StP Atlantik

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23 February 2014

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StP Atlantik

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Batterie 3./H.K.A.R.1245.
8 x R630 machine gun casemate with metal plate.
1 x R612 casemate.
1 x R105c machine gun casemate.
1 x R625 casemate for a 7.5cm Pak40.
1 x R506a casemate for a 4.7cm anti-tank gun (t).
1 x R604 gun bunker.
7 x R621 group shelter.
1 x Vf2a group shelter.
1 x Vf67 Tobruk.
4 x Feldm shelter.
6 x 15.5cm K.418(f).
1 x 4.7cm Pak K36(t).
1 x 7.5cm F.K.236(b).

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Plan R105c.

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R630.

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R604.

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StP Atlantik.

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23 February 2014

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StP Atlantik

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Nova Hotel or the leftovers of the bunkers put together to make an ugly hotel?

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R198 Wasser bunker for water storage.

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R506a

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60cm Searchlight.

StP Atlantik.

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StP Atlantik.

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StP Atlantik with the modern map overlay showing why we cannot find very much of Atlantik left.

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R119 is a command bunker with an attached fire-control post added and a roof top observation platform..

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R119 showing the added shapes to the bunker.

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Garage for an anti-tank gun.

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StP Atlantik. Vf7b or an R621?

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We start at the rear of the bunker --- sorry hotel and there are the remains of either a Vf7b ammunition magazine or an R621 possibly for the crew of one of the open gun platforms.

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Vf7b ammunition magazine.

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R621 group bunker for the guns crew.

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4 x 15.5cm K.418.

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StP Atlantik. 1956 air photo.

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By 1956 a lot had been removed and more followed very quickly.

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R630.

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Vf7b ammunition magazine.

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R607 heavy ammunition magazine.

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Bundesarchiv.

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StP Atlantik.

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A picture of possibly just here showing a guard and the barbed wire defence.

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StP Atlantik.

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23 February 2014

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StP Atlantik. R612, a Vf67 with a FT17 tank turret.

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The Vf bunker has been removed.

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Vf67 with a FT17 tank turret.

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The turret taken from a Renault FT17 tank.

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StP Atlantik. R612.

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Very well camouflaged is this R612 casemate with a 7.5cm F.K.236(b)

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7.5cm F.K.236(b) a gun towed by a lorry with rubber tyre.

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7.5cm F.K.236(b) a hippomobile (horse drawn) artillery.

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StP Atlantik.

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StP Atlantik. R612.

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Set in the sand dunes firing along the front of StP Atlantik, totally inaccessibly now as the sand covers all the openings.

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This is a 1940's air photo of this R612 with a flaking wall covering the back entrance.

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StP Atlantik.

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23 February 2014

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StP Atlantik. R612.

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The flanking wall protecting the embrasure from being fired on from the sea.

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Plan R612.

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7.5cm F.K.236(b). F.H. Field Kannon. (b) Belgium.

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StP Atlantik. R612 casemate.

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This is the view the gunners would have had up the beach. This gun could hit any landing craft , tank or infantry coming up the beach if a landing had happened here.

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Beach patrol.

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StP Atlantik. R612.

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The view out to sea & the man in the red coat.

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23 February 2014

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StP Atlantik. The view south.

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StP Atlantik.

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StP Atlantik.

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