Wn93 St-Clément
K.V.U.Gruppe Vire · AOK 7 Normandy · France
Wn93 St-Clément
Driving through Isigny and crossing the river Aure and then turn left (north). On the corner by the bridge is a very nice bar and you can sit outside with a beer and have Oysters for lunch, now that is bunker hunting.
SHEAF (Int) Div.
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Out in front was a 4.7cm Pak 181(f), then the Vf4a machine gun casemate, a Tobruk and a mortar bunker. There was an anti-submarine/shipping net across the river. Surrounded by mines and wire.
1 x 4.7cm Pak 181(f).
1 x Vf4a machine gun casemate.
1 x Vf8 Tobruk.
1 x Ic116 Tobruk.
1 x Vf2a group shelter.
1 x 8.14cm Gr.W.278(f) mortar.
Several machine guns.
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Wn93 sat on the junction of river & dyke. Mine fields covering the eastern side of the river bank another on the other side of the canal.
German army map
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The view up the river estuary.
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Getting closer. There would have been a mine field to the right.
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Vf4a
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The slit could be a bricked up escape hatch and a slit for another machine Gun?
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The slot in the wall is for a chimney fitting. The red arrow is where the embrasure was situated.
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Looking into what was the gun room and the flanking wall.
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Flanking wall damage.
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Rear entrance.
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Passage way.
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Rear door a 19P7 gas tight light steel door.
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Water filled crew room.
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The door way into the gun room.
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Table for the machine gun to sit on.
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Tobruk situated level with the dyke.
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Group shelter for about 15 men.
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Passage way in. The end wall has been blocked off but on most Vf2a's it would have been open.
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A gas tight 19P7 gas tight door with a small glass window.
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Crew room
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Bunk bed hooks where chains would be hooked onto them to hold up three beds.
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Escape hatch tunnel.
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Heating, in the wall is the chimney pipe.
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The roof.
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An extra ammunition space.
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An extra ammunition space.
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8.14cm Gr.W.278(f) mortar.
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8.14cm Gr.W.278(f) mortar Tobruk.
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Eisenpfahel barbed wire post laying over the Tobruk.
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Port of Isigny a small coaster unloading by the Americans after it was captured.
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