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

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Vf67 Tobruk.

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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.

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Vf58c Tobruk.

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Vf58c Tobruk one of two Tobruks in the local defence, this one covers the north sector

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Vf58c Tobruk

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Vf58c Tobruk

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Vf58c Tobruk.

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11 May 2008

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Vf8 Tobruk the entrance into the Tobruk which may have had a trench leading from the other defences to this Tobruk.

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Vf8 Tobruk.

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Inside Tobruk.

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Tobruk plan.

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11 May 2008

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Vf58c Tobruk the view north.

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5cm le.Gr.W.203(f) Mortar.

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5cm le.Gr.W.203(f) Mortar.

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R667 Casemate for a 5cm KwK L/42 rather bashed but still looking a bunker.

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R667 casemate.

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5cm KwK in a casemate.

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5cm KwK L/42.

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R667 Casemate with a very long flanking wall to protect the embrasure and gun from direct fire from the seaward side.

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R667 casemate.

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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.

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Destroyed bunker at Neville.

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11 May 2008

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R667 casemate gun room with maybe part of the gun in place??

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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.

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This is the guns base fitted into a ringstand and the gun slots onto the centre post.

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The gun an 5cm KwK L/42.

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R667 casemate the gun room looking north up the coast.

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R667 casemate rear showing its protected rear entrance.

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Plan.

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The rear entrance.

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R667 casemate

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R667 casemate looking onward to the Vf4a casemate.

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Vf4a casemate, a machine gun bunker.

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Plan.

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Plan.

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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).

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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.

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Maxim 08.

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Belt fed ammunition.

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Maxim 08.

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MG.34..

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MG.42.

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Machine gunner in a casemate.

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Vf4a casemate the view the bunker would have had. There was NO anti-tank gun that covered this portion of the beach??

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Vf4a casemate

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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.

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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.

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Ammunition boxes.

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Brass cartridge cases.

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Unknown structure, possibly a water reservoir. Wassertank.

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SD 1999

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Vf2a group shelter photographed by SD in 1999 and it was buried after his visit.

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Vf2a group shelter.

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SD 1999

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Vf58c Tobruk the second in the fish factory.

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Vf58c Tobruk plan.

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13 October 2018

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