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Luftwaffe station
'Auerhahn'
5./Luft.Nachr.Rgt.53.
Freya.
Giant Würzberg or Wuerzburg as the allies spelt it.
2cm Flak.
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1 - Gosset.
2 - La Poterie.
3 - Theuville.
These are the three areas (inset map) of radars that were here. The one we visited was 1 - Gosset.
4 x Tobruk's.
1 x V229 radar socket for a Würzburg Riese FUMG65.
1 x Freya radar set.
1 x L411 Searchlight garage/emplacement..
1 x L419 3.7cm Flak emplacement.
2 x L410
3.7cm Flak emplacement.
1 x L413 3.7cm Flak ammunition bunker.
2 x R502 twin group shelters.
1 x R621 group bunker.
3 x 2.0cm flak.
Radar men relaxing outside their bunker..
Flak crew.
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Secret, Target XII/32,
RHUBARB OPERATIONS - APPENDIX XII,
CAP D'ANTIFER,
(Aircraft Reporting Station).
3. Position
i. The target is dispersed over three sites 13 miles N.N.E. of LE HAVRE and midway between the lighthouse on CAP D'ANTIFER and the coastal village of BRUNEVAL 1 & a quarter miles S.S.W.
iii. Altitude, 350 feet above sea level.
4. Description.
i. The most northerly site (this one in the above plan) pin point (F) close to the cliff edge 750 yds S. of the lighthouse, contains a Freya apparatus beside which is a small operational hut, and, a short distance further S., a Giant Wuerzburg standing on a circular concrete base. This site is surrounded on the landward side by a long trench, outside with a a belt of wire. There are also slit trenches behind the Giant.
iv. The entire area is heavily defended by light A.A. and a double belt of wire, as well as additional wire defence round individual parts of the target.
'AUERHAHN' was attacked on 11, 22, 23 and 30 May and 2 and 3 June 1944 in the deception plan for D-day. On the early morning D-Day. 617 Sqn (Dam Busters) used window (slivers of silver paper) to jam radar and balloons tethered to boats with radar reflectors to imitate a large ships. It made the radar screens look like a large invasion fleet was coming across. This was operation Taxable and it was very successful.
617 Squadron
RAF Woodhall Spa
01 June 1944.
Stand down due to weather. Radar section working on special installations, (While special equipment is being installed in their aircraft for their work on D-Day night).
617 Squadron
RAF Woodhall Spa
05 June 1944.
This was Operation Taxable and involved 16 617 Squadron aircraft flying a very precise series of timed runs at 200kts and smooth turns over the channel while dropping window on a strict timetable. All together this was designed to look like a large convoy slowly approaching the French coast on the German coastal radar screens. The operation was carried out off the Cap d'Antifer and German 15th army radar units reported a large naval force between Boulogne and Etretat, the whole area being placed on alert.
617 Squadron
RAF Woodhall Spa
06 June 1944
The allied invasion commenced this morning. No further operations were detailed for 617 Squadron.
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three Avro Lancaster bombers of No. 617 Squadron, Royal Air Force, photographed 8 May 1945 IWM.
Details from 617 Squadron Operational Record Book 1943 - 1945.
Aluminium Window strips..
Window strips dropping out of a Lancaster.
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Target XII/32.
Spitfire Photo Reconnaissance.
Spitfire cameras.
RAF interpretation at Medmenham.
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The road from le Poterie to Cap d'Antifer lighthouse. The pre war lighthouse was demolished just before its capture in 1944 and a new one built.
The original lighthouse showing as a target for Allied air forces.
The Lighthouse/Semaphore also had a Coastwatcher and Giant Würzburg radar sets.
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The first sight of the bunkers.
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Vf67 Tobruk.
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Tobruks, I think this type is a Vf67. The entrance via a trench and into a crew/ammunition room and then up usually three steps to the gun room. This had a ring around the top where a machine gun could be swivelled 360°. A crew of one or two, depending on the importance of the position. This one covers the eastern flank along the top of the cliff.
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Vf67 Tobruk.
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A barrel cooling sink
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I can find no information about this piece of concrete. So I have an idea.
Filled with water and barrels for
2cm AA guns could be put in to cool??. I have seen a barrel cooling sink on the island of Alderney. M.B. Elsaß, Fort Albert, Alderney.
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Barrels of 2cm Flak guns.
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1913 FuMO Cap d'Antifer /
Phare (Gosset) Seetaktische
Funkmeßortung 1 x FuMO 215
1 x FuMO 2 Calais B
(Ozet 531).
Unsure what this is/was??
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Looking south.
Plan.
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L411 Searchlight bunker
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A 60cm searchlight bunker L411 where the crew can live underneath, the light can be pulled down and placed in the bunker for safety and servicing and there is room for fuel and a generator
L411 Searchlight bunker roof.
L411 Searchlight bunker elevation.
60cm Searchlight.
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L411 Searchlight bunker
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The light would be pushed (man handled) up to the top and connected to wires from the generator below.
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60cm searchlight (MKB Bunkersite).
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L411 Searchlight bunker
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Ramp down to the bunker.
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L411 Searchlight bunker
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Hooks for camouflage netting.
Camouflage net.
Camouflage.
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L411 Searchlight bunker
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The entrance into the bunker. The large hole on the left side is the vent for the generator.
60cm searchlight.
The very large vent in the bunker.
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L411 Searchlight bunker
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The search light could be used against aircraft and helped by the radars around it to find the planes and also against shipping off the coast.
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L411 Searchlight bunker
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Search light garage.
A close combat window on the left wall covering the door and room for a searchlight.
Plan.
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L411 Searchlight bunker
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Generator room.
There is a large vent hole which was used as a cooling vent..
Generator. (MKB).
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L411 Searchlight bunker
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Left - Fuel store.
Right - Gas lock to crew room.
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L411 Searchlight bunker
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Fuel & machinery store room.
The allies called them Jerry cans, a 20ltr general purpose fuel can.
Wehrmacht-Einheitskanister - (Wehrmacht standard canister) designed in 1937 and still being produced all over the world.
Tool kit.
Plan.
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L411 Searchlight bunker
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Gas lock with a drain in the floor.
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Drainage tank.
Bunker drainage.
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L411 Searchlight bunker
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Crew room.
The arrows point to the screws to hold up bunk beds.
Bunker beds (MKB Bunkertour).
Top bunk still in place.
Bed hooks would be bolted to the wall (MKB Bunkertour)..
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L411 Searchlight bunker
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Crew room.
Bed hooks would be bolted to the wall.
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R502 Twin Group Shelter
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R502 twin group shelter is an early 1939 model bunker and has one room with a dividing wall and a small room for storage/ periscope & more.
The small red dot is where the periscope was situated.
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R502 Twin Group Shelter
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The entrance to the bunker.
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R502 Twin Group Shelter
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Close combat defence embrasure.
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R502 Twin Group Shelter
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Gas lock
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First crew room.
Plan.
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R502 Twin Group Shelter
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Close combat embrasure, the metal plate has been unbolted and removed.
This may be the sort of plate used.
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R502 Twin Group Shelter
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Crew rooms.
Plan.
(MKB Bunkertour).
Bunker cupboard.
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R502 Twin Group Shelter
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Store room, on some R502 bunkers periscope were fitted in here. I am not sure this has one.
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R502 Twin Group Shelter
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Second crew room.
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R502 Twin Group Shelter
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Gas lock and way out.
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Steps up the side of the bunker.
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R621 group shelter
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Entrances into the bunker.
R621 plan.
Plan.
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R621
group shelter
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The rear with entrance into the bunker & Tobruk to the right.
R621 plan.
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R621
group shelter
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The left hand is an escape from the bunker the right hand one may be a chimney ??
Escape plan.
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L419 Emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak
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Flak position made for a 3.7cm Flak but as usual I believe they used 2cm Flak guns.
2cm Flak 30.
Plan.
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L419 Emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak
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The entrance.
L419 Emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak.
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L419 Emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak
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Ammunition room.
Plan.
Escape hatch between the two rooms.
2cm Flak tool kit.
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L419 Emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak
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Second ammunition room.
Plan
2cm ammunition.
2cm ammunition.
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L419 Emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak
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Way out.
Plan.
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L419 Emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak
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How it may have looked.
Plan.
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L419 Emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak
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Gun emplacement.
Plan.
2cm Flak.
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04 March 2012
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L413 Ammunition for a 3.7cm Flak batterie
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Small ammunition bunker.
R501 plan.
Plan.
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L413 Ammunition for a 3.7cm Flak batterie
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Entrance.
Plan.
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L413 Ammunition for a 3.7cm Flak batterie
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Entrance space.
Plan.
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L413 Ammunition for a 3.7cm Flak batterie
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Ammunition room.
Plan.
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L413 Ammunition for a 3.7cm Flak batterie
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Ammunition room. This would have been stacked to the ceiling with boxes of 2cm Flak ammunition.
Plan.
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Not at all sure what this was and nothing on the plan. But there are quite a few railway lines used just in the fence posts, so they must have been used either as defence posts/anti glider posts or there was a railway line laid to the other site around the woods of La Poterie Farm.
Anti-glider posts at an other radar site Tr05 Tréport.
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V229 Radar Socket
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Würzburg Riese FUMG65. (‘Riese’ German for ‘Giant’)
Detection range up to 70 kilometres.
The initial homing in on an enemy aircraft is performed by another radar, as here a Freya radar. After detection by the Freya radar , the Würzburg Riese radar takes over and transmits all acquired data of the tracked object through an intermediate analogue computer device (Kommandogerät) to an anti-aircraft artillery unit. (Museum of Raversyde)
Würzburg Riese FUMG65.
Inside the cabin at the back.
Cabin.
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V229 Radar Socket
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The V229 socket that would have had the large dish attached.
FuMO 215
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V229 Radar Socket
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I am not a Radar expert but I believe the closer the operator screen can be to the dish, the shorter the connections, the better the radar works. So on the Giant Würzberg the cabin sits right behind the dish and travels around with it.
The cabin.
Detail of the inside of the cabin.
Radar operators inside the cabin.
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V229 Radar Socket
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You can see the bolts to hold down the radar dish.
details
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L410 Emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak
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Another 3.7cm Flak bunker but using a 2cm Flak in it.
Plan.
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L410 Emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak
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L410 Emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak
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Ammunition niches around the emplacement.
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The L410 Emplacement and the V229 radar socket.
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Filled with water and barrels for
2cm AA guns could be put in to cool??. I have seen a barrel cooling sink on the island of Alderney. M.B. Elsaß, Fort Albert, Alderney.
Plan.
Barrels of 2cm Flak guns.
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Road block
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This was the main entrance into the radar site from La Poterie. All traffic would pass through here as there was an anti-tank ditch, two widths of barbed wire and probably a minefield.
Plan.
Road block.
Ammunition arriving.
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Road block
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Anti-tank ditch.
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Road block
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Two railway lines would slide through and fit into the square sockets. Then rods would go into the two oblong sockets in the right block and secure the railway lines in place.
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Vf58c Tobruk.
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Armed with a machine gun and a rifle, maybe another man to help load the MG. He too would have a rifle and your job would be to cover the whole of the east side of the radar site with your machine gun. Also to be used as an AA weapon against low flying fighter/bombers. Of which, by 1943 were becoming a very regular sight here.
Vf58c Tobruk.
Under construction.
Hawker Typhoons.
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Vf58c Tobruk.
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The entrance to get inside via a trench system. This Tobruk covered the road block and entrance.
Plan.
Vf58c Tobruk.
details
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04 March 2012
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L410 Emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak gun
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Plan.
Plan.
A - Ammunition.
C - Crew rooms.
Off - Officers room.
Plan.
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L410 Emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak gun
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Another 2cm Flak was mounted in here.
2cm Flak 30.
2cm Flak 38.
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L410 Emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak gun
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R502 Twin Group Shelter
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R502 Twin Group Shelter.
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Vf67 Tobruk
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This Tobruk covered the east side.
Peep Oh!
Plan.
Vf67 Tobruk.
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Unknown item??
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Freya FUMG 80 radar
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FUMG Funkmessgerät - Radar - anti-aircraft targeting radar.
Plan.
Plan.
Freya FUMG 80.
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Freya FUMG 80 radar
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Freya FUMG 80 radar
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Vf67 Tobruk
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This one covers the N/E side of the site.
Plan.
Vf67 Tobruk Plan.
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Vf67 Tobruk
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Vue panoramique.
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