Re305, Les Respects Fire Control Post(f)

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Re305, Les Respects early French fire control post.

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The large deep water port of Brest was large enough to receive battle ships like the Tirpitz. Also a U-boat pen was constructed inside the harbour. That meant that the whole area around the entrance to the Rade de Brest had to be defended. After the attack on the lock gate at St Nazaire the defence was again increased. R305 MKB Von Holtzendorf uses the French fire control post (PDT).

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U-boat pens at Brest.

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We are now at the yellow square where an older French fire control post is located, it directed a battery of the original fortress guns, four 16.47cm set in concrete open emplacements.

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Built up on a mound of earth to look over the pre-war French battery of 4 x 16.47 cm Mle 1893/1896 guns.

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SUFFREN 12,700t, 18 knots, had 10-16.47cm guns, launched 1899. Gives an idea what they may have looked like.

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Side view of the FCP.

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Range Finder Room Poste de Télémétrie.
You can see the rear door.

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Plan of the batterie.

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The rear entrance into the range finding room.

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French Poste de Télémétrie.

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Range Finder Room Poste de Télémétrie.

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Range finder, director the type of equipment that may have been used when originally built.

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French military boundary stone.

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Range Finder Room Poste de Télémétrie. It just shows how small these rooms are.

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Range Finder Room Poste de Télémétrie. Looking at the rear of the room and the door out.

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Wall with holes where some form of fittings would have been

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German bunker wiring.

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French Naval Lynx.

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Range Finder Room Poste de Télémétrie.

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The view that would have been out to sea when the original French & also the earlier German open emplacements of four 16.47cm guns, but when they them replaced with four SK casemates and 15cm S.K.C/28 guns into an earth bank it made this one redundant and a new FCP was planned but not built??

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Fire Control Steel Roof.

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In use by the Germans.

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Fire Control Room.

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The fire control room is the upper aperture.

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Hole in the steel roof may have had a periscope?

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View from the Range Finder Room

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The four arrows show the positions of the four niche's?

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The Four Niche's

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They look like Tobruk's without the machine gun ringstand. They could be ammunition niches for the Flak batterie or small arms ammunition for an M.G. anti -aircraft guns.

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2nd niche.

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3rd niche.

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4th niche.

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Road to the batterie

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There seems to be a problem ahead!

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MKB Von Holtzendorf.

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The first casemate showing up.

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25 November 2009

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MKB 'Von Holtzendorf'.

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Plan of the area and also a mark in the earth where an M145 ammunition depot was/is sited. It may have been removed.

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Plan.

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M145 ammunition depot.

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Inside an M145 showing the size of the rooms.