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Batterie 6./H.K.A.R.1245.
1 x R636a Fire Control Post.
3 x Geschützstellung (open ringstands).
1 x Vf7a Ammunition Bunker.
1 x Vf7b Ammunition Bunker, bomb proof.
1 x R127 group bunker with forward apron .
1 x Vf52a Mortar Tobruk.
5 x R630 machine gun casemate.
1 x R624 machine gun bunker with steel plate front and roof plate.
1 x R105 machine gun casemate large.
4 x Michelmannstand machine gun open emplacement.
1 x Ringstand for a 5cm KwK Pak.
2 x R611 casemate for a field gun.
1 x Vf/Skoda 4.7cm Pak.
3 x 17cm K18 guns.
1 x 7.5cm F.K.236(b) Field Kannon.
1 x 7.5cm F.K.38 Field Kannon.
1 x 2.5cm Pak 112(f) A/T.
1 x 4.7cm Pak K.36 Skoda gun.
1 x Pz.T. 3.7cm KwK 144(f) tank turret.
2 x 2cm Flak 30 AA.
3 x 17cm K18 guns.
4 x Michelmannstand.
2 x 2cm Flack 30.
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Heers Kusten Batterie (Army Battery).
Plan of the battery, this is a mix of a three gun battery and a defensive site, defending the north beach at Berck. For this we have a complete cross section of bunkers from quite early machine gun bunkers, open
Geschützstellung to R611, but no newer types?
R611.
5cm KwK ringstand.
R127.
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StP Berck Nord.
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This is the start of our walk, we visited a lot of bunkers, about half of what was there. Many have been removed and also the massive hotel/hospital has now been removed.
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Bunkers littering the beach and sand dunes.
Geschützstellung.
3 x 17cm K18.
3 x 17cm K18.
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R621 & R127
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L to R - R621 group shelter and an R127 a group bunker with a forward apron.
R621 crew room, gas lock and Tobruk.
R127, crew room, store room, ammunition & gas lock.
A gas lock.
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R600b & storage.
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R600b or a 5cm KwK gun with a small storage bunker. A respectable little gun taken from a tank when they were made redundant as the 7.5 & 8.8cm came on stream. The gun was fitted to a modified chassis and bolted to a concrete base.
5cm KwK L42 Pak gun.
5cm KwK L42 Pak gun.
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R600b & storage.
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Looking into one of the entrances.
R600b ringstand model.
This is how it may have looked.
5cm ammunition.
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Attached store.
R600b.
5cm KwK gun.
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Storage bunker for the 5cm KwK gun.
Lovely art.
Site plan.
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R105 Machine gun casemate
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A rather large casemate just for a machine gun with quite few rooms. This type was not rally cost effective and was dropped later on.
R105.
Site plan.
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R105
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The metal plate covering the embrasure.
78P9 Pz Schartsnplatte mg34.
The view from inside.
Mg34.
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R105
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Rear entrance with a close combat window on the left to cover the door.
Aerial view..
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R105
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Passage inside
Plan.
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R105
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Entrance.
Plan.
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R105
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Crew room.
Plan.
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R105
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Crew room and close combat window covering the entrance passage.
Plan.
Equalling valve.
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R105
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The gun room and metal plate.
Plan.
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Cable inlet recess..
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R105
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Gun room.
Some information here.
Machine gunners linking up belts.
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R105
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Internal passage.
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R105
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The periscope room would be connected to the gun room and could guide the gun onto its target.
Periscope room.
Periscope in a bunker.
Periscope hole in roof.
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R105
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Periscope room.
Some information here.
Some information here.
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R105
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Close combat embrasure it looks like a 57P8?
Plan.
57P8.
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R105
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This is the exit passage with two recesses each side to allow radio aerials to slot in. They were telescopic and were raised up by cables and a winding handle.
Aerial in its slot.
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R105
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Exit and I feel I have been found?
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R105
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Attached Tobruk for area defence.
A cutaway of a bunker Tobruk.
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R105
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Geschützstellung (open ringstands) Turm 2
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This is the second of three Geschützstellung that were here. The third I believe has been completely destroyed. They were built for 17cm K 18 guns.
A 17cm K18 gun on a Geschützstellung.
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The bombing of StP Berk Nord.
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Most Allied heavy and light bombers pounded the batteries all the way up the coast.
RAF Lancaster bomber stream.
USAAF B17.
Marauder.
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Geschützstellung (open ringstands) Turm 2
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Left hand ammunition space.
The gun sitting in the middle and two ammunition spaces each side.
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Geschützstellung (open ringstands) Turm 2
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The racer ring would be bolted down to these bolts.
The racer is the outer ring that the guns trail rest on.
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Geschützstellung (open ringstands) Turm 2
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Eastern ammunition space.
Crew loading.
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Geschützstellung (open ringstands) Turm 2
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The view from the sea.
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Geschützstellung (open ringstands) Turm 2
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Another ammunition room.
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Geschützstellung (open ringstands) Turm 2
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Looking down the entrance to the ammunition room.
How it may look inside.
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Geschützstellung (open ringstands) Turm 2
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The passageway in.
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Geschützstellung (open ringstands) Turm 2
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Ammunition room.
Shell boxes.
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Geschützstellung (open ringstands) Turm 1
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This is the second Geschützstellung for 17cm K18 gun.
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Geschützstellung (open ringstands) Turm 1
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The large centre plinth for the gun to sit on..
17cm K18 gun.
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Geschützstellung (open ringstands) Turm 1
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Ammunition.
Site plan.
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Geschützstellung (open ringstands) Turm 1
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The guns racer where the trail would slot in and slide around.
You can see the guns racer in the picture.
17cm K18.
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Vf2a
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Vf2a group shelter.
Vf2a elevation.
Vf2a plan.
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Vf2a group shelter
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The escape hatch and steel ladder rungs up the side of the bunker. This bunker was sunken to its roof in the sand but all that has been washed away by the sea.
A plan of this Vf2a showing the escape and a brick wall holding back the sand.
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Vf2a group shelter
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Looking into the crew room.
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Vf2a group shelter
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Crew room, there would have been bunks attached to the wall and roof around the room. The bunkers door is at the fa end and the left wall has been blown out.
Vf2a plan.
How it may have looked.
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Vf2a group shelter
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Looking out of the escape hatch.
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Vf2a group shelter.
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A rather damaged model. The escape showing up and sand filling the entrance passage.
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Michelmannstand
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A form of ringstand for a machine gun. A very distinctive shape and I think ammunition storage below.
Michelmannstand.
Michelmannstand elevation.
Maxim .
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Detritus of bunkers.
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If you are good with Jig Saws you would be able to build your own bunker.
Brick work from a bunkers escape.
Periscope tube, air vent, chimney, ??.
Railway line.
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R611 casemate for a 7.5cm F.K38
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This one covers the right flank.
Plan of an R611 with a large crew room, two ammunition rooms, gun room and central passage.
7.5cm F.K38.
Powder box for a 7.5cm gun.
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R611 casemate
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Note the size of the foundations underneath the bunker. Another very large bunker, superseded by an R669 much smaller type later in the war
R669 showing the extraction system of foul air after the gun has fired.
R611.
Site plan.
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R611 casemate front view
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A very strong bunker and looks as though it has been completely missed by aerial bombing.
Bombing of Berck.
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R611 casemate
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There he is again always in the way.
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R611 casemate gun room
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This is where the 7.5cm F.K38 gun would have sat.
7.5cm F.K38.
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R611 casemate gun room
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The door into the two ammunition rooms, one for the case and the other for the shells. The other side is the crew room under the sand.
Some information here.
7.5cm ammunition.
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R611
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R611 casemate rear view.
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The site of the Sanatorium Bellevue.
Site plan.
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The Humanitarian Bellevue
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It was derelict for many years and was demolished quite recently.
Map of this part of Berck with the Sanatorium in the yellow square a the top.
Berck Nord being bombed.
Bombs being released over StP Berck Nord but may be landing on Berck aerodrome inland. RAF 250 pound General Purpose bombs.
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R636a Command Post for Army Batteries.
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An R636a was here but I think demolished before or at the same time as the Humanitarian. It would have controlled the 17cm K18 batteries in the area.
17cm K18 gun..
How it may have looked inside.
Site plan where it was sited.
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Vf1a
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Vf1a group shelter.
Vf1a plan.
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Vf1a
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Vf1a group shelter.
Plan.
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Vf1a
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Vf1a group shelter, crew room.
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Vf1a
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Vf1a group shelter.
The great escape.
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R630 casemate with two guard posts
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R630 casemate for a heavy machine gun.
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Lookout
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I presume this is authentic to the battery and there is another about 100meters beyond stood on the ground.
Guard with his dog.
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The view through the observation slit. There is another post like this about 100meters in the thick undergrowth and at ground level.
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In the distance is an R630 covering any attack north from behind the beach. One heavy machine gun behind a thick steel plate.
Plan.
R630.
Machine gun casemate gun fitting.
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R730 machine gun casemate
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We parked back outside the camping site. Oh dear what joys, many cars with ONE man in each. If you do enter this bunker, be very careful. Its used by many of these men and quite honestly there are better R630's to visit in the area. Best give this one a miss.
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R630 the view from the Tobruk
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This is the view that the machine gun would have had right down the road and covering the flatter ground on the left side. To the right its all sand dunes and hard to access for an attack.
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The R630 embrasure
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There would have been a heavy steel plate closing off the aperture with a viewing slit and a machine gun fitting.
78P9, Pz Schartsnplatte for an Mg.34
Mg34.
A gunner set behind an Mg34 fitted into a 78P9 plate.
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R630
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R630 flanking wall.
Some information here
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Part of the concrete road.
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This road would have supplied the StP with all its needs.
Supplies would have been delivered by wagon.
Field kitchen.
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Vf7a
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Vf7a ammunition bunker.
Plan of a Vf7a.
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Vf7a
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R611 casemate
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R611 casemate
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R611 casemate
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Flanking wall.
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R621 group shelter
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The flanking wall and the bricked up escape .
Plan of an R621.
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R621 group shelter Tobruk defence.
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Area defence.
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R621 group shelter.
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This is part of one of the ammunition of Turm 1.
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How the battery of 17cm K18 guns would have looked.
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