Wn226 Nacqueville Les Quais

 

On the 02 June 1944 a Supermarine Spitfire PR Mark XI, of No. 542 Squadron RAF based at Benson, Oxfordshire flew over and took the picture. The anti-tank ditch can be seen behind the defence.

Walking in on the path from the modern housing estate. The three mounds R to L FA Unterstand for quarters, R134 ammunition bunker & an R606 SK bunker garage for a 60cm searchlight.

The FA Unterstand could look like this but it is now covered in sand like all the three bunkers here. Plan of an FA Unterstand showing the small bunker with trench blast walls around it. Details supplied by MKB Bunkertour [Face book].

This is what the R134 would have looked like but now covered in sand. A long passage running across the front of the bunker and two ammunition rooms off to the right with two 434P01 split armoured doors.

The main picture is from Wn92 Wigwam near Isigny. Its the same sort of style of bunker that is here with a large door on the left for the searchlight garage and on the right the crew room. The one here is an R606SK and also covered in sand and is inaccessible. SK - Sonderkonstruktionen (Special construction,

The path to the sands.

Tucked away down the beach on the right is a Vf67 Tobruk for a Pz.T.FT17 tank turret. The turret would have had a Mitrailleuse Mle 31(f) inside it.

This is the German plan of all the Wn´s and StP´s and also MF (mine fields) with MF14 & MF103 around the defence. Wn - Wilderstandsnester - resistance nest. StP - Stützgpunkt - group of size resistance nest.

The FA Unterstand covered in sand. FA - Feldmaßige - Field type construction.

The gap in the grass is where I came through onto the beach and this Vf58c Tobruk sits almost hidden under the dune.

Bits that may or may not have been left over from the war.

Two parts of a beach obstacle or Rommel’s Asparagus.

Looking down the left side of the beach to the major part of this defence.

First the Ringstand for a searchlight, R667 casemate and then an. nr.1694 Ringstand. Beyond is a Tobruk.

Left an ammunition niche, searchlight emplacement and another possible ammunition niche or are they??.

Ammunition niche but I could not find any opening.

Snail shaped entrance into the searchlight emplacement.

Plinth to sit the 60cm searchlight on.

There are two niches either side but as this is not a weapons pit I do not know what they were for.

Small niche possibly for a telephone connection to the bunker behind.

This is the R667 casemate for a 5cm KwK L/60 gun.

R667 casemate covering the western end of the beach.

A very badly damaged Nr.1694 Ringstand for a 5cm KwK gun. These guns were ex tank guns and very good they were, but by 1944 they were redundant as all new tanks had 7.5cm & 8.8cm were being fitted. So as there were so many guns left over a bunker mounting was made. First these guns were set into Nr.1694 ringstands, sometimes in much bigger ringstands with crew rooms below. Then to strengthen Nr.1694 some ringstands had a wall and lid to cover the seaward side of the gun. Several double casemates where the gun can pivot from one side of the beach to the other and last of all a casemate set to flank the beach an R667.

This is the hold fast of the 5cm KwK gun. And the second picture is the Lafette base plate of the 5cm KwK gun (at Fort de Roule, Cherbourg) that fitted into the hole.

Ammunition niche.

Vf58c Tobruk.

The main defence covering the western beach.

Eisenpfahel barbed wire post.