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Warrant Officer 1, MSM, T.W.H.B. Drew, Royal Army Service Corps, Dunkirk 1940. My Dad

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A small Wldersansnester covering Va300 a batterie of four railway guns.
2 x R667 casemates.
1 x Ringstand 5cm KwK.
1 x Vf Ic 116.
6 x Vf58c Tobruk´s.
4 x Vf2a.
2 x 5cm KwK 38.

R667 casemate.

Nr1694 Ringstand for a 5cm KwK Pak gun..

Vf Ic 116 Tobruk.

Vf58c Tobruk.

5cm KwK 38.

Vf 2a.

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Plan showing the Va300 Marine railway batterie in the middle, with three defence positions surrounding it. They are too far apart to give mutual protection and can only be used as a forward observation, initial defence and guard duty for the perimeter. The troops would be Army (Heer) and the batterie would be Marine (Navy). So no love lost between these two groups.

Marine.

Heer.

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SHM Plan.
This is a post war French military plan, they visited nearly all the German defenses to record them around winter 1946.

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1953 air photos shows that the R667 casemate is intact and was blown apart at a later date.

I have researched as many air photos as I can and I have managed to find several of the bunkers that were there.

Vf58c Tobruk.

Vf2a bunker for about 15 men.

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R667 casemate on the sand dune facing up the beach with the flanking wall covering the embrasure from direct fire off the sea. The second casemate which would have been facing a more southerly direction, has now vanished.

R667 casemate.2

Flanking wall, gun room and rear entrance.

The 5cm KwK 39 set onto a Lafette or Hold fast in the floor.
'Lafette translates to Chariot'.

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I think it was used to blow up ammunition laying around the vast artillery range that this was. Probably the French engineers just filled it and blew it to pieces.

Details as to where to shoot at a Sherman tank with a 5cm KwK.

Its stated that its a 5cm KwK 38.

The gun originally fitted to a Panzer III was superseded by a 7.5cm Pak which made the tank a much more useful weapon. As all the old guns were re used on a fixed Lafette and placed in fixed positions.

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This is an R667 at Wn65 St-Laurent-sur-Mer le Ruquet ouest showing what the casemate would have looked like.

In the above bunker, this was an up gunned version using a muzzle break. This meant that a larger charge could be used and the recoil slowed down by the muzzle break. Making it a formidable weapon against Allied tanks and especially landing craft.

Lafette in an open emplacement.

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