Wn93 St-Clément

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

Wn93 St-Clément

Wn93 St-Clément

Driving through Isigny and crossing the river Aure and then turn left (north). On the corner by the bridge is a very nice bar and you can sit outside with a beer and have Oysters for lunch, now that is bunker hunting.

SHEAF (Int) Div.

Isigny.
Isigny.
A post card of the river estuary.
A post card of the river estuary.
Two hundred odd years ago.
Two hundred odd years ago.

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Out in front was a 4.7cm Pak 181(f), then the Vf4a machine gun casemate, a Tobruk and a mortar bunker. There was an anti-submarine/shipping net across the river. Surrounded by mines and wire. 1 x 4.7cm Pak 181(f). 1 x Vf4a machine gun casemate. 1 x Vf8 Tobruk. 1 x Ic116 Tobruk. 1 x Vf2a group shelter. 1 x 8.14cm Gr.W.278(f) mortar. Several machine guns.

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Vf4a casemate.
Vf4a casemate.
Vf2a group shelter.
Vf2a group shelter.
Vf8 Tobruk.
Vf8 Tobruk.

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Wn93 sat on the junction of river & dyke. Mine fields covering the eastern side of the river bank another on the other side of the canal.

German army map

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Mine laying.
Mine laying.
S mine box.
S mine box.

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The view up the river estuary.

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Getting closer. There would have been a mine field to the right.

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4.7cm Pak 181(f).
4.7cm Pak 181(f).

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Vf4a

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4.7cm Pak 181(f) was sat further up the river.
4.7cm Pak 181(f) was sat further up the river.
Vf4a casemate.
Vf4a casemate.
MG.34 on its heavy tripod.
MG.34 on its heavy tripod.

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The slit could be a bricked up escape hatch and a slit for another machine Gun?

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The slot in the wall is for a chimney fitting. The red arrow is where the embrasure was situated.

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Vf4a embrasure..
Vf4a embrasure..
Vf crew heating.
Vf crew heating.
Wt80k heater.
Wt80k heater.

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Looking into what was the gun room and the flanking wall.

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Vf4a embrasure..
Vf4a embrasure..
Vf4a plan.
Vf4a plan.
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Flanking wall damage.

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Rear entrance.

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Vf4a plan.
Vf4a plan.

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Passage way.

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details
details

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Rear door a 19P7 gas tight light steel door.

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Vf4a plan.
Vf4a plan.
19P7 gas tight door.
19P7 gas tight door.

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Water filled crew room.

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Vf4a plan.
Vf4a plan.
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The door way into the gun room.

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Vf4a plan.
Vf4a plan.
7.92 Ammunition boxes.
7.92 Ammunition boxes.
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Table for the machine gun to sit on.

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Machine gun table.
Machine gun table.
Vf4a plan.
Vf4a plan.
Crew.
Crew.

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Tobruk situated level with the dyke.

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Tobruk.
Tobruk.

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Plan.
Plan.

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Group shelter for about 15 men.

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Vf2a plan.
Vf2a plan.
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Passage way in. The end wall has been blocked off but on most Vf2a's it would have been open.

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Plan.
Plan.
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A gas tight 19P7 gas tight door with a small glass window.

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Plan.
Plan.
19P7 door.
19P7 door.
Gasschutztur 19P7 door.
Gasschutztur 19P7 door.

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Crew room

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Plan.
Plan.
Crew.
Crew.

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Bunk bed hooks where chains would be hooked onto them to hold up three beds.

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Escape hatch tunnel.

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Plan
Plan
Plan of escape.
Plan of escape.
410P9 escape door.
410P9 escape door.

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Heating, in the wall is the chimney pipe.

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Wt80k heater.
Wt80k heater.
Plan of the heating and chimney pipe. The long outer down pipe is shaped like that so if a hand grenade is dropped down it, it passed down and outside of the bunker.
Plan of the heating and chimney pipe. The long outer down pipe is shaped like that so if a hand grenade is dropped down it, it passed down and outside of the bunker.

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The roof.

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An extra ammunition space.

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An extra ammunition space.

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Field ammunition store.
Field ammunition store.

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8.14cm Gr.W.278(f) mortar.

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Ic112 Mortar Tobruk.
Ic112 Mortar Tobruk.
Mortar gun pit and mortar fitting.
Mortar gun pit and mortar fitting.
Crew firing.
Crew firing.

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8.14cm Gr.W.278(f) mortar Tobruk.

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details
details
details
details
Plan targets, a forward control officer could call down mortar or gun fire on a mapped targeted area.
Plan targets, a forward control officer could call down mortar or gun fire on a mapped targeted area.

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Eisenpfahel barbed wire post laying over the Tobruk.

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Eisenpfahel barbed wire post.
Eisenpfahel barbed wire post.
Eisenpfahel barbed wire post.
Eisenpfahel barbed wire post.
Eisenpfahel barbed wire post.
Eisenpfahel barbed wire post.

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Port of Isigny a small coaster unloading by the Americans after it was captured.

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The old docks.
The old docks.
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