Wn Rosamunde

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A small Wn covering behind the forward Wn Rio and down to StP Waldam. A sort of back stop in Cricketing terms.

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R680 casemate.

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Wellblech bunker.

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Ammunition bunker.

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Beach defence

Part of the beach defences today being used as another fence post like so many along here.

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Assembling Rommel's Asparagus. There are wires set into the concrete to tie in to the next piece and then when all are tied I think a coat of cement was placed in the joint to seal it off.

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Stage two.

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Stage three.

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Küstenverteidigungskarten

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Plan
You can see Wn Roland to its left and Wn Rio to its right. Wn Rosamunde set back covering between the two main defences.

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1961 Geoportail

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2 x R680 casemates.
2 x Ammunition bunkers.
2 x Wellblech bunkers.
1 x Vf58c Tobruk.
2 x Feldmassige bunkers.
2 x 7.5cm Pak 40 A/T guns.

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R68 plan.

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7.5cm Pak 40 A/T guns.

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Wellblech bunker.

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First ammunition bunker.

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Plan of the bunker.

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Ammunition bunker
A well made ammunition bunker with double opening doors of a style I have no details of yet. A steel frame acts as the door frame and two hinges each side.

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Plan of the bunker.

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Ammunition bunker
The first of two rooms, this is where the 7.5cm shells would have been stored.

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Plan of the bunker.

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Ammunition bunker
The second room, all these rooms have lamp recesses in the wall to allow light inside the bunker. Lamps could be batterie electric or carbide another type used extensively.

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Wehrmacht Eisemann.

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Carbide type.

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Ammunition bunker
The door looking out.

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Ammunition bunker
Not sure what these recesses are for??

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Ammunition bunker
The two ammunition bunkers.

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Ammunition bunker
The second just one room this time.

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Plan.

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Ammunition bunker
The entrance and the same recess on the left side.
Another double door.

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Ammunition bunker
The one room inside with four lamp recesses around the walls.

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R680 casemate for a 7.5cm Pak 40 gun.

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This is an 8.8cm being fired.

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R680 casemate.

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R680 casemate.

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R680 casemate with its 7.5cm gun in place.

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R680 casemate inside.
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R680 casemate internals, the pit in the centre to run the gun in and the trails would extend to the sides and sit in grooves.
There was a fan to suck out the foul gases from the gun room and pump it out the back. .

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Gun trails.

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Extraction piping set into the roof and walls.

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Extractor fan.

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Rost 150mm type vent.

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R680 camouflage. Lumps of cement dabbed on in long lumps.

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R680 from the rear, hard to get into from behind.

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Wellblech
Possibly a Wellblech shelter.

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Empty Wellblech.

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Wellblech used as a crew room.

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Wellblech steel sheets (Wellblech - Corrugated).

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Another beach defence tetrahedral.

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A local built accommodation bunker/hut.

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Beach defence
Another each defence II of six tetrahedral.

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Tetrahedral.

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Fort Vert the local village and community.

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The second R680 is now a hide to watch birds.

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R680 plan.

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A view from the top of the second R680 bird hide showing the way the two bunkers were to cover the area between them.

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7.5cm Pak 40.

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