StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage, K.V.D. 'B'. Nord Pas de Calais.

StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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StP M.K.B. Oye Plage.

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Batterie 8./M.A.A.204.
4 x M270.
1 x Hochleitstand.
1 x (M)134.
1 x R219.
1 x MG Stand.
1 x Vf1a.
2 x Vf2a.
1 x Michelmann.
5 x Feldm.
1 x Munitionsbunker.
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.

 

StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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Situated between Marck and Grand-Fort-Philippe.

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At les Dunes d'Oye a battery of four casemated guns .

Parking les Dunes d'Oye.

StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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StP M.K.B. Oye Plage

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Above is Wn Münster (yellow circle).
Below Wn M.K.B. Oye Plage. (Marine Kusten Battery).

StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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Hochleitstand (fire control post).

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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.

 

StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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Pieces of an M270 casemate.

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I believe rather than give the bunkers up to the Allies they blew them up.

Remains of an M270.

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StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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134 Ammunition bunker I.

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Note that the bunker has straight sides and is not rounded off. A West Wall 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.

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StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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882P7 marine armoured door.

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Parts of the original door are still in place.

This may be an 882P7 marine armoured door.

 

 

StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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A collapsed accommodation building.

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A light reinforced concrete structure, not a bunker.

How it may have looked.

The inside of the same style of building inside.

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StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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Hochleitstand.

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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.

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StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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Hochleitstand.

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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.

 

 

 

StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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Hochleitstand.

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A nice view of the top vision slits.

 

 

 

StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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Battery position.

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Fire control post and the three gun positions, number four is to the right off the picture.

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Horses on the beach.

 

StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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R219 casemate?

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The rear of the casemate.This states an R219??? so what is this an M219 is a large double height bunker with a turret on the top. This is not that. So what is it.

StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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R219 casemate?

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The front of the casemate.

This could be a plan of a 219 casemate Vf LAG stand for a 7.5cm PaK gun and the gun could be used either through the left or the right embrasure.

StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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Remains.

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The battery site was destroyed to stop it falling into the hands of the Canadians as they advanced.

StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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M270 Casemate.

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All the M270 casemates completely destroyed.

M270 at Battery Brommy, Cherbourg

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StP M.K.B. Oye Plage, Oye Plage.

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M270 casemate.

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Another with just the cap showing.

The other M270 at Brommy, Cherbourg.

M270 plan, gun room, two ammunition rooms and close combat defences to both rear entrances.

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Bomb Crater.

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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.

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Le Platier D'oye Reserve.

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Oye today swans and all.

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