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Few of these photos are mine, unfortunately. So I have fall back on Google and Geoportail.
This was a small in number but large in area Wn. About a Kilometre of frontage. It covers both sides of the Yéres River. There may be more bunkers to be found here so an interesting place.
Vf bunker for 4.7cm Festung-Pak(t).
R980 under construction.
Odd Vf bunker.
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1 x Vf bunker for 4.7cm Festung-Pak(t).
2 x R134
2 x R502
2 x R600b
1 x R680 under construction.
5 x Feldm
1 x Vf67
2 x Pz.T.
2 x 5cm KwK
2 x 7.5cm F.K.235(b)
R680 under construction.
1 x Vf bunker for 4.7cm Festung-Pak(t).
R600b plan.
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Plan
east of the River Yéres
Plan of the east of the River Yéres. There may have been an anti-tank wall to the south & west, a barbed wire defence and then trenches. Inside there seems to be some bunkers under construction and an R600b for a 5cm KwK may have been installed there. An R502 is still in a garden in Rue des Embruns. An unterstand with an odd (chimney or bunker?) is in Rue Sainte-Catherine. Then an R600b for a 5cm KwK Pak is in Boulevard Jean Mermoz.
R502 twin group shelter.
An odd (chimney or bunker?) is in Rue Sainte-Catherine.
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The Plage
Criel Plage on the hill with the beach of Criel sur Mer.
Rommel's Asparagus.
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FA Unterstand
FA Unterstand in Rue Sainte-Catherine.
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FA Unterstand
FA Unterstand in Rue Sainte-Catherine seen from the air. Notice the large that looks like a chimney?
The chimney.
There was a Vf67 with a Pz.T tank turret somewhere around here.
7.5cm F.K.235(b) there were two, possibly one on each flank.
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FA Unterstand
FA Unterstand this could be the chimney? or a Tobruk?
The chimney.
There were two R134's for ammunition storage, but could also be used as bunker accommodation.
Ammunition.
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R502 twin group shelter
R502 is still in a garden in Rue des Embruns. The arrows show the size of it and also there is/was a Tobruk defence on the left side.
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details
Alarm.
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R502 twin group shelter
R502, I have outlined the sides and rear wall that cannot be seen. The Tobruk defence shows up well in this 1945 photo.
Tobruk.
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R600b
In the Boulevard Jean Mermoz is this is stated to be an R600b, but it could also just be an Nr1694 type?
Nr1694 plan.
R600b has two rear entrances, where as an Nr1694 only one.
5cm KwK Pak in a position very like the one here at Criel.
5cm KwK Pak in a position very like the one here at Criel.
5cm KwK L60 Pak.
5cm KwK L60 Pak.
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South of the Town.
The Boulevard Jean Mermoz ringstand is marked as an R600b and to its right along the trench line, it looks like possibly another?
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Rond-Point de Verdun
The area at Rond-Point de Verdun. This maybe the start of a defence anti-tank ditch or just a water drainage culvert.
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Rond-Point de Verdun
Anti-tank ditch or just a water drainage culvert. Even as a culvert it would make a very good anti-tank ditch.
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The beach around 1944/5 with the barbed wire, tetrahedra and what looks like a floating mine box.
Wiring.
Improvised Beach Mine.
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Inundation
The river was allowed to flood the inland and can be seen in this picture.
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West side
The West side of Criel plage. This is a smaller defence but an R680 was being constructed to hold a 7.5cm Pak 40. By the beach a Vf bunker for 4.7cm Festung-Pak(t).
R680 plan.
7.5cm Pak 40.
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West side
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West side
A possible Vf bunker for a 4.7cm Pak (t).
Plan of an anti-tank ditch.
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West side
Somewhere here was a Pak bunker
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West side
There is a small concrete wall and a flint and brick wall behind???
Vf bunker for a 4.7cm Pak (t).
4.7cm Pak (t).
4.7cm Pak (t).
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Vf Casemate for a 4.7cm Skoda Fortress Gun Arromanches Wn44
This is possibly the Vf casemate type that was used here.
770P4 type steel embrasure.
Plan.
Commanders viewing slit.
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R680
This is about where the large R680 casemate was being constructed. You can see the red lines where the gun could fire. Deadly.
An R680 could take a range of guns that were available from a 5cm Pak to the 7.62cm Pak(r) but also a field gun could be placed inside and there were two field guns here at Pen02 7.5cm F.K.235(b) type.
R680 plan.
7.5cm Pak 40.
Loading.
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R680
Air photo of the R680 casemate under construction and it looks like it is being built in Formstein, a form of concrete block inner and outer wall, in the gap steel reinforcement rods were placed and then filled with concrete.
Bauform blocks and steel reinforcement.
Bauform construction, two walls and then filled with steel reinforcement and concrete poured.
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