Ca039 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
2 x R668 small nine man bunkers.
R668.
What it may have looked like inside.
Ca39 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
Ca39 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
Showing where in the farm these two bunkers are.
1947 air photo.
Ca39 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
The farmyard from the road. One bunker can be seen just to the left of the silo.
Ca39 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
The track to the farm.
Ca039 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
The old farm house.
The bunkers were made to look like farm buildings with added roofs.
Ca039 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
R669
The first R668.
Now covered in undergrowth we could not find the entrance.
Ca39 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
R668
Another view of the first R668. The camouflage roof has a very high peak.
Ca039 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
R668
Ca39 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
R668
The second R668. This one is accessible via the escape tunnel.
R668 small six man bunker.
How an escape tunnel exit works.
410P9 escape door.
Ca039 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
R668
The second R668. Looking into the escape tunnel. Set into the slots would be about ten shutters (picture below), behind them (outside) the tunnel was filled with gravel.
Escape shutters.
Ca39 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
R668
Escape tunnel looking out from the crew room.
Ca39 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
R668
Crew room for nine men.
The piece of metal on the floor is the escape hatch door.
This must have been a very cramped place with six men in here and all their kit.
It would have been very cramped.
Some information here
410P9 escape door.
Ca39 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
R668
Bunk fittings on the wall.
Three bunks hooked to the steel upright bolted to the wall, then a chain connects then to the roof hook.
Ca39 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
R668
Bunk fittings in the roof.
Ca39 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
R668
The door to the gas lock.
Plan.
Ca39 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
R668
Entrance may have had a 491P2 Gittertur gate closing it off.
491P2 Gittertur.
Ca39 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
R668
Looking into he entrance.
Ca39 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
R668
Bunker under construction.
Ca39 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
R668
Plan of the R668 at Ca39 from @MKB Bunkertour.
Ca039 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
Eisenpfahel barbed wire fence stake.
There were quite a few dumped here.
Some information here
Some information here
Ca039 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
The view from the road.
You can see the bunker and its pitched roof.
Ca039 Hourdel Ferme de la Caroline
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