Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
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.
Map.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Ausboustand-karte Alderney.
Ausboustand-karte Alderney.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Anti-Tank Wall - Panzermauer.
Czech Hedge Hogs.
Tetrahedron.
Mines.
Fort unused.
Tetrahedron.
Czech Hedge Hogs.
Mines.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Panzermauer 12 the anti-tank wall.
Setting a Teller mine.
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Laying mines.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Panzermauer 12 the anti-tank wall.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Panzermauer 12 the anti-tank wall.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Platte Saline Battery.
This was an English fort and for some reason not used by the occupiers. It mounted in 1859 five 68-pounder guns.
68-pounder gun.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Tetrahedra beach defence.
Tetrahedron.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Eisenpfahel barbed wire defence posts.
Eisenpfahel.
Eisenpfahel point.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Czech hedgehog. Anti-tank defence.
Czech
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Czech hedgehog anti-tank defence.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Main entrance to the fort now a builders merchants.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline. Sand Wall.
Sand loading bay to be used in the manufacture of concrete.
Narrow gauge railway.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline. Sand Wall.
We have found three sand walls where the loading of sand trains by top loading railway wagons from horse drawn wagons, two in Normandy and now one here.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline. Sand Wall.
Railway trucks now rusting out used for the quarries.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline. Sand Wall.
Railway trucks now rusting out used for the quarries.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline. Sand Wall.
The sand wall.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline. Sand Wall.
The sand wall.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline. Sand Wall.
The sand wall.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
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