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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.

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Isigny.

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A post card of the river estuary.

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Two hundred odd years ago.

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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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Vf4a casemate.

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Vf2a group shelter.

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Vf8 Tobruk.

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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.

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Mine laying.

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S mine box.

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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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4.7cm Pak 181(f).

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Vf4a

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Vf4a

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4.7cm Pak 181(f) was sat further up the river.

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Vf4a casemate.

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MG.34 on its heavy tripod.

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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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Vf4a

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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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Vf4a embrasure..

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Vf crew heating.

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Wt80k heater.

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Vf4a

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Looking into what was the gun room and the flanking wall.

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Vf4a embrasure..

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Vf4a plan.

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Vf4a

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Flanking wall damage.

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Vf4a

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Rear entrance.

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Vf4a plan.

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Vf4a

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Passage way.

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Vf4a

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Rear door a 19P7 gas tight light steel door.

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Vf4a plan.

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19P7 gas tight door.

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Vf4a

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Water filled crew room.

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Vf4a plan.

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Vf4a

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The door way into the gun room.

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Vf4a plan.

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7.92 Ammunition boxes.

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Vf4a

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Table for the machine gun to sit on.

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Machine gun table.

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Vf4a plan.

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Crew.

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Tobruk

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Tobruk situated level with the dyke.

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Tobruk.

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Tobruk

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Plan.

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Vf2a

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Group shelter for about 15 men.

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Vf2a plan.

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Vf2a

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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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Plan.

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Vf2a

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A gas tight 19P7 gas tight door with a small glass window.

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Plan.

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19P7 door.

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Gasschutztur 19P7 door.

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Vf2a

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Crew room

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Plan.

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Crew.

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Vf2a

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Bunk bed hooks where chains would be hooked onto them to hold up three beds.

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Vf2a

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Escape hatch tunnel.

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Plan

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Plan of escape.

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410P9 escape door.

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Vf2a

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Heating, in the wall is the chimney pipe.

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Wt80k heater.

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Plan of the heating and chimney pipe. The long outer down pipe is shaped like that so if a hand grenade is dropped down it, it passed down and outside of the bunker.

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Vf2a

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The roof.

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Ammunition Niche

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An extra ammunition space.

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Ammunition Niche

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An extra ammunition space.

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Field ammunition store.

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Ic112 Mortar Tobruk

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8.14cm Gr.W.278(f) mortar.

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Ic112 Mortar Tobruk.

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Mortar gun pit and mortar fitting.

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Crew firing.

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Ic112 Mortar Tobruk

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8.14cm Gr.W.278(f) mortar Tobruk.

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Plan targets, a forward control officer could call down mortar or gun fire on a mapped targeted area.

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Ic112 Mortar Tobruk

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Eisenpfahel barbed wire post laying over the Tobruk.

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Eisenpfahel barbed wire post.

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Eisenpfahel barbed wire post.

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Eisenpfahel barbed wire post.

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Port of Isigny a small coaster unloading by the Americans after it was captured.

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The old docks.

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