Wn Trou05 Vasouy

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Between Wn Trou04 and StP Vasouy M.K.B. battery.

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5cn KwK gun.

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Search light.

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Tobruk.

Wn Trou05 Vasouy

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy.

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1 x L411/SK Scheinwerfer (search Light).
2 x Ringstands for 5cm KwK.
2 x Vf bunkers.
2 x 5cm KwK L/60 guns.
1 x Vf58c Tobruk.

Wn Trou05 Vasouy

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IGNF

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This is the easiest route to take to the Wn.

Wn Trou05 Vasouy

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30 October 2010

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A lovely walk along an empty beach very early in the morning.

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IGN 1949

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Plan of the defences five years on.
L to R 5cm KwK ringstand and Vf bunker behind. Tobruk on the cliff edge. another 5cm KwK on the top of the bank. An R411A searchlight bunker with an SK embrasure for the light and behind another Vf bunker with a double entrance.

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R411A The two small rooms are equipment & fuel, the right hand room for crew. The bottom left generator room and garage.

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An R411 not an R411A I am afraid but gives an idea of what it looked like.

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R411 showing the ramp down where the searchlight would have used.

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Today.

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R411 crew room.

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A crew room.

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Search light.

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30 October 2010

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy.

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This is the layout from the beach.

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Tobruk.

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5cm KwK L/60.

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WO 252/149

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How the beach used to look.

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy

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30 October 2010

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The start of the Wn.

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30 October 2010

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy SK searchlight

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SK searchlight emplacement.
Not really camouflage more graffiti.
This was a searchlight to look for sea targets like ships coming up the estuary into the Seine. The searchlight would light up the target and track it, the guns at StP Vasouy are just to the west and guns inland and could then fire on the targets.

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30 October 2010

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy SK searchlight

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SK searchlight emplacement.
Where the searchlight would stand.

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Search light.

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Searchlight.

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30 October 2010

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The rubbish put into the concrete.

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Mixing concrete.

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy

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30 October 2010

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy R411A

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Ramp down to the garage.

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Ramp down into an R411 type garage.

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R411 garage entrance.

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A 60cm searchlight and generator.

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30 October 2010

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy SK searchlight emplacement.

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30 October 2010

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy Vf bunker & Ringstand.

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How this Vf and ringstand may have looked.

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Vf bunker & Ringstand.

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30 October 2010

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy Vf bunker & Ringstand.

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How this Vf and ringstand may have looked.

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Vf bunker & Ringstand. The gun sat in what is now the round pace of grass.

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Archive 1944

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy Vf bunker & Ringstand.

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How it looked in 1944. The 5cm KwK Pak L/60 gun. Behind is the SK searchlight emplacement.

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30 October 2010

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy Vf bunker & Ringstand.

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View from the beach.

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30 October 2010

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy ringstand

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The western ringstand.

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The western ringstand.

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Plan.

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30 October 2010

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy ringstand.

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The western ringstand.

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The western ringstand.

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IGNF

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Wn Trou05 Vasouy Vf bunker

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The Vf bunker behind in the field.
You can see the bunker outline and the two entrances that would have connected up to a trench system.

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Plan.

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Vf bunker showing the entrance at Wn99 Brevans, Carentan.

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Vf bunker entrance with the door into the bunker on the right. Brevans.

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Vf bunker crew room. Brevans.

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30 October 2010

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Vasouy beach with the early low winter sun. This is a place where an archaeological dig ought to take place and open all the bunkers up.