StP M.K.B. Oye Plage.
Batterie 8./M.A.A.204.
4 x M270 casemates.
1 x R219 Doppelschartenstand.
1 x Hochleitstand FCP.
1 x (M)134.
1 x Barracks. .
1 x Feldmäßig.
1 x Michelmannstand.
2 Vf2a bunker.
4 x 15cm S.K.C/28.
4 x 7.5cm Flak M33(f).
4 x 2cm Flak 28.
1 x 7.5cm Lag.
M270 casemate.
15cm S.K.C/28.
Situated between Marck and Grand-Fort-Philippe.
At les Dunes d'Oye a battery of four casemated guns.
Parking les Dunes d'Oye.
StP M.K.B. Oye Plage
Above: is Wn Münster (yellow circle). Not covered.
Below: Wn M.K.B. Oye Plage. (Marine Kusten Battery).
StP M.K.B. Oye Plage
Wn M.K.B. Oye Plage. (Marine Kusten Battery).
Hochleitstand (fire control post).
Fire control post for battery 8./M.A.A.204 (Marine Artillerie Abteilung) with good views over the coast and the sea controlled the fire of four 15cm S.K.C/28.
4 x M270 casemates with a 120degree ark of fire.120degree.
15cm S.K.C/28 pivot mounted guns.
Pieces of an M270 casemate.
I believe rather than give the bunkers up to the Allies they blew them up.
Remains of an M270.
Plan.
M134 Ammunition bunker.
Note that the bunker has straight sides and is not rounded off. A Westwall bunker design and later bunkers would have been rounded off.
134 ammunition bunker plan of how I see it?
The blue line is the extent of the West Wall and purple the Maginot line.
Plan.
882P7 marine armoured door.
Parts of the original door are still in place.
This may be an 882P7 marine armoured door.
882P7 Marine armoured door.
This picture taken in 2018 and it looks very much the same..
134 ammunition bunker plan of how I see it?
A collapsed accommodation building.
A light reinforced concrete structure, not a bunker.
How it may have looked.
The inside of the same style of building inside.
Plan.
Hochleitstand.
Set behind the gun line which is situated on a sand dune, this fire control post built to look like a church tower had to be able to look over and in front of the guns and out to sea at its targets.
Just before its inevitable capture the foundations at the front were under mined to allow it to collapse, but as you see it now leans like Pisa.
Plan.
Hochleitstand.
The trees have grown around it and hard to see from a distance..
Hochleitstand.
Walking around the side and over the main control room under the Hochleitstand.
Plan of the FCP.
Hochleitstand.
The set of steps are the only way into the control room below.
Plan.
FCP main command post under the tower. Two entrances, one from above and one at ground level.
Plotting room.
Hochleitstand.
The 434P01 rear armoured door still nicely in place.
434P01 door.
Hochleitstand.
The 434P01 rear armoured door a real piece of thick plate.
434P01 door.
Hochleitstand.
The rear armoured door front view with the viewing slit and door bolt.
434P01 door.
Hochleitstand.
Coming through the door and the first anti-room where a set of iron stair case went to the first floor continuing to the top.
You can see the stairs on the elevation.
Hochleitstand.
The first floor room with windows each side but none facing forward.
Ground floor.
Hochleitstand.
Looking up through the stair well to the first floor.
First floor.
Hochleitstand.
Looking up the stair well to the top. Just a ladder needed.
Elevation.
Hochleitstand.
The view up the tower and steel reinforcement that has been deliberately left to hook camouflage nets to it.
Camouflaged bunkers.
Hochleitstand.
The view up the front face.
Hochleitstand.
Designed to look like a local church tower to add to its camouflage effect, but as you can see it did not stop the Canadians from firing at it by the looks of the many hits received.
Hochleitstand.
A nice view of the top vision slits.
Hochleitstand.
A picture taken post war.
It even looks as though it had a clock face painted on.
Battery position.
Fire control post and the gun positions, number four is to the right off the picture.
Plan.
Horses on the beach.
15cm S.K.C/28.
R219 casemate?
The rear of the casemate now turned into a bird hide.
R219 casemate?
The front of the casemate looking into one of the embrasures.
This could be a plan of a R219 casemate Vf LAG stand for a 7.5cm LAG gun and the gun could be used either through the left or the right embrasure. LAG (anti landing gun).
Plan.
M270 Casemate remains possibly Turm 2.
The batterie site was destroyed to stop it falling into the hands of the Canadians as they advanced.
M270 Casemate remains roof section upside down possibly Turm 2.
Casemate roof showing the reinforcement rods and the steel roof..
M270 Casemate Turm 3?.
All the M270 casemates completely destroyed.
M270 at Battery Brommy, Cherbourg
Plan.
M270 casemate Turm 3?.
This one looks as though the walls blew out and the roof collapsed in.
The other M270 at Brommy, Cherbourg.
M270 casemate Turm 3?.
Closeup of the top of the embrasure.
M270 plan, gun room, two ammunition rooms and close combat defences to both rear entrances.
Bomb Crater.
Looks like a bomb crater, most batteries were bombed or shelled relentlessly after D-day to save infantry casualties when they were attacked.
Halifax.
Lancaster.
3D Plan.
A lovely plan kindly lent buy Kurt from MKB Bunkertour.
Plan.
A lovely plan kindly lent buy Kurt from MKB Bunkertour.
Le Platier D'oye Reserve.