Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège, K.V.U.Gr Riva-Bella, K.V.Gr Caen

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Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège

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Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège

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2nd Grenadier-Regiment 736.
1 x Vf/Skoda.
1 x H634.
1 x H667.
2 x Vf/Gr. W.
3 x Vf58c Tobruk's.
2 x 5cm Ringstand.
1 x Vf/MG.
1 x 4.7cm Pak 36(t).
2 x 5cm KwK L/60.

R634.

R667.

Vf/Skoda.

Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège.

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Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège

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If you are coming from the ferry port cross over the lock gate bridge (very tight fit for a medium to large car) and drive out to the R634 bunker with the dome on the top. Then back to the light house where a 5cm KwK Pak was situated(I have not visited this yet), then take the Chemin De La Pointe du Sage. On the right is a large Tobruk and then a thatched house on the left a small Tobruk and on to the sea front and the R667 set into the bank.

Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège.

Kew NA 1941 PRU 20.11.41 F/14.0

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Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège

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Photo Reconnaissance Unit picture taken in 1941 showing the pointe, river estuary and the canal very clearly.

A PRU Spitfire.

Cameras being placed into a Spitfire.

Medmenham interpreters working on air photos.

Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège.

A 1944 30 A.S.U. Photo.

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Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège

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The inner harbour just after the lock.
The port was to be taken by the Commandos on D-Day, they started to attack and started to get bogged down in a lot of street fighting. They disengaged and continued on to Benouville and the bridge. It took the Beach Defence group and some Churchill & Sherman AVRE's to clear the area the next day.

Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège.

10 October 2014

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Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège French Dreadnought Courbet

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Named after Admiral Amédée Courbet she was sailed to England and taken over by the Free French forces and just after D-Day was either sailed or towed across the channel and sunk in shallow water off Ouistreham as a part of the Mulberry harbour on Sword Beach. The Germans expended a lot of energy on trying to sink her, the guns of Mont Canisy and Houlgate, also a mini submarine attack.

French Dreadnought Courbet

Settled on the sea bed off Ouistreham.

German midget submarine.

Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège.

10 October 2014

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Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège Number 23.

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There were probably many of these bollards both sides of the canal to tie up ships. First a cannon was set with a canon ball set in its open barrel and then made into a sand mould. The barrel removed and old melted down iron poured into the mould. And a solid cast iron bollard is made.

Napoleon.

Vaisseau de 80 Canons

French ships cannon firing.

Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège.

09 March 2013

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Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège Vf/GrW 80mm mortar Tobruk.

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This mortar would easily cover the whole of the Wn07 defence.

Vf/GrW 80mm mortar Tobruk. Vf61a?

80mm mortar.

MT - mortar Tobruk.
T - Tobruk.
Garages.

Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège.

09 March 2013

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Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siège Vf/GrW 80mm mortar Tobruk.

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A large Tobruk so an 80mm mortar could be used in safety inside it with 360deg it could cover a very large area. Certain areas would be pre marked on maps, plans and also sometimes painted on the rim of the Tobruk. Then if one of his platoon needed help, he could just call him on a field telephone and ask for support . If boats came in they could call White B and the mortars could fire on that square, if the infantry had reached the beach, then Black 2 could be called down.