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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.
Isigny.
A post card of the river estuary.
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.
Vf4a casemate.
Vf2a group shelter.
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.
Mine laying.
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.
4.7cm Pak 181(f).
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Vf4a
Vf4a
4.7cm Pak 181(f) was sat further up the river.
Vf4a casemate.
MG.34 on its heavy tripod.
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Vf4a
The slit could be a bricked up escape hatch and a slit for another machine Gun?
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Vf4a
The slot in the wall is for a chimney fitting. The red arrow is where the embrasure was situated.
Vf4a embrasure..
Vf crew heating.
Wt80k heater.
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Vf4a
Looking into what was the gun room and the flanking wall.
Vf4a embrasure..
Vf4a plan.
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Vf4a
Flanking wall damage.
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Vf4a
Rear entrance.
Vf4a plan.
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Vf4a
Passage way.
details
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Vf4a
Rear door a 19P7 gas tight light steel door.
Vf4a plan.
19P7 gas tight door.
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Vf4a
Water filled crew room.
Vf4a plan.
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Vf4a
The door way into the gun room.
Vf4a plan.
7.92 Ammunition boxes.
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Vf4a
Table for the machine gun to sit on.
Machine gun table.
Vf4a plan.
Crew.
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Tobruk
Tobruk situated level with the dyke.
Tobruk.
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Tobruk
Plan.
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Vf2a
Group shelter for about 15 men.
Vf2a plan.
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Vf2a
Passage way in. The end wall has been blocked off but on most Vf2a's it would have been open.
Plan.
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Vf2a
A gas tight 19P7 gas tight door with a small glass window.
Plan.
19P7 door.
Gasschutztur 19P7 door.
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Vf2a
Crew room
Plan.
Crew.
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Vf2a
Bunk bed hooks where chains would be hooked onto them to hold up three beds.
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Vf2a
Escape hatch tunnel.
Plan
Plan of escape.
410P9 escape door.
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Vf2a
Heating, in the wall is the chimney pipe.
Wt80k heater.
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
The roof.
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Ammunition Niche
An extra ammunition space.
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Ammunition Niche
An extra ammunition space.
Field ammunition store.
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Ic112 Mortar Tobruk
8.14cm Gr.W.278(f) mortar.
Ic112 Mortar Tobruk.
Mortar gun pit and mortar fitting.
Crew firing.
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Ic112 Mortar Tobruk
8.14cm Gr.W.278(f) mortar Tobruk.
details
details
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
Eisenpfahel barbed wire post laying over the Tobruk.
Eisenpfahel barbed wire post.
Eisenpfahel barbed wire post.
Eisenpfahel barbed wire post.
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Port of Isigny a small coaster unloading by the Americans after it was captured.
The old docks.
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Ranger
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