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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.

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Vf bunker for 4.7cm Festung-Pak(t).

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R980 under construction.

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Odd Vf bunker.

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22 October 2014

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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)

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R680 under construction.

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1 x Vf bunker for 4.7cm Festung-Pak(t).

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R600b plan.

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1945 Geoportail

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Plan east of the River Yéres

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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.

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R502 twin group shelter.

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An odd (chimney or bunker?) is in Rue Sainte-Catherine.

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24 March 2014

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The Plage

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Criel Plage on the hill with the beach of Criel sur Mer.

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Rommel's Asparagus.

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FA Unterstand

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FA Unterstand in Rue Sainte-Catherine.

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1945 Geoportail

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FA Unterstand

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FA Unterstand in Rue Sainte-Catherine seen from the air. Notice the large that looks like a chimney?

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The chimney.

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There was a Vf67 with a Pz.T tank turret somewhere around here.

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7.5cm F.K.235(b) there were two, possibly one on each flank.

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FA Unterstand

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FA Unterstand this could be the chimney? or a Tobruk?

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The chimney.

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There were two R134's for ammunition storage, but could also be used as bunker accommodation.

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Ammunition.

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R502 twin group shelter

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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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Alarm.

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1945 Geoportail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MKB Bunkertour

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R502 twin group shelter

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R502, I have outlined the sides and rear wall that cannot be seen. The Tobruk defence shows up well in this 1945 photo.

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Tobruk.

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R600b

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In the Boulevard Jean Mermoz is this is stated to be an R600b, but it could also just be an Nr1694 type?

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Nr1694 plan.

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R600b has two rear entrances, where as an Nr1694 only one.

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5cm KwK Pak in a position very like the one here at Criel.

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5cm KwK Pak in a position very like the one here at Criel.

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5cm KwK L60 Pak.

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5cm KwK L60 Pak.

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1945 Geoportail

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South of the Town.

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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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1945 Geoportail

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Rond-Point de Verdun

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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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DEFE 2/2092 Report No 2 on German coastal defences in the Ostende/Dieppe area

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Rond-Point de Verdun

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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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WO 252/149 Northern France Check Reconnaissance

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The beach around 1944/5 with the barbed wire, tetrahedra and what looks like a floating mine box.

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Wiring.

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Improvised Beach Mine.

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DEFE 2/2092 Report No 2 on German coastal defences in the Ostende/Dieppe area

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Inundation

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The river was allowed to flood the inland and can be seen in this picture.

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1945 Geoportail

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West side

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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).

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R680 plan.

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7.5cm Pak 40.

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24 March 2014

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West side

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1945 Geoportail

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West side

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A possible Vf bunker for a 4.7cm Pak (t).

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Plan of an anti-tank ditch.

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24 March 2014

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West side

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Somewhere here was a Pak bunker

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24 March 2014

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West side

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There is a small concrete wall and a flint and brick wall behind???

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Vf bunker for a 4.7cm Pak (t).

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4.7cm Pak (t).

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4.7cm Pak (t).

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24 March 2014

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Vf Casemate for a 4.7cm Skoda Fortress Gun Arromanches Wn44

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This is possibly the Vf casemate type that was used here.

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770P4 type steel embrasure.

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Plan.

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Commanders viewing slit.

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24 March 2014

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R680

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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.

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R680 plan.

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7.5cm Pak 40.

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1945 Geoportail

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R680

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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.

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Bauform blocks and steel reinforcement.

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Bauform construction, two walls and then filled with steel reinforcement and concrete poured.

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24 March 2014

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