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Alderney a small island off the coast of the Cherbourg Peninsular one of the Channel Islands and a Crown dependency. 3miles x 1.5miles.
In June 1940 its entire population was removed and sent to either the other Channel islands or to Britain (most ended up in Glasgow). Then the German occupation forces arrived on the 2nd July. Hitler thinking that the British would attempt at recapturing, ordered it to become a Festung and later combined into the Atlantikwall.
German map of the island and its defences.
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M.A.A. 605 (Marine Artillery Abteilung)
Marine Batterie 2.
4 x 15cm SK C/28 guns in open emplacements.
4 x hexagonal gun positions (Bettung).
6 x 2cm Flak.
3 x four barreled 2cm Flak.
1 x 7.5cm LAG (anti air landing gun).
1 x 3.7cm Pak gun.
1 x M120 Fire control post for a 17cm batterie.
2 x 150cm searchlights field positions (Anton & Bruno).
5 x M151 quarters for 1 Officer, three NCO´s and 24 privates.
2 x M145 ammunition bunkers.
MAA - Marine Artillery Abteilung
MKB - Marine Kusten Batterie
M145 ammunition bunkers.
For guns crew M151 quarters for 1 Officer, three NCO´s and 24 privates.
M120 Fire control post.
M120 Fire control post.
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Ausboustand-karte Alderney the German map of the batterie.
Flak.
Main batterie.
M120 Fire control post.
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Road into the battery.
4 x 15cm SK C/28 gun.
M131 bunker for permanent machinery.
109C type generator.
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A concrete bridge allowing heavy lorries to pass over a defence trench system.
Trench.
Trench layout and where the bridge is situated.
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The edge of the bridge with the trench running out into the fields.
Trench layout and where the bridge is situated.
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Another trench bridge.
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M145 ammunition bunker.
This is a multi roomed ammunition storage.
All ammunition had to be carried by hand down into the bunker and then when needed carried back out.
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M145 ammunition bunker with two entrances.
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M145 ammunition bunker.
It was made in Bauform concrete block.
Bauform blocks and reinforcement.
Bauform construction in a casemate.
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M145 ammunition bunker.
Two entrances this one was
extra wide to allow easier access for ammunition.
The ramps running down the steps are to roll ammunition down to the bunker.
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M145 ammunition bunker.
This is the crew access.
Naval ammunition handlers.
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Water reservoir.
This may have been used for the construction phase and then kept on as an emergency water supply in case of a local fire.
Map.
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The second large M145 ammunition bunker..
6 x 2cm Flak 38.
3 x 2cm 38 Vierlinge [quadruple].
7.5cm LAG gun.
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The second M145 ammunition bunker.
Again nice wide outer stairs.
M145 ammunition bunker plan.
Map.
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The secondM145 ammunition bunker.
Steps down with a 200mm air vent on the side wall.
Plan.
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The second M145 ammunition bunker.
Plan.
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The second M145 ammunition bunker.
The first large room.
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The second M145 ammunition bunker.
The second room.
Plan.
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The second M145 ammunition bunker.
Smaller room for maybe flak 2cm, small arms or fuzes??
Plan.
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The second M145 ammunition bunker.
The second way out.
Plan.
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M151 quarters for one officer, three NCO´s and 24 privates bunker.
Map..
M151 quarters for 1 Officer, three NCO´s and 24 privates.
Officer.
Three NCO´s.
24 Men.
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Turm 1.
The first large gun emplacement with a trench leading into the emplacement.
My plan of the emplacement or Bettung.
Map.
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Turm 1.
The trench entrance into the Bettung.
The gun in its Bettung.
Behind the shield.
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Turm 1.
15cm SK C/28 gun.
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Turm 1.
There are three small niches like this and three larger ones. These may be used for the cases to be passed up through?? The larger ones for the heavier shells.
Another view of the hole..
Case with cordite to power the shell out of the gun.
Shells and case.
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Turm 1.
Another view of the hole. One more has a steel ladder down to the lower level which we did not enter.
Steel type ladders that was used.
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Turm 1.
Ammunition hoist, this is where the shells came up from the storage under the concrete lid.
Shells.
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Turm 2.
The concrete finished off with grooves.
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Turm 2.
The centre tie downs for the gun and shell ammunition hoist.
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Turm 2.
Shell ammunition hoist.
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Turm 2.
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Turm 2.
Ammunition hoist.
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Turm 2.
Trench entrance into Turm 2.
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This is very interesting if only I knew what it was???
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It could have been were the gun line was set out and this may have been a compass base.
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Turm 3.
A very bad plan of the emplacement or Bettung.
Map.
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Turm 3´s added coat of camouflage concrete.
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Turm 3.
Another ammunition hoist.
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M151 quarters for 1 Officer, three NCO´s and 24 privates.
This is the entrance attached to the gun Betting via a trench. In this trench is another odd item??
M151 quarters for 1 Officer, three NCO´s and 24 privates.
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M151 quarters for 1 Officer, three NCO´s and 24 privates.
This is the entrance attached to the gun Betting via a trench.
M151 quarters for 1 Officer, three NCO´s and 24 privates.
Tow large crew rooms for 12 men each.
Officers room & a room for three NCO´s.
Crew.
NCO´s.
Officer..
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M151 quarters for 1 Officer, three NCO´s and 24 privates.
Tobruk for all around defence.
A round Tobruk.
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M151 quarters for 1 Officer, three NCO´s and 24 privates.
This is another view of the other item I have no idea what it was for.
Officers room.
Crew.
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Turm 4.
Gunner.
15cm SKC 28.
15cm SKC 28.
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Turm 4.
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Turm 4.
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Turm 4.
About 17/18 threads with a hole in the centre to allow command wires to come up to the gun and steel ladder down into it.
Centre.
15cm SK C/28 gun.
The base of an SK C/28 gun.
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Turm 4 added camouflage.
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M120 Fire control post.
1 x M120 Fire control post for a 17cm batterie. Attached by short trench is an M151 accommodation bunker for FCP crew.
Although the FCP is for a 17cm batterie, here it is used with a 15cm batterie.
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M120 large FCP bunker.
In the nose - Observation room.
passage way to -
computing room.
[Three lower rooms]
Wireless, ventilation, latrines & wash room.
Above - crew rooms.
Middle rear - ventilation, gas lock, close combat.
M120 large FCP bunker elevation.
Top three rooms.
Obs, obs & rangefinder. Computing lower front.
M120 two observation domes and one large range finder.
M120 Noirmont.
M151 quarters for 1 Officer, three NCO´s and 24 privates.
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Turm 2.
At the south side of the battery is an oblong sunken area which was dug out to place possibly a wooden long hut in it to use as a battery office/canteen/barracks, anything that was needed..
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Wooden hut at Batterie York, Cherbourg..
A base for a wooden hut Margival showing what it may look like..
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