Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin
Cancale a wonderful place for sea food. Situated on the coast between Le Mont Saint Michel and Saint-Malo.
Ra104b:
2 x R501 Group shelter.
1 x R502 Twin group shelter.
1 x Vf600 Emplacement for 5cm KwK gun adjusted.
1 x R504 Anti-tank bunker with group shelter.
1 x R667/SK casemate for a 5cm KwK.
6 x Vf68c Tobruk's.
1 x Stolen.
2 x 5cm KwK L/42 guns.
Ra310a:
Station Kriegsmarine, 1./3. Funkmess-Abteilung.
1st Company of the 3rd Marine Transmission Groupe
1 x SK/Machinenstand.
1 x Fu.MO 2 (FumG Gema NR.g.236type 40a).
August 1944 all equipment and personnel were transfered to the Channel Islands.
Vf68c Tobruk.
R504 Anti-tank bunker with group shelter.
R502Twin group shelter.
Pointe du Grouin.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b (red) is the Pointe and Ra310a (yellow) is the radar station.
Ra310a:
Station Kriegsmarine, 1./3. Funkmess-Abteilung.
Pointe du Grouin. The view
The view back as we started out on our walk. Ra104a Château de la Barbe Brulée. (That is for another day)
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b.
The first Tobruk.
Plan.
Plan of a Tobruk.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra310a Exploitation bunker.
This is the exploitation bunker where the radar operators would have to work.
How it may have looked inside.
Radar image.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra310a SK/Machinenstand.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra310a SK/Machinenstand.
Behind this bunker was a Seetakt Gema radar.
Fu.MO 2 (FumG Gema NR.g.236type 40a).
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra310a SK/Machinenstand.
Probably two generator sets would be inside here, plus storage for fuel.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra310a SK/Machinenstand.
The entrance into the bunker where quite large generator sets would have been brought in.
A plan of how it may be. A big entrance to allow large machinery to be moved in. You cannot get access.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra310a.
Radar Exploitation Bunker by the Semaphore & then the Generator bunker. In front was a base for a Fu.MO 2 (FumG Gema NR.g.236type 40a).
A view back at the semaphore with the radar bunker and to its right the place the radar would have been placed.
I have cut and pasted a Seetakt Gema radar scanner onto the picture to show what it may have looked like.
Fu.MO 2 (FumG Gema NR.g.236type 40a).
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b.
R502 twin group bunker. Inset the Tobruk attached to the bunker.
R502 twin group shelter plan.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b.
R502 twin group shelter.
Pointe du Grouin.
The Pointe.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b.
The west side of the Pointe
With the Semaphore above you can see one R667/SK 5cm KwK casemate and a covered Tobruk.
R667 casemate.
Plan.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b.
R667/SK casemate for a 5cm KwK 39 L/42 Pak gun.
A long way down.
5cm KwK 39 L/42 Pak gun.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b.
How one gets to the bunker. I'm too old for this.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b
R667/SK casemate for a 5cm KwK gun.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b
R667/SK casemate for a 5cm KwK gun.
The gun room with the ready ammunition storage on the left, then the door, to the right is a square chute for putting the fired brass case to clear them from the gun room. Behind the wall (inset) is an added ammunition room.
R667/SK with extra ammunition or crew space behind.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b
R667/SK casemate for a 5cm KwK gun. Part of the corroded gun still in place.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b.
R667/SK casemate for a 5cm KwK gun.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b.
R667/SK casemate for a 5cm KwK gun with the view from the door.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b.
Covered Tobruk. Two very unusual Tobruk's they could only fire one direction.
They are listed as Vf8 type Tobruk.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b.
Covered Tobruk two.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b
R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker.
Set into the side of the cliff is a very well camouflaged Ringstand for a 5cm KwK and behind a personnel/ammunition bunker. Usual the Ringstand fits on the top of the bunker, but here its placed at the side.
R600 personnel & ammunition rooms.
Ringstand.
5cm 39 L/42 KwK Pak gun.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b
R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker.
Set into the side of the cliff is a very well camouflaged Ringstand for a 5cm KwK and behind a personnel/ammunition bunker. Usual the Ringstand fits on the top of the bunker, but here its placed at the side.
R600 personnel & ammunition rooms.
Ringstand.
5cm 39 L/42 KwK Pak gun.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b.
The Ringstand. R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker.
R600 Ringstand and bunker.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker.
A narrow passageway to the bunker.
5cm KwK 39 L/42.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b R600 Ringstand.
The view the gunners would have had. Ready ammunition would have been stored in the niches set around the Ringstands low wall.
5cm ammunition.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b.
R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker.
Left : steps down into the bunker.
Right : the gas lock area and an armoured door to the ammunition room.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker.
The armoured door to the ammunition room showing the door fittings. A Marine type door 434p01.
Armoured 434p01 door.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker.
Crew room on the left, ammunition room on the right and the gas lock in the front.
Ammunition wooden box.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b
R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker.
The ammunition room, the painting on the wall is NOT original we believe.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker.
The crew room with the main door and an escape passage and 410p9 escape door.
The way the escape works with the door and a passage through the concrete wall and a steel ladder up the side.
410p9 escape door.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b
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Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b R504 gun garage for a 3.7cm Pak gun.
The bunker is set into a bank with access both ways.
3.7cm Pak
R505 garage and two crew rooms.
The Pak gun could be moved up to the coast or back to the road making a flexible defence.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b R504 gun garage for a 3.7cm Pak gun.
Inset is a gate (491p2 Gittertür).
How it may look inside. An R504 at Ra670.
Crew room. An R504 at Ra670.
491p2 Gittertür gate.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b R504 gun garage for a 3.7cm Pak gun.
Looking into the entrance through the Gittertür with the close combat window protecting the entrance. On the right is the escape tunnel.
Close combat window.
Crew with a close combat window behind.
Pointe du Grouin.
Ra104b R504 garage.
494p2 armoured double garage door.
494p2 double heavy steel armoured doors.
Side view of the R504 garage.
Map.
Pointe du Grouin.
The view from the Pointe.
The Brittany coastline is very varied and beautiful, here with with cliffs, small coves, fishing ports and fine sandy beaches.