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StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
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Area 4 covers the flak nord site. showing where the Flak Nord defence was situated in large open emplacements with crew and ammunition below. There is also a large concrete wall, either a sand wall (I will explain later) or an artillery butts to fire into??.
Flak.
7.5cm Flak M17/34(f).
Rangefinder.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
This is the area of ‘Flak Nord’ I have numbered the positions to make it easier.
1 - OB Flak.
2 - OB Flak
3 - Fl242 Flak emplacement.
4 - OB Flak.
5 - OB Flak (destroyed).
2 x Tobruk´s one an observation type.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
French Military boundary stone.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
I presume a sand loading wall. These were to allow sand to be removed from the beach and loaded onto trains to build defences and maybe used the Lorient U-Boat pens.
Lorient U-Boat Pens.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
Sand wall loading bay at Gatteville.
Horse drawn tipper trailer.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
Sand loading wall.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
Sand loading wall.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
Barbed wire on the grass, part of the wired defence and mine fields.
Wire.
Planting mines.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
Plan of the Flak Nord site. 1. was destroyed post war due either to artillery or bombing practice. The site may have been used as a training target.
Fl424 Medium and Light Flak emplacement.
Fl424 bunker.
Fl424 elevation.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
1. OB Flak emplacement.
Plan.
7.5cm Flak M17/34(f).
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
1. OB Flak emplacement.
7.5cm Flak M17/34(f).
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
How the site could have looked. With here four captured 7.5cm Flak M17/34(f) ex French guns.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
2. OB Flak emplacement.
Flak emplacement for a French 7.5cm Flak M17/34(f) Flak gun.
Plan.
7.5cm Flak M17/34(f).
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
2. OB Flak emplacement.
7.5cm Flak M17/34(f).
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
2. OB Flak emplacement. .
The narrow entrance into the emplacement.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
2. OB Flak emplacement.
Note the hinge pin and the slight recess for a wooden door to close off the entrance.
Communications.
Kriegsmarine Flak Gunners patch..
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
2. OB Flak emplacement.
Floor of the Flak emplacement, no ready ammunition spaces around the gun, that is unusual for most Flak emplacements.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
2. OB Flak emplacement.
The view from above. No ready ammunition, no communications cable inlets?? more questions than answers.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
3.Fl242 Flak emplacement.
Fl242 emplacement for medium and light Flak.
This is a proper German Flak emplacement with ready ammunition spaces that can be seen around the outside wall and the larger square crew communications space where communications cables would come in from a command post and relay height, wind, aircraft speed, etc.
Plan.
Fl424 Medium and Light Flak emplacement.
Fl424 Medium and Light Flak emplacement.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
3. Fl242 Flak emplacement.
Fl242 emplacement for medium and light Flak.
Fl424 Medium and Light Flak emplacement.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
3. Fl242 Flak emplacement.
Fl242 emplacement for medium and light Flak
Fl242 plan, underneath is a two roomed bunker with an entrance and gas lock, a crew room and an ammunition room.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
Vf58c there are at least ten Tobruk's on the whole site and two were here.
Vf58c.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
Vf58c Tobruk crew room space.
Plan.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
Vf58c Tobruk
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
4. OB Flak emplacement.
Plan.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
4. OB Flak emplacement.
It looks as though extra concrete has been added to protect the seaward side of the emplacement.
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Plan of an S487 Fire Control Post.
7.5cm Flak M17/34(f)..
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
4. OB Flak emplacement.
Flak crews badge.
Kriegsmarine Flak gunners patch.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
4. OB Flak emplacement.
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US B17's bombing Lorient.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
4. OB Flak emplacement..
There is another cutaway for a door to be fitted and the hinge is still in place.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
5. OB Flak emplacement.
This one was damaged either in the war or before 1950's when the first was destroyed.
Plan.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
5. OB Flak emplacement.
Hold fast for the anti-aircraft gun.
ranging.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
5. OB Flak emplacement.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
The second Vf58c Tobruk.
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StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
The second Vf58c Tobruk.
This one is modified so that it can be used as an observation post whilst the second crew man can fire his machine gun.
Vf58c observation .
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
The second Vf58c Tobruk.
This one is modified so that it can be used as an observation post whilst the second crew man can fire his machine gun.
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673 Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
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