Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
Square 2 showing where along the top of the ridge is.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
This is where we are aiming to walk.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
Leaving the two large Ammunition Depots and the Hospital bunkers behind we head out along the ridge.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
Path along the ridge.
Plan.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
Site plan of Site No.2 the walk along the ridge.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
Bunkers and trench systems showing up on this air photo. Yellow squares look like the sites of the 10men bunkers. There were at least four bunkers so forty men held this flank of the defence. With a very long trench system, 2cm Flak and a steal framed/wooden watch tower or fire control tower to watch over the area. The tower could also have been the first fire control tower to be used to control the guns.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
The first 10 Man bunker.
Some are hard to find and quite overgrown.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
The first 10 Man bunker.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
The second 10 Man bunker.
Easier to find.
Plan.
Plan of the 10men bunkers.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
The second 10 Man bunker.
This is the chimney for the bunker heating and also for cooking the crews food.
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Peeling potatoes.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
The second 10 Man bunker.
The bunkers entrance.
Plan for bunker for 10 men.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
The second 10 Man bunker.
Protected passage way entrance.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
The second 10 Man bunker.
One of the bunkers rooms. Bed fittings on the far wall.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
The second 10 Man bunker.
This wall has hooks on the roof and bolts in the wall for three tiers of bunk beds.
Plan for bunker for 10 men.
Bunker beds in store.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
The second 10 Man bunker.
A better look at the hooks and fittings.
Three tiers of bunk beds.
Plan of bunk beds.
A bunk bed.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
The second 10 Man bunker.
Chimney and behind the broken water tower.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
Water tower with a 2cm Flak on the roof.
Possibly a 2cm Flak 28 Oerlikon on the top of the tower.
Plan.
Water tower in 1953 and was shot out by American artillery in 1945.
French water tower at Eccousiville Air Ship Station, Normandy.
Possibly a 2cm Flak 28 Oerlikon.
2cm Flak 28 Oerlikon.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
The third 10men bunker.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
The third 10men bunker.
Plan for bunker for 10 men.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
The first Fire Control Post.
Four concrete bases of a fire control post.
Plan.
Plan of a large wooden fire control post.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
The first Fire Control Post.
The concrete base with a steel leg now cut off.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
The first Fire Control Post.
8P7 fire control post the type may have been used here. It could be made of timber or steel legs.
Gi301 Koblenz fire control wooden tower Gironde.
Lookout on a wooden FCP.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
Trench systems running along the back of the defence.
Plan.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
Fourth 10men bunker.
The S487 Fire Control Tower in the background.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
Fourth 10men bunker and its chimneys.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
Fourth 10men bunker.
Entrance area.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
Fourth 10men bunker.
Sealed up.
Plan.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
Fourth 10men bunker.
Date of construction.
Plan for bunker for 10 men.
Building this type of bunker.
Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 2 covers a walk along the ridge line.
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