Vill01 Deauville plage est
We stayed in Trouville (its cheaper than Deauville) which is a lovely town. There is plenty of parking and you can walk the port & sea front. Do this on a lovely sunny day. Then its really worth it.
R604 gun garage.
Bauform Vf600v Ringstand for5cm KwK gun.
5cm KwK.
Vill01 Deauville plage est
1 x R604
2 x Vf2a
1 x Vf Skoda casemate.
3 x Vf58c Tobruk's.
2 x 5cm Ringstands
1 x LS Bunker.
1 x 7.5cm F.K.231(f).
2 x 5cm KwK L/60.
1 x 4.7cm Pak K36(t).
Vill01 Deauville plage est
Vill01 covers the right hand side of Deauville from the dock area to the beach which is slightly different now as there is a new Yacht Marina and housing complex.
Tobruk.
Deauville.
7.5cm F.K.231(f).
Vill01 Deauville plage est plan
The area I think is covered by Vill01. Most of the southern area has either been built on or a large Yacht marina has been dug out.
4.7cm Pak K36(t). .
Skoda casemate..
Plan.
Vill01 Deauville plage est Luftschutz bunker
Luftschutz bunker, air-raid shelter, a large bunker with several internal rooms with entrances at both ends. Often a Tobruk each end as well. This is slightly outside Vill01 and nothing to do with the defence, purely an air-raid shelter for the port.
This looks like a Tobruk.
Tobruk as an AA role.
Plan.
Vill01 Deauville plage est Luftschutz bunker
Looking from above you can see the entrances and also two Tobruk's covering the entrances.
Allied bombing.
Bomber stream.
Vill01 Deauville plage est Luftschutz bunker
Looking south at the Quay de la Marine in Bassin Morny. [WO 252/151]
Luftschutz.
First aid.
Vill01 Deauville plage est Luftschutz bunker
This is the view from the road, and built on the roof is now the Deauville Yacht Club.
Deauville Yacht Club.
Deauville Yacht Club.
Vill01 Deauville plage est Luftschutz bunker
A door has been cut into the side to allow tractor parking and storage.
Vill01 Deauville plage est Luftschutz bunker
Air vent with the cover removed.
One a little like this may have been used.
Vill01 Deauville plage est harbour
Tobruk. Now on the edge of the inner docks.
Now on the edge of the inner docks. This does look like a Tobruk covering the inner waterway. The docks were blown up as the allies worked their way up the coast.
Where I think there was a Tobruk set into the Lock.
How it looked before being blown up..
It would have looked very much like this.
Plan.
Vill01 Deauville plage est Tobruk.
This Tobruk had two rooms, a gun room with the Tobruk ring in the top and a small living/ammunition room down three steps. Also a door out or a manhole in the roof to come and go by.
Vill01 Deauville plage est
The estuary of the Toques river. The ferry to Trouville.
Vill01 Deauville plage est Pak bunker
Vf Skoda casemate 4.7cm Pak K36(t).
This is the 4.7cm Pak K36(t) the right hand side as you can see the waste ammunition pit in the front. The attached bunker could be a living bunker?? All this has now been removed.
Plan of the Skoda bunker.
4.7cm Pak K36(t).
Plan
Vill01 Deauville plage est Pak bunker
The casemate now been removed.
Plan of the Skoda bunker.
4.7cm Pak K36(t).
Plan
Vill01 Deauville plage est Pak bunker
Fitted into the view today.
Plan of the Skoda bunker.
4.7cm Pak K36(t).
Plan
Vill01 Deauville plage est
Bf66 bunker and a Vf600v.
The Vf600v sitting on the edge of the quay with the Bf66 crew bunker behind. Note the trenches behind.
It may have looked like this one.
Bf66 plan. Crew room & ammunition.
Vf600 Ringstand.
5cm KwK is a Ringstand.
Plan.
Vill01 Deauville plage est Bf66 and Vf600v
Only the Bf66 crew bunker exists, the Vf600 Ringstand would have been to the left of the bunker.
Bf66 plan. Crew room & ammunition.
5cm KwK Pak L/60.
Vill01 Deauville plage est Bf66
Bf66 crew bunker entrance with my wife in deep thought.
Bf66 plan. Crew room & ammunition.
Beach patrol.
Vill01 Deauville plage est Bf66
Bf66 crew bunker emergency escape in the middle.
Alarm.
Vill01 Deauville plage est Bf66
Bf66 crew bunker.
Vill01 Deauville plage est concrete road.
A concrete roadway to the river?? Trouville Casino in the background.
Vill01 Deauville plage est concrete roadway.
A concrete roadway to the river?? Steel reinforcement.
Vill01 Deauville plage est
Tobruk Ring??? Well it could have been.
Vill01 Deauville plage est
This area is now under housing.
An R604 gun garage, two Tobruk's and two Vf2a bunkers with trenches.
This is the area today..
R604 gun bunker
R604 gun bunker plan.
Vf2a bunker..
Vill01 Deauville plage est command cable.
There must be thousands of miles of these cables all over Europe.
German armoured cable.
Intercom wiring system.
Vill01 Deauville plage est
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