Les Iles Anglo-Normandes, Alderney.
W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof',

Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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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.

Map.

Searchlight.

Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Ausboustand karte Alderney.

Ausboustand karte Alderney.

 

 

Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Larger plan of area.

We did not visit the right side but we walked the path to the left following the red arrows.
1 x 60cm Searchlight bunker.
3 x Vf personnel bunkers.
1 x 5cm Automatic Mortar bunker.
2 x Mortars.
1 x OP.
1 x Tank Turret.
Trench system.

R633 5cm automatic mortar bunker.

Tank turret.

Machine guns.

Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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MP5 Türkenburg with its R670 down by the beach and the curtain wall running up the hill to the main Fort Tourgis. To its right of the white day marker is the searchlight position.

 

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The searchlight bunker on the side of the hill with two more bunkers set into a small quarry (red arrow).

Alderney, W 2 Wn Müllerhof

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In the quarry the first Vf bunker.

Plan.

Vf plan.

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Vf bunker passage way with a niche possibly for communications??

Vf plan.

 

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Vf bunker looking into the bunker with a steel sheet roof covered over with concrete.

Vf plan.

Vf elevation.

 

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Another niche still with all its wood intact.

Vf plan.

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Second Vf bunker.

Plan.

Vf plan.

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Second Vf bunker entrance showing that there should have been a heavy door and frame set into the concrete..

Vf plan.

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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No.778 nice to see its number still in place.

Vf plan.

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Second Vf bunker inside and notice a different style of roof.

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Two niches on the inner wall.

 

 

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Looking out of the quarry.

 

Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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The view over the top of the searchlight bunker at Fort Clonque W 3 Wn 'Steinfeste'.

 

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Searchlight bunker.

Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Searchlight bunker entrance, a set of steps down into a passage..

Searchlight bunker plan.

 

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Searchlight bunker inside looking left.

Plan.

60cm searchlight.

Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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One of the searchlights near Fort Essex was just like this one.
Allied photograph

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Inside looking right with the searchlight storage room on the right.

Plan.

Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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The limited view out on the right due to undergrowth.

Plan.

Searchlight.

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looking back into the centre.

Plan.

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Searchlight storage & maintenance area.

Plan.

60cm searchlight.

Plan of a 150cm searchlight.

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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The view back.

Plan.

 

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Storage niches with the wood still in place.

Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Steps back out

Plan.

Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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Alderney, W 2 Wn 'Müllerhof'

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On the side we did not visit was an M19 Mortar Bunker R633.
An M19 mortar could be fired automatically and adjustable speeds and also manually. Either way it was a very effective weapon. The range here would have allowed a 'stream' or 'shower' of mortar bombs to fall on a predetermined map reference laid down in the a fire plan. The forward observer would call the bunker either on a field telephone or by radio and give them their targets. Usually in these cases a code name and that was an area the enemy would be attacking. There would be several coded areas around the Wn defence and usually say girls names or local German cities or towns. Anything memorable to the soldiers fighting here.

Plan of the R663 at StP09 Ravenoville, Normandy.

M19 mortar with crew.

M19 mortar steel turret plan.

M19 mortar steel turret 428P01.

M19 mortar ammunition racks.

5cm mortar.

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