Kabelschaltstelle Banville

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All the photos of the Kabelschaltstelle are kindly sent to me by Jean-Peirre Gabriel.
There are many Kabelschaltstelle on the Atlantikwall, we find them all along the coast. They were the connections for the German military telephone system.

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The road to Banville the D12

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Behind the tree on the right is a Kabelschaltstelle which connected cables linking the Wn's along the beach to a HQ to the rear and Artillerie batteries in the area.

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MPII 1/87/7 Archive

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German Battle Map of the possible route of the cable?

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This is the German artillery map for the Courseulles area. An artillery forward observer by using a field telephone could call down artillery fire on pre-determined targets, from Artillerie in the rear areas. The pre-determined targets were the red circles & squares named Oldenburg, Nordheim & Mainz. The batteries of guns were 3/989 batterie & 2/989 batterie, of 4 x 12.2cm sFH396(f) each with their Schwere-Artillerie-Abteilung 989 CP: at Revieres. Remembering that although I have plotted to the best I can. The artillery was moved around at a moments notice and were in field positions and well camouflaged. This is what caught out the Americans on Omaha beach. The batteries were not seen by air reconnaissance, to their cost. So I may not be as accurate as I wish to be.

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As far as I can see outside of Revieres may have been the artilleries HQ marked with a flag and 989 so another cable would have probably linked the batteries, the HQ & the sea front Wn's.

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12.2cm sFH396(f) captured French pieces.

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12.2cm sFH396(f) captured French pieces.

Kabelschaltstelle Banville

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Jean-Peirre Gabriel.

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The concrete shape is designed to allow air to pass through an opening venturi and create a flow of fresh air into the box. On this one there does not seem to have been a Venturi properly added.

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This is how they should look.

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The venturi design.

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Another in Haute-Normandy.

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Plan of a Kabelschaltstelle this part is sunk into the ground.

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Armoured cable.

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A piece of armoured cable I found many years ago.

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Jean-Peirre Gabriel.

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StP 356 Auderville Laye eBatterie

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This is the kabelschaltstelle manhole cover for StP354 Casernments d'Auderville Laye at the Auderville Laye eBatterie. Railway or Eisenbahn batterie, you can see on the left side a bracket to lock the cover open.

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Jean-Peirre Gabriel.

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Man hole cover now missing.

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Jean-Peirre Gabriel.

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Man hole cover now missing.

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Jean-Peirre Gabriel.

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Steel steps down into the chamber. Inside the chamber cables would have come in and be joined up to boxes inside.

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Connection box.

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Cabling

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A plan of how a cable chamber connections may have looked like.

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I-IS/SHEAF/635/1 G-2 Records 21st December - 27th April 1944. Martian Report.

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Allied plan of a Kabelschaltstelle.

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I-IS/SHEAF/635/1 G-2 Records 21st December - 27th April 1944. Martian Report.

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Weekly Intelligence Report of specially graded information about the Neptune area, issued with the corresponding T.I.S. MARTIAN REPORTS (see Roll No. 52) from No.75 onwards, but on a very restricted distribution and to Intelligence Staffs only.
This is where the above information came from.

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