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The south bank of the Sinope river and all along the sea front of Quineville le Havre. A long frontage with a sea wall, two casemates, R612 & an R667 and several tank turrets. The Hotel de la Plage has always been welcoming. There is also a WW2 museum and you then get access to the R667 casemate from inside.
Pz.T. S35
4.7cm KwK173(f) turret.
R667.
7.62cm F.K.
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This is an Allied Bigot map and a plan of all the defences in the area dated April 1944 and the hash areas off the beach are the 'Area Odysseus' Wn107 & 'Area Odol' Wn106 part of the German fire plan for inland guns to fire onto the beaches in the event of a landing. the guns of Wn136 Mont Coquerel would have drenched this area in kneaded.
R668 Kleinunterstan für 6 Mann.
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Allied Intelligence Tactical Targets Report Cherbourg.
Photo Reconnaissance Spitfire.
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The French SHM plan of the defences.
8th Kp. II./919 Gren. Regt. Leutnant Dettemer.
SHM Rolf
2 - Encouve piece de 50mm. 1 x R667 5cm KwK bunker.
3 - Soutes abris. 1 x R656 15 man bunker.
5 - Tourelle de char. 1 x R668 Kleinunterstan für 6 Mann.
7 - Piece de campagne (Abri). 1 x R612 Casemate for an assault gun.
8 - Projecteur. 1 x SK Scheinwerfer
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Tourelle de de char. 4 x Pz.T. R35 3.7cm KwK144(f)
10 - Abri piece de campagne. 1 x Pz.T. S35
4.7cm KwK173(f)
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Tourelle de de char. 1 x Garage.
13 - Casemate piece de campagne 155mm. 4 x Vf/MG.
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- Casemate piece de campagne 155mm. 1 x 5cm KwK L/42
16 - Tobruk.
R668 Kleinunterstan für 6 Mann.
R656 15 man bunker.
R667 5cm KwK bunker.
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Entrance of the Town.
I am starting at the road into Quineville le Havre from Quineville and here on the right was a road checkpoint, possibly a machine gun pointing up the road and a barrier across the road.
A check point.
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Entrance of the Town.
Here on the left was a road checkpoint, possibly a machine gun pointing up the road and a barrier across the road.
A check point.
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Fire plan of Wn107.
Red lines - Ant-tank wall.
Green lines - anti tank ditches.
Arrows- are the different gun positions.
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Ankerblock für Sperre [anchor block for a barrier].
This is the edge of Wn106 where something like Belgian gates were linked together to make an ant-tank barrier down to the Sinope river.
A row of Belgian gates linked together.
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Ankerblock für Sperre [anchor block for a barrier].
The wall was a natural defence to the north and the Ankerblock für Sperre can be seen further along. The perfectly round stone in the wall I have no idea what it may have been used for.
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The anti-tank sea wall southern end.
Tobruk with an R35 turret sat on the end the wall
S35 turret from a Samoa French tank
S35 Samoa tank.
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S35
4.7cm KwK173(f) Tobruk.
Allied plan of this bunker.
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S35
4.7cm KwK173(f) Tobruk.
About to be demolished.
Inside a turret.
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MG Scharte.
There are several close combat defence embrasures (MG Scharte) set into the wall where a machine gun could fire through.
442P01 seems to be the type used.
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MG Scharte.
442P01 Close combat defence embrasure.
Plan of a loophole.
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MG Scharte.
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MG Scharte.
This is where an MG Scharte has had the top cut out to allow campers to walk to the beach.
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Anti-tank wall looking along the front face.
Plan of the anti-tank wall.
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R612 Casemate for an Assault gun.
7.62cm F.K.
R612 with a flanking wall protecting the embrasure from direct fire from the sea.
7.62cm F.K.
7.62cm ammunition.
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R612 Casemate for an Assault gun.
Still has some remains of its camouflage on the top of the flanking wall.
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R612 Casemate for an Assault gun remains of its camouflage on the top of the flanking wall.
The original spot.
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R612 Casemate for an Assault gun.
This picture shows the added tiled roof as camouflage to make it look like a house and extra tiles have been added to the flanking wall. Windows painted on the wall and wooden shutters to close off the embrasure.
Field gun inside the bunker.
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R612 Casemate for an Assault gun.
Rear entrance with the tiles now removed from the roof to probably tile the roof they were Stollen from. It looks like a wooden not armoured rear door.
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R612 Casemate for an Assault gun.
A contemporary picture of the rear of the R612.
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R612 Casemate for an Assault gun. The rear of the casemate today.
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R612 Casemate for an Assault gun from an allied intelligence document.
Victor Lundy, landed on Utah Beach after D-Day. Victor Alfred Lundy was born on February 1, 1923, in New York City to Russian immigrant parents. In 1939, he enrolled at New York University to study Beaux-Arts architecture. Although his education (but not his prolific sketching) was interrupted by a stint in the U.S. 26th Infantry Division during WWII, he returned to the States to continue his studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Victor.
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R612 Casemate for an Assault gun. The view along the inside of the anti-tank wall.
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The view from the other-side of the Sinope River looking south.
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The tank wall.
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The search light and S35 turret.
This is where the search light would have sat where the Office of Tourism is today and down to my left another S35 turret.
Showing the 150mm searchlight.
S35 plan.
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I have superimposed the search light and a Belgian gate covering the beach exit.
Belgian gate being placed.
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Quineville beach with Rommel on one of his many visits to the beaches all along the Atlantikwall.
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I expect he said ''Put more out mines''.
Bouncing Betties.
Teller mines.
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Quineville beach.
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The concrete on the feet held the Czech Hedgehogs down better.
Teller mines on posts.
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The view into Quineville le Havre from the beach.
On the right was an S35 tank turret set into a Tobruk, when the first Sherman tank advanced around the far corner, it came under fire from this gun.
A then and now photo from an Allied Intelligence Report. The truck was their personnel transport. They went all around the French coast in 1945 photographing the beaches. Just in case the British Army had to re land in France in a future war.
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Continuing along the tank wall south.
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R667 casemate for a 5cm KwK L/60.
Interesting, the books state an L/42 which did not have a muzzle break but a contemporary photo of the gun shows it to be an L/60 with the muzzle break??
L/42.
L/60.
The contemporary picture showing a muzzle break.
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On the left is the R667 casemate and the gap in the tank wall is where an MG Scharte was and opened up for holiday makers to walk around.
R667 casemate.
R667 plan.
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This shows the gun with a muzzle break and an L/60.
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Inside showing from L to R, bullet splatter marks on the back wall. The niche where fired shell cases can be placed to go outside the gun room and keep it clear. The door and ammunition space slot in the wall.
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Continuing south.
R667 and on the left an MG Scharte.
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The new sea wall with the tank wall behind.
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MG Scharte at the front.
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MG Scharte from behind.
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Rifle slit.
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MG Scharte rear.
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Now and then.
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R35 Tobruk as it is and was.
Pz.T. R35 3.7cm KwK144(f).
R35 plan.
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R35 Tobruk as it was. Pz.T. R35 3.7cm KwK144(f).
Where the turret fitted on.
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R35 Tobruk as it was. Pz.T. R35 3.7cm KwK144(f).
Pz.T. R35 3.7cm KwK144(f)
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R35 Tobruk Pz.T. R35 3.7cm KwK144(f).
This is the view the gun would have had out to see. The ring of bolts would have held down the geared turret ring and the turret sat on the top. The turret then could be cranked around by a small gear wheel to aim the gun at its target and another to aim up and down.
R35 Turret.
R35 Turret inside fittings.
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The far end of the Anti-tank wall.
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Walking down this alley we found a plaque on the wall.
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The plaque.
En ce lieu le 28 juin 1944 Arturo Fanconi citoyen suisse a donne sa vie en sauvant ses comerades lors des combats de la LIBERATION.
In this place 28 June 1944 Arturo Fanconi Swiss citizen has given his life saving his comerades during the fighting in the LIBERATION.
Plaque in memory of Arturo Fanconi, a Swiss citizen volunteer in the US Army. He was killed by a mine explosion June 28, 1944, rescuing his wounded comrades.
US 4th Div. moving inland.
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The road coming up from the south where another R35 tank turret was situated.
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Pz.T. R35 3.7cm KwK144(f).
This one in the flower bed. Now removed.
R35 turret.
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Pz.T. R35 3.7cm KwK144(f).
The view up the road south. Now removed.
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This one (now removed) would have been able to cover 360deg. inside the Wn106 .
R37 Tobruk.
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French).
A first fortification was in 1689. It was built & probably destroyed and the current one in the late eighteenth century. In 1881 the army had 3 x 16.5cm guns, 3 x howitzers & 22 x Rayes (Mortars). A report of the Board of War superior in August 1888 indicates that it should be a declassified. It was deconditioned and converted to a house. It was last used as a Centre de Vacances. [badly translated by me from Index de la Fortification Francaise 1874 to 1914.]
1880's French troops.
French artillery.
Gunpowder store.
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French) main gate.
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French) main gate.
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French) a small Vf strengthened position just inside the main gate.
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French) inside he small Vf strengthened position just inside the main gate.
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French) inside the small Vf strengthened position just inside the main gate. The last room was used as a wine cellar.
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French) the way out.
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French). The Garage.
Mercedes staff car.
Kubelwagen.
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R656 15 man bunker.
The bunker entrances with four air vents. To the left the is (bricked up) is the entrance to the attached Tobruk
. Between the two doors the crest of he unit stationed here.
R656 15 man bunker plan.
Tobruk local defence.
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R656 15 man bunker.4.Kp./Bau.Pi.Bt1.59. constructors.
How it is situated on the side wall of the bunker.
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R656 15 man bunker.
Right hand entrance.
R656 15 man bunker plan.
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Gas lock with two 434P01 splits armoured doors..
434P01 Door.
Stable style double door.
The single inner door would have been a steel 19P07 with a gas seal all the way around it and a small glass window to look through.
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Crew room for 15 men.
Plan of a bunker bed.
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Crew room with lots of fittings on the walls.
Layout of bunks fitted to the wall of a bunker.
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Close combat defence.
The two close combat defences covering the entrance passage (gas lock).
Close combat machine gun mounting.
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Anti gas spare filter storage fittings.
Gas filters stored just off the floor.
Anti gas filters.
Anti gas filtration for a bunker.
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The doorway out.
491P2 Gittertür (Screen Door).
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French) the view from the garage.
Roof of the garage.
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French) the R565 bunker with the Tobruk on its left.
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French).
The view down to another small entrance and the earth bas been removed from the walls. In the corner is a Tobruk defence.
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French) the Tobruk defence.
Vf58c Tobruk design.
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French) the roof of the R565 bunker with the four aerial tubes and some still have the original steel screw on covers.
Aerial cover.
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French) Tobruk in the other corner.
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French).
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French) the third Tobruk defence of the Quineville Nord (batterie) (French).
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French) the more modern and grand entrance to the house.
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Quineville Nord (batterie) (French).
Not quite the end.
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Liberation 14 June 1944.
The 3rd Batt. 39th Inf. were moving up the coast, the 3Batt. 22nd Inf advanced along Quineville Ridge moving east. 36 A-20 bombers went in and bombed the town prior to the advance. K comp. 39Inf managed to enter the town but came under some bitter opposition from the defenders of the beach. Tanks could not advance due to heavy mortar fire. Smoke was sent in onto the town and K Comp. advanced. With that the defenders realised things were hopeless and surrendered. The 1st Batt. 39Inf working north managed to take Fort St Marcouf but lost several men to mines.
A 20 with invasion stripes.
Blue the Americans and Red the defence.
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