Wn Trou08 Criqueboeuf plage
Criqueboeuf plage is a small promontory to the east of Villerville and can be accessed from along the beach from Villerville or parking in Criqueboeuf and walking down to the beach.
5cm KwK 39 L/60.
Schnabelstand, (Vf observation).
Skoda 4.7cm gun.
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Plan of most of StP Gruppe Trouville, K.V.A.'G'.
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The walk from Villerville with debris all over the beach.
Even a fossil.
Barbed wire.
Foundations.
Pipes.
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1 x Vf Skoda bunker (SK Pak).
1 x Schnabelstand, (Vf observation).
1 x R141c.
1 x Vf58c.
1 x NR1694 Ringstand 5cm KwK.
1 x SK. (Bf66)
1 x 4.7 Pak K.36(t).
1 x 5cm KwK L/60 Pak gun.
Vf58c plan.
NR1694 Ringstand.
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141c.
A lovely old side valve engine.
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141c bunker.
A lovely old side valve engine.
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141c bunker on the left and the protective wall on the right. Some may have a Tobruk actually fitted into the wall to protect the rear door.
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Alarm!
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141c a closer look at that wall.
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141c entrance with its close combat window and the niche on the right may have held a speaking tube?
Speaking tube.
Plan.
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141c turning right
Plan.
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141c 19P8 door.
Plan.
19P8 steel door with a small glass window and a rubber gas seal.
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141c crew room. The uprights have hooks on to hold bed bunks. There would be steel strips bolted to the wall with corresponding hooks.
Bed in storage.
How the bunk beds looked.
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141c the bolts in the wall to hold the steel uprights.
Bunk fittings.
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The 141c close combat window.
48P8 close combat window.
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Frame of the gas pressure pump to overpressure the air inside the bunker to stop gas entering the bunker. The pump would be hand driven.
An almost complete system.
German gas mask.
Gas filter.
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Behind the 410P9 door is the escape hatch.
410P9 escape door.
Escape.
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Store room.
141c plan.
Rations.
Stores.
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141c showing the steps down into the bunker.
141c elevation.
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141c in the distance.
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Bf66.
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Escape with its steel steps broken away from a bunker.
The different ways of making the escapes.
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SHM plan.
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Ringstand for a 5cm KwK.
How it may have looked.
5cm KwK emplacement.
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Ringstand for a 5cm KwK.
Ringstand for a 5cm KwK and a Vf66 bunker.
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Ringstand for a 5cm KwK.
Bf66 and ringstand.
Ammunition niches all the way around.
Ammunition niche broken away.
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Ringstand for a 5cm KwK.
It may have looked very much like this one at Trou04.
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Ringstand for a 5cm KwK.
5cm KwK Pak L/60.
5cm KwK Pak L/60.
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Bf66 entrance.
Bf66 plan.
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Bf66 possibly the ammunition room.
Stacked ammunition.
Bf66 ammunition room.
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Bf66 crew room with the escape hatch in the rear wall.
Crew room.
Bf66 plan.
410P9 escape door.
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Schnabelstand, (Vf observation) and SK Pak..
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Schnabelstand, (Vf observation).
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Schnabelstand, (Vf observation). Note the camouflage effect above the main structure.
Schnabelstand, (Vf observation).
Vf Skoda bunker (SK Pak).
Schnabelstand, (Vf observation).
Observation room.
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Schnabelstand, (Vf observation).
Crew room.
Schnabelstand, (Vf observation).
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Schnabelstand, (Vf observation) with the tide coming in.
Observation room.
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Schnabelstand, (Vf observation).
Observation room.
Observation room.
Close up of the camouflaged concrete.
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Schnabelstand, (Vf observation).
During construction.
During construction.
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Schnabelstand, (Vf observation).
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Vf Skoda bunker (SK Pak).
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Vf Skoda bunker (SK Pak). The embrasure with the spent ammunition vat in front to catch the shells from the 4.8cm cannon.
An original picture of the bunker and I have outlined the camouflage effects painted on it.
4.7cm cannon shell.
4.7cm shell case.
4.7cm ammunition.
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Vf Skoda bunker (SK Pak) rear entrance.
Vf Skoda bunker (SK Pak) showing the chicane entrance.
Vf Skoda bunker (SK Pak) showing the chicane entrance.
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Vf Skoda bunker (SK Pak). The main door either its all been removed or it was never fitted??
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Vf Skoda bunker (SK Pak).
Vf Skoda bunker (SK Pak).
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4.7cm Skoda Pak. It was designed to fit inside a bunker and a special steel embrasure set into the concrete of the bunker.
The gun in situ.
Vf Skoda bunker (SK Pak).
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The special steel embrasure set into the concrete of the bunker. .
770P4 steel embrasure.
4.7cm shell case.
Vf Skoda bunker (SK Pak).
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Vf Skoda bunker (SK Pak). The observation slit where the gun commander would shout fire orders to the gunners.
Gun commander viewing through the slit.
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Vf Skoda bunker (SK Pak).
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Schnabelstand, (Vf observation) from SHM. Behind is the 5cm KwK Ringstand and gun.
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