Pointe du vieux fort (StP Cap Lévi) Seeadler

Ready ammunition niches set in around the walls and several small rooms to allow crew to shelter in.

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The entrance that would have been closed off when the gun was in position. The left opening is the entrance and the far crew shelter.

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I have never been able to work out why there is a sort of sump hole. It could have held the cable inlets from the command post and also somewhere to put your feet??

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Water was very necessary and at StP Cap Lévi there were at least three Zisterne Wasser.

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Built at the beginning of the 19th century as additional defence for Cherbourg Harbour, the fort is now an interpretation and leisure centre. Free visit of the exterior areas.

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