K.V.A. 'B'. Nord Pas de Calais.
StP 'Norbert', Rue Robelin,
les Huttes d'Oye Plage, H.K.B.

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North/West of Oye-Plage is the Batterie 2./Heers Küsten Artillery Abteilung 827.
An army (Heer) Coastal (Küsten) batterie, two kilometres from the coast it defended. 

15.5cm K.418(f).

15.5cm K.418(f).

15.5cm K.418(f).

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Batterie 2./H.K.A.A. 827.
1 x Doppel flanking R219 casemate.
2 x R600b Ringstand for 5cm KwK.
24 x Feldm bunker (some are Wellblech bunkers).
6 x Geschützstellung (open emplacement).
6 x 15.5cm K.418(f).
1 x 7.62cm F.K.17(t) in the R219.
2 x 5cm KwK.
3 x Officers.
26 x NCO's.
106 x Troops. .

 

 

Elevation: showing the Geschützstellung (Ringstand) and a form of camouflage over the top.

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Einsatz der 18.Lw.Felddivision im K.V.A. „B”.
Deployment of the 18th Army Field Division in K.V.A. „B”.

 

 

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The battery runs parallel to the D119 and there are many more bunkers around the area that we did not find but Google Earth/Remonterletemps can now show up. When we visited StP Norbert there was no Google Earth.
A - Vf observation post.
B - Wellblech personnel shelters.
C - R600b KwK gun emplacement.
D - Vf ammunition bunker.
E - Open emplacement - Geschützstellung.
F - Bunker.

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C on the plan : Rue Robelin, on the left behind the trees is an R600b 5cm KwK emplacement.

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R600b.
An emplacement for a 5cm KwK gun.

R600b type of emplacement.

5cm open emplacement.

5cm KwK L/60.

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R600b
Ready ammunition spaces around the outside.

 

5cm ammunition.

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Ammunition space.
Very close to the Ringstand is this small ammunition room.

 

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Ammunition space.
Inside extra ammunition for the 5cm Ringstand.

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Ammunition SK Bunker?
D on the plan : a double SK ammunition room.

D on the plan.

Plan of the bunker.

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Ammunition SK Bunker
D on the plan : a closer look at this SK small double ammunition room.

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Ammunition SK Bunker
One of the two entrances with MD ?? not sure what this means, its before graffiti was liberally pasted all over lots of bunkers. So it may be original.

 

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Ammunition SK Bunker
Ammunition SK bunker and observation post above it.

 

 

 

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Observation bunker
E on the plan : the observation bunker with wide reaching views across the fields almost to the coast. In front of this bunker is a Ringstand base for a 15.5cm K418(f) gun. There were five more to the left.

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15.5cm open emplacement.

 

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Observation Bunker
A small square observation bunker.

Inside with a concrete bench to sit on? or is it for spare ammunition.

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Geschützstellung
Ringstand for 15.5cm K418(f) gun.

I think this is a drag shoe brake for a wagon. It would have been carried hanging from the wagon on a chain and when the wagon started to go down a hill, it is placed under the rear wheel. Thus dragging along the ground and acting as a brake.

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How it may have looked.

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Hold fast bolts for the gun racer
The guns racer is the a piece of metal that the trails of the gun rested on and ran around the emplacement.

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Crew Bunker
F on the plan : this bunker looks like an accommodation bunker for the guns crew.

There is a window and only one entrance.

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Crew bunker
The entrance passage.

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Crew bunker.
Right hand room with a door to the left hand room and a window in the rear wall. Marks on the walls are for bunk bed fittings.

 

Left hand room.

 

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Wellblech bunker.
B on plan : this is a Wellblech personnel bunker.
A very common shelter and can be used in many ways from accommodation to ammunition.

One of the 15.5cm K.418(f) that was found when captured later.

Plan.

Sheet steel used in a Wellblech bunker.

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BAU Report file of what was there.

Wellblech bunker.
B on plan : this is a Wellblech personnel bunker.

Inside of a Wellblech shelter on Cap Gris Nez.

 

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BAU Report.

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B on plan: taken from another angle showing two Wellblech buildings now in the garden.

BAU Report showing a near miss on one of the gun position.

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A on plan : a double roomed building with a Vf observation on the roof or a flak position.

Plan.

Elevation.

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Barracks
Across the road on the south side is a barrack building.

 

 

 

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Moving west along the D119
Right hand room with a door to the left hand room and a window in the rear wall. Marks on the walls could be bunk bed fittings.

 

 

 

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Barrack 1
Extended Wellblech bunker.

 

 

 

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Barrack 1
In the centre is a Wellblech bunker and then two brick buildings are built on the sides. The roof is of reinforced concrete.

 

 

 

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Barrack 2
Another built in the same style as Barrack 1.

Field kitchen.

 

 

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Barracks 2
This shows the way they were built. The Wellblech in the middle shows the escape door.

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The single Wellblech
This is just a single building

 

 

 

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2 more Wellblech.
Two more Wellblech with what look like trenches connecting them.

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Wellblech1
Escape in this end.

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Wellblech 2
The two doors face each other, so the trench system would have joined them up.

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A view from above a dopple flanking R219 casemate.
Now we get to the last item, a dopple flanking casemate.
A 7.62cm F.K.17(t) field Kannon would sit inside and be able to fire east and west. The flanking walls were their to protect the embrasures and could not be hit by direct fire. There are four flanking walls to protect the embrasures and flanking walls for the entrance.

Basic plan for dopple flanking R219 casemate.

Dopple flanking R219 casemate my original plan. The gun could fire out of one embrasure and if needed could be turned 180° and fire in the opposite direction. Later casemates did away with this idea and used two casemates covering each flank.

7.62cm F.K.17(t) field gun.

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Dopple flanking R219 casemate at Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes de Marck
The gun room of an R219 showing the two embrasures. Ammunition would have been piled against the far wall

Dopple flanking R219 casemate plan.

Dopple flanking R219 casemate my original plan.

7.62cm F.K.17(t) field gun.

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