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Railway batterie E 765 sitting in a valley lined up directly with Dover. These railway guns were brought here to seal off the channel to allow German forces to land on England in Operation Seelöw 1940/41. Two turntables were built with two large ammunition bunkers. Many defence and small bunkers littered around the area and its own Flak Gruppe of four 2cm Flak and three 5cm KwK Pak guns.

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Range of E Batteries.

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Oberleutnant Horn commanded about 170 men split between the two E guns and the flak/defence, ground/defence & railway.

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Railway K 5 gun.

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4 x 15.5cm s.F.H.414(f).

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E.Bttr.765 & Ger.Bttr765.
[E.Bttr.765 - Railway guns. Ger.Battr.765 - 15.5cm Howitzers.]
2 x Geschützstellung (open emplacements) for the E. Battr.
4 x Flak bunkers.
3 x R600b 5cm gun open emplacement.
8 x Wellblech
1 x Zisterne
5 x Vf's bunkers.
4 x 2cm Flak 30
3 x 5cm KwK L/42.
2 x 2cm KwK 38.
2 x 28cm K5 Eisenbahn Guns.
4 x 15.5cm s.F.H.414(f).
2 x 10cm F.K.30(t).
On the hill to the north were more positions, a barracks, Flak, ammunition and Wellblech bunker.
Behind the village Flak magazine, Wellblech, Wasser bunker, a concrete road.

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Wellblech to the south of the village.

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2cm Flak 30.

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R600b 5cm KwK Pak.

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K 5 on its on Vögel turntable.

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Vögel Turntable plan.

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Vf Ammunition 2
The ammunition bunker can be viewed from the road. The first turntable is hidden and overgrown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MKB Bunkertour's plan of the ammunition bunker.

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My plan of the SK Ammunition bunkers.

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Powder storage.

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Shell store.

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Vf Ammunition 2
Very large air vents

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200mm vent.

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Vf Ammunition 2
This is the is the opposite entrance to the railway dock for ammunition trains to unload.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The view down the centre with ammunition rooms off either side, an overhead rail would carry the ammunition out of the rooms and to a trolley to be taken to the gun.
When captured the engineers would fill the bunkers with all the ammunition lying around and blow the lot up. That is why there is so much internal damage.

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SK Ammunition bunker.

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Moving ammunition from bunker to the gun.

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Repairing to lift a shell.

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Ammunition storage.

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Moving ammunition from bunker.

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How the ammunition was moved in and out of the bunker.

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Vf Ammunition 2
Entrance.

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Vf Ammunition 2
The view from the road looking west down the valley, this is where the ammunition trains would have run along to the bunker.

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Ammunition train.

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K 5 railway gun from "Illustrated Record of German Army Equipment 1939 - 1945 Vol. II Artillery part 1". WO 208/2985.

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Small Vf shelter set into the hedge and there are several around here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MKB Bunkertour's plan of the FA shelter.

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Small Vf shelter.
Entrance.

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Small Vf shelter.
Not a steel door but I would think a wooden door with frame.

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Small Vf shelter.
Inside with a window/escape out to the rear.

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Another FA shelter across the road. Most of the bunkers around here were either small square type boxes or Wellblech bunkers. These are all early types built before 1943.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MKB Bunkertour's plan.

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Another FA shelter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another FA shelter.

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FA shelter.
This one is in with the horses.

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Railway Line
This is the bed of the railway line to the guns and the ammunition bunkers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MKB Bunkertour's plan of the railway engine shed. This may still be near the above picture, but also may have been removed?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A plan of where the engine shed was. The white arrow is showing the view from he top picture.

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The multiple of railway lines.

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The engine shed is still there in this photo and was used post war as a barn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another Google picture August 2013.

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Locomotive garage plan.

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Diesel engine shunter.

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The engine shed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inside.

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Locomotive garage plan.

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Steam engine shunter.

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A steam engine pulling a K5 gun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inside.

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A batterie of 15.5cm guns would have been in their position on the hill to the right.

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1949 air photo, the trench line and four emplacements show up well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A 15.5cm s.F.H414 (f) gun battery position.

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I think this is Turm 4 of the 15.5cm Howitzer batterie.

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Open emplacement could be like this one.

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Turm 3
Just a glimpse off this gun emplacement.

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A 15.5cm s.F.H414 (f) gun battery position.

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Three of the open emplacements up on the hill.

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Batterie firing.

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Wellblech bunker
To the south east is this Wellblech bunker.

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Plan of a Wellblech.

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A corrugated heavy tin hut with a concrete outer cover.

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Flak/defence position up on the hill, this one held at least one gun.
There were 4 x 2cm Flak 30's.

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2cm Flak 30.

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Field defence position up on the Rte du Bedat.
This is an R600b for a 5cm KwK.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plan of a R600b for a 5cm KwK.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IGNF 1949 showing where two of the R600b's are and maybe a third.

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R600b for a 5cm KwK.

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5cm KwK L42 model.

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