StP Luise
1 x R612.
1 x R134.
3 x Vf2a.
2 x Vf58c.
(Vf8?).
1 x Wasser Bunker.
1 x Pak stand.
3 x field bunkers.
1 x 7.5cm F.K.
Field Kannon.
1 x 3.7cm Pak 35/36 Anti-tank gun.
StP Luise
Just on the western edge of Grand Fort Philippe covering its seaward entrance.
StP Luise
A 1947 photo StP Louise and all its bunkers showing up very well.
StP Luise
Another of my wonderful plans of Louise
Sitting on the top of a dyke overlooking salt flats covering the harbour entrance. A Pak gun garage, two gun bunkers & ammunition and accommodation bunkers.
Vf2a.
R612.
StP Luise
This is probably my favourite site I have visited
I was here in 2005 and have never been back mores the pity.
Coldstream Guards in Arras 1944.
StP Luise
StP Luise
R612 casemate for an assault gun
The rear door of this H612 covering the waterway.
7.5cm F.K. Field Kannon.
StP Luise
R612 showing the embrasure.
Two ammunition niches either side.
Ammunition storage.
StP Luise
R612 showing the embrasure
Nice camouflage.
7.5cm F.K. (field Kannon)
StP Luise
R612 casemate
Casemate showing off its flanking wall and large rear hips.
Plan of an R612.
StP Luise
Part of the original Farm?
The bricks may have been part of the old farm and pieces of defence work added to it.
StP Luise
R134 Ammunition Bunker.
An R134 ammunition bunker with extra pieces of concrete added to the rear blast wall to hold back earthen banks. Possibly entering a trench system.
A plan of this R134.
StP Luise
R134 ammunition bunker
The passage way.
Two 434P01 door split armoured doors.
StP Luise
R134 ammunition bunker
Inside one of the two ammunition rooms.
StP Luise
Tobruk defence
One of the two Vf58c (but could be a Vf8) defence Tobruk's on this site. It is linked to a Vf2 personnel bunker by a covered trench.
Tobruk plan.
A Tobruk with all its earth cover removed.
StP Luise
Vf2a bunker
Entrance into the three Vf2a personnel bunker in the distance. To the left is a well head and there is also a protected water bunker. The wall is all that remains of a hut of some sort.
StP Luise
Vf2a personnel bunker also showing the escape hatch
The escape from the bunker.
Plan of a Vf2a.
Plan of the two types of escapes.
Plan of the way the escapes works.
StP Luise
3.7cm Pak gun garage and firing point.
3.7cm Pak.
StP Luise
3.7cm Pak gun garage and firing point
The gun could be trundled up the slope onto the firing point.
Ready to fire.
3.7cm ammunition.
StP Luise
3.7cm Pak gun garage
A very small garage.
StP Luise
Vf casemate.
I am not sure which gun would have been placed here. Its a lovely designed bunker but why it was built ? Well it could be that the local commander needed another gun bunker and Todt or Rad could not cope. So maybe the local army commander and either his staff (soldiers) or a local builder-built it? Well that's the theory.
StP Luise
Vf casemate
Trench.
StP Luise
Vf casemate gun room
Gun room may have had another field gun in here.
StP Luise
Vf casemate gun room
The half round marks in the concrete are for the gun trails to sit in so that when the gun fires it doesn't jump backwards. And ammunition spaces set into the sides.
StP Luise
Vf casemate Tobruk
Local defence Tobruk set into the bunkers right corner.
StP Luise
Vf casemate Tobruk
One or two men would use this space to defend the casemate.
StP Luise
Gravelines Mole Harbour Entrance
The view across the salt flats to the harbour entrance.
StP Luise
Air photo of StP Luise
A nice picture showing what look like large bomb craters.
StP Luise
RAF Lancaster
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