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Wn88 a standard small Wn armed with one 5cm KwK gun and a heavy machine gun in casemates.

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Bf67 Tobruk.

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1 x R667 casemate.
1 x Vf4a casemate.
2 x Vf8 Tobruks.
1 x Vf2a bunker.
1 x 5cm KwK L/42.
1 x 5cm le.Gr.W.203(f) Mortar.

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13 October 2018

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Vf8 Tobruk

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One of two Tobruks in the local defence, this one covers the north sector and the other may have been sea ward of the Vf4a casemate (I cannot find it even in old photos).

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Vf8 Tobruk

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Vf8 Tobruk

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13 October 2018

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Vf8 Tobruk

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These seem to be very well built, they also age well.

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11 May 2008

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Vf8 Tobruk

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The entrance into the Tobruk which may have had a trench leading from the other defences to this Tobruk.

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Vf8 Tobruk.

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Inside Tobruk.

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Tobruk plan.

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Vf8 Tobruk

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The view north with the Tobruk set off to the right and inland.

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5cm le.Gr.W.203(f) Mortar.

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5cm le.Gr.W.203(f) Mortar.

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R667 Casemate

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The casemate for a 5cm KwK L/42 rather bashed but still looking a bunker.

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R667 casemate.

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5cm KwK in a casemate.

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5cm KwK L/42.

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R667 Casemate

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The very long flanking wall to protect the embrasure and gun from direct fire from the seaward side.

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R667 casemate.

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R667 Casemate

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Looking into the gun room now totally destroyed, what often happened. After capture all the ammunition in the area would be placed inside one of the bunker/casemates. Then the lot was exploded. Some bunkers with large amounts of ammunition, blew the bunkers to absolute pieces. Others like this, just lifted, cracked and then settled back down.

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Destroyed bunker at Neville.

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11 May 2008

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R667 Casemate

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Gun room with maybe part of the gun in place??

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The base of the gun with bolt holes to fit into the hold fast in the base of the bunker, the square shape fitted into a hole in the floor and bolted down.

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This is the guns base fitted into a ringstand and the gun slots onto the centre post.

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The gun an 5cm KwK L/42.

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R667 Casemate

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The gun room looking north up the coast.

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13 October 2018

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R667 Casemate

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The rear of the casemate showing its protected rear entrance.

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The rear entrance.

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R667 Casemate

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R667 Casemate

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Looking onward to the Vf4a casemate.

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Vf4a casemate

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A machine gun bunker.

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Vf4a casemate

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A large flanking wall protecting the embrasure like the R667 earlier.

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Vf4a casemate

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I rather tall embrasure with a half round table to set a machine guns legs on. There were at least three German types of machine gun that could be used but also many captured machine guns, French, Polish & Czech to name three.

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Maxim 08.

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Belt fed ammunition.

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Maxim 08.

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MG.34..

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MG.42.

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Machine gunner in a casemate.

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Vf4a casemate

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Now you can see the entrance into the crew room and through a 19P7 door and the way to understand what door was fitted, look at the hinges on the doors frame, that gives it away. This is a lightly armoured gas tight door with a glass small window at head hight and two large handles to lock the door closed and pulling in the rubber gas seal that is around the door.

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19P7 door.

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Gasschutztur 19P7

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Plan of the door hinges.

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Vf4a casemate

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The flanking wall which has been nicely rendered over from the original rough shuttered finish. Its a Machine Gun casemate, shrapnel proof and a design date of 1942. VF Verstärkt felmä§ige VF or semi-permanent bunker of between 80 to 100mm (Rolf).

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Vf4a casemate.

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Vf4a casemate

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The view the bunker would have had. There was NO anti-tank gun that covered this portion of the beach??

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Vf4a casemate

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Vf4a casemate

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Extra ammunition room. I think this was a small room to add for extra storage and ammunition. The main bunker has a gun room, a crew room and an entrance/ammunition room.

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Vf4a how I see it with its small ammunition room added on the back. Its very overgrown and cannot be looked into on my visits.

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Ammunition boxes.

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Brass cartridge cases.

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Vf4a casemate

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The ammunition room at the rear of the bunker.

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Vf4a casemate.

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7.92 ammunition.

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