Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
Wn Reinhilde is a small position on the edge of the sand dunes covering the exit from the beach.
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
4 x Vf MG-Piltz.
1 x R219 double casemate.
8 x Assorted locally built Unterstands.
1 x 7.5cm Lag gun. (Anti Landing Gun)
Pos. a 7.5cm F.K.235(b).
1 x 2.5cm Pak 112(f).
Piltz.
R219 Doppel casemate.
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
Tetrahedron
The car park with old Tetrahedron beach anti landing obstacles all over the place.
Beach defences.
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
The German 1944 beach defence plan showing all the defences.
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More Tetrahedron beach anti landing obstacles defences.
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
Tetrahedron were wire tied together and cemented with a grout and when dry were very strong.
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
Each side was numbered and they could then all fit in order. Often we have seen scratched on them I, II, III, & IV.
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R219 in the distance.
R219 Doppel casemate.
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
The front of the R219 Doppel casemated bunker which was set to fire either up or down the beach with only one gun doing he job of two.
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7.5cm F.K.235(b).
Box of 7.5cm ammunition.
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R219 embrasure on the east side looking inside.
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
R219 gun room. The gun can be fired through either embrasure or removed from the casemate and used in the field.
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The rear entrance with two flanking walls.
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
Looking back into entrance.
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
The gun room showing the half round marks in the concrete for the trail of the gun to sit.
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
Walking back we found a Piltz.
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
Vf MG-Pilz a three embrasured pill box defence position with a rear door.
Vf MG-Pilz.
Inside a Normandie Piltz.
An Allied plan.
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
The rear door is not original but the cut away hinges are from half a
434PO1 half door.
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A row of Tetrahedral used as fence posts.
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
Looking at the start of the Dunes there are a row of small living bunkers (Unterstands) probably built by the soldiers to live in.
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First on the left.
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We did not enter.
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Then on the right a larger bunker.
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
A covered entrance, bricks were used for the walls and steel corrugated plates for the roof and concreted over. Safe against a near miss.
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One of the rooms.
Bunker cupboard.
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Walking through the rooms.
Wn Reinhilde Les Hemmes dr Marck
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Alarm.
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