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StP Berck Süd H.K.B. Heers Küsten Batterie.

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Batterie 10./H.K.A.R1245. Heers Küsten Artillery Regiment.
4 x R671 (two possibly under construction but none were finished?).
1 x R612 casemate.
1 x R640 casemate for 3.7/4.2cm Pak with front plate..
1 x Leitstand/SK (Fire control post).
4 x Vf58c Tobruk.
2 x Wellblech shelter.
1 x R665 infantry observation post .
1 x Ringstand for a 5cm KwK.
4 x 10.5cm K29(p).
2 x 2cm Flak 38.
1 x 5cm KwK 28 gun.
1 x 7.5cm F.K.17(t) gun.
1 x 3.7cm Pak 35/36 gun.
1 x Fu.MG Seetakt Gema Zertsörersaüle Fu.MO 3 radar.
For more information on the radar go to StP Berck Süd (Coastwatcher Radar).

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R640.

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Fu.MG Seetakt Gema Zertsörersaüle Fu.MO 3.

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10.5cm K29(p).

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15 March 2024

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The lighthouse was built in 1950 after the wartime lighthouse was demolished?

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Inside a Wellblech. There were two here.

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22 February 2014

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Av. du Phare.
The road to the sea..

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2cm flak 30.

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3.7cm Pak 35/36.

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5cm KwK L38.

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22 February 2014

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Allied target photo XII/22.
Pte de Haute Blanc held a Coastwatcher radar as well an artillery battery and defence site.

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Coastwatcher was the Allied code word for a Fu.MG Seetakt Gema Zertsörersaüle Fu.MO 3..

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Allied intelligence drawing of a Coastwatcher radar.

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A plan of what is left today, or what we found.

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22 February 2014

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The area of the battery is to the left of Av. du Phare and to the right is the radar site.

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22 February 2014

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On a cold but sunny February day 2014 and then later on a cold sunny day in March 2024..
There were several beach defence casemates and artillery positions, very little is now left..

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R612 casemate, there seems to have been one here?.

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7.5cm F.K.17(t) would have looked like this one.

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22 February 2014

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Vf51 + garage.

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Plan of a Vf51 half group shelter + garage..

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16 March 2024

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Vf51 + garage.

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3.7cm Pak outside its garage..

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3.7cm Pak & crew.

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22 February 2014

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Vf51 + garage.

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Field kitchen.

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Accommodation room on the left and the entrance passage on the right. Note that there is no reinforcement bars throughout tis bunker?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plan showing the arrangement of the bunker, the passage & the garage.

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Plan of a Vf51 half group shelter + garage..

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Accommodation room on the left and the entrance passage on the right.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Garage entrance with a nicely shaped roof.

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Plan of a Vf51 half group shelter + garage..

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Looking into the garage and the entrance into the bunkers passageway.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lettering scratched into the garage roof.
The lettering IV IX.

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The lettering IV IX.

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22 February 2014

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Tobruk one of 4 Vf58c that were here. We found two.

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Elevation of a Tobruk with the door down on the side of the ammunition/crew room ad steps up to the Tobruk gun position.

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Plan with the gun position on the left and ammunition/crew room on the right.

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Plan.

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22 February 2014

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Tobruk.
Cable inlets to the Tobruk which means all the bunkers here may have been linked by a telephone system..

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Either a small field telephone.

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Plan.

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22 February 2014

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Tobruk Vf58c.

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Plan.

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22 February 2014

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Another Tobruk.

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Plan.

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22 February 2014

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Tobruk. This one has a lot of brick rubble that may have been used in the construction of a trench attaching the Tobruk to other defences..

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22 February 2014

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Tobruk.

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22 February 2014

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Tobruk. The crest set into the wet concrete when this Tobruk was made was possibly a RAD or TODT Organisation unit number.

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RAD Reichsarbeitsdienst (translated to Reich Labour Service).

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The Todt Organisation (German: Organisation Todt) (OT) was a Third Reich civil and military engineering group in Germany named after its founder, Fritz Todt,.

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22 February 2014

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Open Ringstand Geschützstellung for a 10.5cm K29(p).There was four Ringstands for the four guns.

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10.5cm K29(p) the (p) which means it was a captured Polish gun..

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How it may have looked.

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Plan .

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22 February 2014

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Damaged Ringstand (Geschützstellung).

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Plan Geschützstellung.

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Plan R671 casemate.

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22 February 2014

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Michelmannstand. There were about three here and I believe two broken ones remain.

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Plan of a Michelmannstand.

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This is a model giving an idea of what it looked like. A machine-gun on a heavy stand would be placed on the top, giving it a firm base to fire from..

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Mg34 on a heavy mount.

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22 February 2014

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Remains.

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22 February 2014

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