Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

K.V.U.Gruppe Vire · AOK 7 Normandy · France

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

Wn88 a standard small Wn armed with one 5cm KwK gun and a heavy machine gun in casemates.

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

Grenadier-Regiment 726 (Oberst Walter Korfe - HQ (CP) Château de Sully).

12 Kompanie HQ (CP) Grandcamp.

1 x R667 casemate.

1 x Vf4a MG casemate.

2 x Vf58c Tobruk's.

2 x Vf2a bunker.

1 x 5cm KwK L/42.

Plan SD

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

1 x R667 casemate.
1 x Vf4a MG casemate.
2 x Vf58c Tobruks.
2 x Vf2a bunker.
1 x 5cm KwK L/42.

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

Vf58c Tobruk one of two Tobruks in the local defence, this one covers the north sector

13 October 2018

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

Vf58c Tobruk.

13 October 2018

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

Vf8 Tobruk the entrance into the Tobruk which may have had a trench leading from the other defences to this Tobruk.

11 May 2008

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

Vf58c Tobruk the view north.

11 May 2008

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

R667 Casemate for a 5cm KwK L/42 rather bashed but still looking a bunker.

13 October 2018

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

R667 Casemate with a very long flanking wall to protect the embrasure and gun from direct fire from the seaward side.

13 October 2018

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

R667 casemate looking into the gun room, now totally destroyed. After capture all the ammunition in the area would be placed inside one of the bunker/casemates. Then the lot was exploded. Some bunkers with large amounts of ammunition, blew the bunkers to absolute pieces. Others like this, just lifted, cracked and then settled back down.

13 October 2018

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

R667 casemate gun room with maybe part of the gun in place??

11 May 2008

The base of the gun with bolt holes to fit into the hold fast in the base of the bunker, the square shape fitted into a hole in the floor and bolted down.

This is the guns base fitted into a ringstand and the gun slots onto the centre post.

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

R667 casemate the gun room looking north up the coast.

11 May 2008

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

R667 casemate rear showing its protected rear entrance.

13 October 2018

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

R667 casemate

13 October 2018

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

R667 casemate looking onward to the Vf4a casemate.

11 May 2008

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

Vf4a casemate, a machine gun bunker.

13 October 2018

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

Vf4a casemate, a large flanking wall protecting the embrasure like the R667 earlier. The flanking wall which has been nicely rendered over from the original rough shuttered finish. Its a Machine gun casemate, shrapnel proof and a design date of 1942. Vf Verstärkt felmä§ige or semi-permanent bunker of between 80 to 100mm (Rolf).

13 October 2018

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

Vf4a casemate with a rather tall embrasure with a half round table to set a machine guns legs on. There were many types of machine guns that could be used but also many captured machine guns, French, Polish & Czech to name three.

13 October 2018

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

13 October 2018

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

Vf4a casemate the view the bunker would have had. There was NO anti-tank gun that covered this portion of the beach??

11 May 2008

Wn88 Géfosse-Fontenay le casino

Vf4a casemate an extra ammunition room. I think this was a small room to add for extra storage and ammunition. The main bunker has a gun room, a crew room and an entrance/ammunition room.

11 May 2008