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I may have driven over this roundabout, the area is completely built over so I would imagine nothing is left, or is it??
Bunker cable connection box.
Bakelite Telefon 1939 Siemens Weidmann.
Wehrmacht Feldfernsprecher FF33 1935 originalfeldtelefon bakelit WW2.
Vill04 Carrefour St Arnoult-Cour Manables
1 x R617Signaling post for a telephone exchanges.
2 x Ringstands for 5cm KwK L/60.
Vill04 Carrefour St Arnoult-Cour Manables
An inland defence of the telephone system.
R617 Signalling post for a telephone exchanges.
There were two 5cm KwK L/60 guns.
5cm KwK L/60.
Vill04 Carrefour St Arnoult-Cour Manables
le Coteau Carrefour where there were two 5cm KwK guns covering the roundabout and the railway crossing and (yellow square) the site of where I think an R617 Signalling post for a telephone exchanges. There would have been a criss cross of military telephone and teleprinter cables running up and down the coast and many junction boxes were needed. This was a manned bunker with a large crew room, liaison room, switchboard, cable rolls & charger room for the batteries.
Carrefour 1945.
R617 Signalling post for a telephone exchanges.
Vill04 Carrefour St Arnoult-Cour Manables
Details of the defence (from the plan).
NOM: Carrefour St Arnoult.
No: C115.
OUVERAGE:
1, abri pour matériel et personnel.
2-3, encüvemeuts pour pic de 50mm.
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Nothing now remains.
R617 signalling post for telephone exchange.
Crew room.
Vill04 Carrefour St Arnoult-Cour Manables
This is a 5cm KwK L/60 and it shows how the guns may have looked.
5cm KwK L/60.
Ammunition.
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