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Wn88 a standard small Wn armed with one 5cm KwK gun and a heavy machine gun in casemates.
Vf67 Tobruk.

Grenadier-Regiment 726 (Oberst Walter Korfe - HQ (CP) Château de Sully)
12 Kompanie HQ (CP) Grandcamp.
One of the platoons that defended here would have come from 12 Kompanie
1 x R667 casemate.
1 x Vf4a MG casemate.
2 x Vf58c Tobruks.
2 x Vf2a bunker.
1 x 5cm KwK L/42.
Vf58c Tobruk.
Vf58c Tobruk one of two Tobruks in the local defence, this one covers the north sector
Vf58c Tobruk
Vf58c Tobruk
Vf58c Tobruk.
Vf8 Tobruk the entrance into the Tobruk which may have had a trench leading from the other defences to this Tobruk.
Vf8 Tobruk.
Inside Tobruk.
Tobruk plan.
Vf58c Tobruk the view north.
5cm le.Gr.W.203(f) Mortar.
5cm le.Gr.W.203(f) Mortar.
R667 Casemate for a 5cm KwK L/42 rather bashed but still looking a bunker.
R667 casemate.
5cm KwK in a casemate.
5cm KwK L/42.
R667 Casemate with a very long flanking wall to protect the embrasure and gun from direct fire from the seaward side.
R667 casemate.
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.
Destroyed bunker at Neville.
R667 casemate gun room with maybe part of the gun in place??
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.
The gun an 5cm KwK L/42.
R667 casemate the gun room looking north up the coast.
R667 casemate rear showing its protected rear entrance.
Plan.
The rear entrance.
R667 casemate
R667 casemate looking onward to the Vf4a casemate.
Vf4a casemate, a machine gun bunker.
Plan.
Plan.
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).

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.
Maxim 08.
Belt fed ammunition.
Maxim 08.
MG.34..
MG.42.
Machine gunner in a casemate.
Vf4a casemate the view the bunker would have had. There was NO anti-tank gun that covered this portion of the beach??
Vf4a casemate
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.
Vf4a how I see it with its small ammunition room added on the back. Its very overgrown and cannot be looked into on my visits.
Ammunition boxes.
Brass cartridge cases.

Unknown structure, possibly a water reservoir. Wassertank.
Vf2a group shelter photographed by SD in 1999 and it was buried after his visit.
Vf2a group shelter.
Vf58c Tobruk the second in the fish factory.
Vf58c Tobruk plan.
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