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Wn Trou013 Les Aubets

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A battery of four 7.62 Field Kannon that would have been used to cover the North side of Trouville but as they were mobile, they could be moved around at will.

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Batterie 1./A.R.1711.
4 x 7.62 F.K. guns.
3 x 2cm Flak AA guns.

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1944 German plan

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Trou13 was in fields about a kilometre to the east of Les Aubets. The battery would have been in field positions (not in concrete ringstands or casemates). They may have been horse drawn. They covered the beaches and town of Villerville.
When the Merville batterie retreated from Normandy, they collected their horses from the fields and found they were too fat and unfit, due to not being used enough. So they exchanged their fat horses for farmers draught horses.

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Allied plan of the batterie pre D-Day (from SD)

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Le Manoir Chateau (Villerville) Medium Troop

Four 150mm, (5.9in. howitzers. Range 14,600yards. Weight of shell 96lbs. Rate of fire 2 r.p.m. Guns in open circular pits 32 feet in diameter, approximately 100 yds apart.
Accommodation : Underground shelters, probably NOT concrete.
Secondary Armament : Three light AA guns.

Night shoot.

Horse artillery.

Americans using a captured 7.62 F.K.

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Bundesarchiv

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Artillery in training.

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IGN --- from SD

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Air photo post war showing the four gun positions, the command post and trenches. A barbed wire fence surrounded the site. There may even have been mine fields also surrounding the batterie.

Wiring in.

Trenches.

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This picture is of a captured 7.62cm F.K. re used by the Americans. The Americans were very willing to use captured guns and vehicles, the British on the other hand, tended not to.

7.62 ammunition.

2cm Flak 30. There may have been about three 3cm Flak guns here.