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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.
Range of E Batteries.
StP180 Schwarztal, Noirbernes
StP180 Schwarztal, Noirbernes
Oberleutnant Horn commanded about 170 men split between the two E guns and the flak/defence, ground/defence & railway.
Railway K 5 gun.
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.
Wellblech to the south of the village.
2cm Flak 30.
R600b 5cm KwK Pak.
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K 5 Railway gun
K 5 on its on its Vögel turntable.
Vögel Turntable plan.
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SK Ammunition 2
The ammunition bunker can be viewed from the road. The first turntable and its ammunition bunker is hdden from the road in the valley.
My plan of the SK Ammunition bunkers.
Powder storage.
Shell store.
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SK Ammunition 2
Very large air vents
200mm vent.
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SK Ammunition 2
This is the lorry unloading entrance, the other side would have been the railway dock for ammunition trains to unload.
SK Ammunition bunker.
Moving ammunition from bunker to the gun.
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SK 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.
Ammunition train.
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K 5 railway gun
Loading.
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Unterstand
Small bunker set into the hedge and there is another hidden to the right and behind. Also another on the right. These could be crew quarters or the Loco drivers.
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Unterstand
Entrance.
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Unterstand
Not a steel door but I would think a wooden door and frame.
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Unterstand
Inside with a window/escape out the rear.
StP180 Schwarztal, Noirbernes
Unterstand
Another bunker 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.
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Unterstand
This one in with the horses.
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Railway Line
This is the bed of the that would take the first gun and the first ammunition bunker trains.
The multiple of railway lines.
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The Locomotive garage is still there and was used post war as a barn and now just standing.
Locomotive garage plan.
Diesel engine shunter.
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Batterie of 15.5cm guns would have been in their position on the hill to the right.
StP180 Schwarztal, Noirbernes
A 15.5cm s.F.H414 (f) gun battery position.
StP180 Schwarztal, Noirbernes
Turm 4
I think this is Turm 4 of the 15.5cm Howitzer batterie.
Open emplacement could be like this one.
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Turm 3
Just a glimpse off this gun emplacement.
StP180 Schwarztal, Noirbernes
A 15.5cm s.F.H414 (f) gun battery position.
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Three of the open emplacements up on the hill.
Batterie firing.
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Wellblech bunker
To the south east is this Wellblech bunker.
Plan of a Wellblech.
details
A corrugated heavy tin hut with a concrete outer cover.
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