Wn455 Ferme Saint-Acaire (StP La Vaquerie)

Part of StP La Vaquerie one of three Wn's in the StP. Stützpunkt - A StP was geographical larger and more strongly armed. Normally a StP consisted of several Wn. Normally Wn and StP were occupied by Heer troops. Additional complexes, e.g. radar positions or battery positions were often located within a StP. Here troops of different branches of service were used. The tasks within StP were then divided depending upon the order of the troops of the different armed services, e.g.: Heer - defence, navy - naval coastal battery, Air Force - radar equipments/Flak. Wiederstandsnest - The smallest position in the German defence arrangement was the Widerstandsnest (Wn). A Wn was occupied of one or more groups. A group consisted of 9 soldiers and a sub-officer. The armament consisted in the mostly of light weapons. Depending upon individual combat order the armament by heavy weapons e.g. antitank defence cannons was strengthened. ´SK´ (Sonder Konstruktion) - Special construction. Axis History.        HEER - Army

 

An R622 twin group bunker with a wasser tank.

Plan of the main defence. Three individual Wn's, two with only R622 twin group bunkers and the third Wn454 with the major defence..

The size of the Cherbourg defence, there was also many anti-tank ditches built covering the eastern, southern & western approaches to the city.

1 x R622 twin group bunker. 2 x Vf58c Tobruks.

Tobruk defence. The second picture from a captured Tobruk in Courseulles showing the ring to house a machine gun..

American troops advance on Cherbourg passing one of the defence bunkers.