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Luftwaffe station "Bulldogge".
11./Luft.Nachr.Rgt.52
3 x Freya radar positions.
2 x R515 machine gun bunkers.
2 x V229 Würzburg radar sockets.
2 x R502 twin group bunkers.
4 x Vf2a small shelters.
7 x Flakstellung.
5 x Maschinenbunker
8 x Feldm shelters.
4 x 3cm Flak 30.
3 x 2cm Flak 38.
2 x Fu.SE 65 Würzburg Riese radars.
1 x Fu.MG 401 LZ Freya radar.
1 x Freya Fahrstuhl radar.
1 x Fu.MG 450 Freya radar.
5cm KwK in an R600e
Freya radar.
Fu.SE 65 Würzburg.
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StP Ste-Cécile
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This is StP Ste-Cecile the green circle. The red circle FuMG Bulldogge.
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StP Ste-Cécile
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5cm KwK R600 emplacement.
On the corner of Boulevard de Sainte-Cécile & de Lille. This gun would have had a 360° traverse and the whole area would have been open ground. The gun position was part of the greater StP Ste-Cécile and that covered Buldogge's rear flank.
R600e ringstand with a 5cm KwK Pak gun.
R600 ringstand.
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5cm KwK R600 emplacement.
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There are two types of R600e, one is just the ringstand as at here and also some have underneath a bunker with a crew room and an ammunition room.
R600e ringstand.
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1946/7 Geoportail
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5cm R600e ringstand
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The ringstand shows up well on this 1947 air photo.
R600e ringstand.
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5cm R600b ringstand
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Here is the R600e with its 5cm KwK 38, as you can see it covers the whole area at the rear of the StP.
There would have been a road block somewhere here.
FuMG Bulldogge, Ste-Cécile
AIR 40/1667
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AIR 40/1667
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An RAF air photo of the area of Ste-Cécile. It shows the Bulldogge radar and another now in the built up area of the town.
V229 Würzburg socket plan.
V229 Würzburg socket.
V229 socket with a Würzburg FuMO 214 at Arromanches.
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Geoportail 1946
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The area of the StP and Bulldogge
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Looking at the 1946 air photos, showing part of StP Ste-Cécile. This is about the area of FuMG Bulldogge. We could only visit a small part of Bulldogge on this visit.
R02 twin group shelter.
R515 MG Casemate.
One of the two 'L' shaped shelters..
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Geoportail 1947
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This is about half of Bulldogge and the half we visited in early 2020. Several Vf2a shelters, an R501 twin group bunker, a Machinery/Kitchen bunker, an R515 machine gun bunker and three buildings. This area was known as Luftwaffe station "Bulldogge" and the 11./Luft.Nachr.Rgt.52 were here in 1944.
Radar screen from a drawing by RAF intelligence interpreters.
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Bulldogge
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The ground level has been bulldozed away since the war and on the right is possibly the main entrance into the camp. Its built on sand dunes.
2cm Flak 38 AA guns.
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R502
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Part of this R502 has been cut away.
R02 twin group shelter.
Inside an R502 with a heater and bunk beds.
Plan..
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R502
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I don't think its cut in half, just the edge removed.
The two pipes could be the chimneys.
A bunker stove.
Plan of the chimney arrangement..
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R502 periscope
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R502's had a third room for either storage or an officers room and it usually had a periscope to be able to look around the outside from inside the bunker.
Periscope fittings inside a bunker.
Using a periscope.
View..
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Vf2a
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A Vf2a, the whole area was a camping site and there are all sorts of odd bits an pieces around. Very confusing.
Plan of a Vf2a.
Plan.
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Vf2a
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The entrance into the Vf2a.
Plan of a Vf2a shelter.
2cm Flak 30 AA guns.
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Vf2a
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The inside.
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Vf2a
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R515 escape
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Further along is an R515 machine gun bunker. This is the escape hatch and ladder outside. This would have had a bricked up square or half round concrete wall and sand/earth piled up to the roof.
R515, plan with an added Tobruk and a left side flanking wall.
The square and round bricked types of escape.
Plan of an escape.
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R515's Tobruk
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A slightly different style of Tobruk. This was added as the original design dose not have a Tobruk defence. Its an early design the type I have seen in Alderney.
R515 can just be seen in the trees on Google.
R515, plan with an added Tobruk and a left side flanking wall.
You can see its been added on.
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R515 outside
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Here is the R515 side on.
R515, plan with an added Tobruk and large flanking wall..
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R515 plan
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MKB Bunkersite.com plain of the R515.
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R515 outside
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Its quite a long thin style of bunker.
R515, plan with an added Tobruk and large flanking wall..
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R515 gun room
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Gun room where a steel plate would fill this room off and a machine gun could cover the entrance of Bulldogge.
Steel plate in situ.
Machine gun crew.
Plan.
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R515 gun room
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Large bolts to hold the metal plate in place..
Steel plate being fitted into a bunker..
7P7 metal plate.
Inside.
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R515 gun room
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Two small Sprachrohr pipes, one connected to the rear entrance and the other to the Tobruk, keeping the commander in contact with his other men around the bunker. The centre tube is to aid the removal of smoke fumes from the gun room.
Sprachrohr speaking tube.
Sprachrohr pipe connections.
The extractor pipe may have had a grill like this.
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R515 gun room
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Gun room. Possibly three to four men in here and very cramped. One gun or bunker commander, one gunner & one loader. A fourth as ammunition carrier and also to drive the gas filtration system. There would be a fifth in the Tobruk at the rear.
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R515 crew room
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Crew room where the crew of about four or five would have lived, ate and then fought. A very tight space.
Fold away beds..
Heating and cooking.
Crew.
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R515 escape
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Escape, we saw the escape outside with the steel steps going up the wall, this is inside where a door would have fitted.
410P9 door.
Escape.
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R515 escape
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The escape tunnel, first had a gas tight door. A 410P9 type. Then several shutters that closed off the space. behind that the tunnel would be filled with sand or gravel. You would have to open the door, remove the shutters and then drag out the gravel/sand. When all this is done, crawl out and climb the steel ladder and hope you escaped?? The reason for the gravel/sand was to make it very difficult for an enemy to access the bunker via the escape.
410P9 door handle.
Shutters in the tunnel.
A concrete cover to an outside escape.
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R515 anti gas
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Brackets for the anti gas filter system. A handle would be turned and air would be sucked in from outside and filtered for gas/smoke/fumes and fresh air pumped into the inner space. The air would be over pressured so that gas could not seep into the bunker. Also valves could be manipulated to just allow the fumes from the gun room to be vented outside, pumped by the pump. There was also a periscope room in the middle of the bunker.
R515.
Gas filter unit sitting on its bracket.
Spare filters.
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R515 anti gas
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Brackets for the anti gas filter system.
Filtration.
Gas mask.
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R515 crew room
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Writing on the wall, the red circle is showing its a gas tight bunker. The doors often have a red circle if they too are gas tight.
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R515 anti gas
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Found in another bunker but relevant to here.
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R515
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Small vent to remove the smoke from inside the gun room.
Plan of the air ventilation to remove the gun smoke from a gun room.
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Vf2a
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A small crew bunker behind the R515 can be seen behind the trees.
Plan Vf2a..
Plan.
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Vf2a
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Damaged entrance to the bunker. Vf. For V (Verstärkt) f. (feldmäiger). A small crew living shelter, or ammunition room, or office space, or HQ of small Wn. Many uses.
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Vf Machinery Bunker/Kitchen
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I have no idea what sort of generator was in here if it was a generator bunker. The chimney makes it look more like a kitchen bunker, so I am not at all sure. I have gone with both.
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Vf Machinery Bunker/Kitchen
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A brick roof with a cement render over the top.
Small generator set.
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Vf Machinery Bunker/Kitchen
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The chimney now pushed over on its side.
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Vf2a
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There are about two Vf2a's down the west side of Bulldogge.
Plan.
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Vf2a
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An entrance.
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V229 Fu.SE 65 Würzburg Riese
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Back up on the top.
A V229 socket for the Fu.SE 65 Würzburg Riese radar has a low wall around it and small entrance. This maybe original or it may have been built for the camp site BBQ?.
V229 radar socket plan.
Rough plan of the V229 radar here.
Fu.SE 65 Würzburg Riese radar.
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V229 Fu.SE 65 Würzburg Riese
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The V229 socket with access into the centre of the socket when the radar is in place.
A V229 socket and possibly the radar set pushed over on its side??.
V229 socket.
Fu.SE 65 Würzburg Riese radar.
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V229 Fu.SE 65 Würzburg Riese
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Looking inside the socket.
Inside a cabin that sat behind Würzburg the array.
Inside a cabin that sat behind Würzburg the array.
The large cabin on the back of the radar..
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Geoportail 1947
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We are now in the yellow area where the living accommodation I think would be. There are at least three buildings still here. Two almost L shaped buildings and one square.
Left shelter.
Right shelter.
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Shelter
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Very odd shaped building, why its that shape which is very distinctive from the air..
Plan of the first shelter.
Plan of this shelter.
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Shelter
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Here is the R600b with its 5cm KwK 38, as you can see it covers the whole area at the rear of the batterie.
Plan of this shelter.
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Shelter
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This is the square or oblong shelter, with quite a strong concrete roof..
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Entrance
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This looks as though it was the main entrance drive..
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Ringstand
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This is interesting, I am not sure of its age, but it dose look like a field guns ringstand. It may have been used either in the defence of Bulldogge or StP Ste-Cécile..
Field gun open emplacement.
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In this picture you can see the ring. Its called a Chaser ring.
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Fu.SE 65 Würzburg Riese
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This is a Würzburg Riese radar at Douvres in Normandy.
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AIR 40/3024 Recognition Of German Ground Radar
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Freya Radar
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AIR 40/1663 Rhubarb Operations Appendix VI
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Ste-Cécile.
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A target reconnaissance photo showing where the target is. "Bowl Fire" was a code word for the type of radar. Then the RAF/USAAF would fly over with either bombers or fighter bombers to attack the site.
There is a story here: -
A friend who at the time was in the Royal Nay on Steam Gunboats. They were large fast MTB. His boat would be sent over at night to France and creep into the coast. The Captain (Later Sir Peter Scott) would ask the engine room "to make SPARKS". To make sparks meant a mass of red & yellow sparks showering out of the ships funnel. The sparks would light up the dark night and also be seen by German lookouts ashore.
Suddenly all the radars in the area would switch on and the guns along the beach start to fire. The Steam Gun boat by now, was at full speed going as fast as it could to get away from shell splashes all around it. My friend said it was an awful moment. He was a 17year old gunner on a twin Lewis gun.
Now whilst all this was going on, a Wellington of a special secret intelligence unit would be flying down the coast, packed with electronics to pick up the radar signals and the radio transmissions. They would plot all the radars seen, the positions of the radios and also take bearings of the gun flashes from the batteries inland. Now Allied Intelligence had targets that could be destroyed at a later date.
That date came around D-Day. Radars that the Allies wanted to see a dummy landing in the Pas-de-Calais, were left alone to dealt with later. The ones around Normandy were bombed and rocketed out of existence.
Handley Page Halifax bombers were used on these sites when not needed to deliver paratroops.
Hawker Typhoon fighter bomber.
Inside a cabin that sat behind Würzburg the array.
MGB S309.
Wellington converted bomber.
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AIR 40/3024 Recognition Of German Ground Radar
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Ste-Cécile.
Radars
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A large conical lattice tower with a Freya set behind it. Also an oblong building sunk into the sand, may have been a command centre for the radars.
Luftwaffe radar technicians.
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AIR 40/3024 Recognition Of German Ground Radar
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RAF Targets
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Details of the the constant RAF Reconnaissance aircraft.
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