Wn Tre01, Mers les Bains ville et plage.
1 x R612 casemate.
1 x Vf/Schartenstand.
3 x Vf51a half group shelter.
1 x Vf7c ammunition bunker.
2 x R600b Ringstand fr a 5cm KwK.
1 x Vf/Pakstand.
2 x 5cm KwK.
1 x 4.7cm Pak181(f).
1 x 7.5cm F.K.235(b)
1 x Luftschutz bunker (Air-raid bunker).
R612 casemate for an assault gun 7.5cm F.K235(b).
A 7.5cm F.K235(b).
R600b Ringstand for a 5cm KwK gun.
Wn Tre01, Mers les Bains ville et plage.
Mers les Bains on the north bank of the river la Bassée.
Wn Tre01, Mers les Bains ville et plage.
Tre01 is from the pier to the start of the low cliffs.
Le Tréport docks.
Le Tréport docks.
5cm KwK.
Wn Tre01, Mers les Bains ville et plage.
An early photo.
The lovely sea front houses luckily still in place.
The German sea wall made of concrete and painted to look like bricks.
Wn Tre01, Mers les Bains ville et plage.
The sea wall.
This could be the site of where the bunker stood and it must have been removed in the 50's..
Sea wall with a bunker to the left.
The bunker to the left.
Wn Tre01, Mers les Bains ville et plage.
Luftschult bunker.
Arm band.
Wn Tre01, Mers les Bains ville et plage.
Luftschult bunker.
Thank you to Peter for this information.
Wn Tre01, Mers les Bains ville et plage.
R612 casemate can just be seen with the flanking wall behind the man. Barbed wire beach defences still in place.
View south west along the beach and sea-wall.
(4041/82 S.E./462825).
9 USAAF 18 June 1945 taken from 2000ft.
R612 casemate plan.
R612 casemate MKB Bunkertour.
R612 casemate with a 7.5cm F.K.235(b).
Wn Tre01, Mers les Bains ville et plage.
MG bunkers.
Wn Tre01, Mers les Bains ville et plage.
Possibly the Vf/Schartenstand or machine gun pillbox.
Two or three machine guns would have covered the beach area.
Wn Tre01, Mers les Bains ville et plage.
Possibly the Vf/Schartenstand or machine gun pillbox.
A good use of camouflage.
The anti-tank rails set into the ground.
Anti-tank obstacles.
Wn Tre01, Mers les Bains ville et plage.
Possibly the Vf/Schartenstand or machine gun pillbox.
Wn Tre01, Mers les Bains ville et plage.
Possibly the Vf/Schartenstand or machine gun pillbox.
Wn Tre01, Mers les Bains ville et plage.
View north east.
Close up of ramped exit from beach. showing embedded steel anti-tank obstacles.
(4041/82 S.E./462825).
Wn Tre01, Mers les Bains ville et plage.
© 2013 Richard Drew