Wn403 + Wn404 (StP Fermanville)

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Wn403 Nord de la D16 (StP Fermanville),.
Wn404 Nord du Mont Varin (StP Fermanville).
I have visited Wn403 but not Wn404. These bunkers were being built all around the Cherbourg defence with R634 six embrasure turret bunkers and probably not fully manned but ready for an attack from the south, when soldiers or sailors from Cherbourg area could be sent out to them.

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R622 R622 twin group shelter.

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Road block.

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Guard post.

Wn403 + Wn404 (StP Fermanville)

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German army map of the defences

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Wn403 + Wn404 (StP Fermanville)
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To start with you have K.V.Gruppe Cherbourg, that is sub divided into K.V.U.Gruppe Cherbourg See (here numbered in the 200 range.) And then you have K.V.U.Gruppe Cherbourg Land (here numbered in the 400 range). Cherbourg Land basically is every position (Wn/StP) used in the land defence ring of Cherbourg. Wn's401 to 405 came under StP Fermanville and are clustered around the small hamlet of Mont Varin. Wn401 has quite a few defences but Wn403 to Wn405 may only have had group bunker each as barracks and very little else.

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German road signs.

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5 cm KwK L/60 one of the Cherbourg defences.

Wn403 + Wn404 (StP Fermanville)

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Wn403 + Wn404 (StP Fermanville)
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Wn403: -
1 x R622
1 x R634 under construction (and may be the one showing on the plan?)
Wn404: -
1 x R622 with two Tobruks.
I have no pictures of Wn404 yet.

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Wn403 R622 twin group shelter.

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Wn404 R622 twin group shelter with two Tobruks.

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R634 six embrasure turret bunker (under construction).

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R639 with a 20P7 cupola (under construction).

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German Army defence map

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Yellow - The area we are in at the moment.
Red - The Cherbourg outer defence ring.

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Wn403 + Wn404 (StP Fermanville)

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German Army defence map

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Yellow - The 400 series Wn/StP's.
Red - The 500 series Wn/StP's.
The 400 series was the outer ring and the 500 series the flak, radar, artillery, road blocks, HQ and forts.
Uncoloured the 200 series that is the K.V.U.Gruppe Cherbourg see (Sea) defences.

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Wn403 + Wn404 (StP Fermanville)

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22 November 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------MKB Bunkertour

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Wn403 (StP Fermanville)
R622 twin group bunker

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R622 twin group bunker. There may have been a road block here as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

R622 plan from MKB Bunkertour of an R622 at StP Douvres "Distelfink I".

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Wn403 + Wn404 (StP Fermanville)

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22 November 2008

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Wn403 (StP Fermanville)
R622 twin group bunker

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Roof

Wn403 + Wn404 (StP Fermanville)

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22 November 2008

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Wn403 (StP Fermanville)
R622 twin group bunker

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Tobruk defence.

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AA defence.

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22 November 2008

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Wn403 (StP Fermanville)
R622 twin group bunker

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One of the doors now covered right up.

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Plan.

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Wn403 + Wn404 (StP Fermanville)

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07 Oct 2013

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