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709.Infantry Division.
2./919 Grenadier Regiment. Lt. Rowerier, HQ at Wn06 Pouppeville.
Wn02 Lt. Ritter.
I do not think there were many or any defences here just a lot of barbed wire and probably a few mines. There was possibly a mortar and a pair of machine gins in field positions. And more defences were planned and under construction
Mine laying.
Bouncing Betty mine.
Mortar in Field defence.
Utah Beach and the defence & advance.
Pouppeville.
Map.
This is one of the drains blocked up to flood the low ground behind the beaches. la Grande Crique Rau.
Crossing the inundation.
An allied Bigot map of the sluice defences..
Photo reconnaissance 1943.
A photo reconnaissance Spitfire having its camera changed.
Houesville and the protected lock.
Houesville and the modern lock.
Wn01 Grand Vey.
Eisenpfahel German barbed wire defence posts.
Eisenpfahel German barbed wire defence posts more by the houses.
Houesville.
L'Épinette.
Map.
L'Épinette note the upside down Eisenpfahel that may have had a lamp placed on its top. I have now seen many of these in Normandy.
Bunker lamp.
Lampe-WK2 Wehrmacht Eisemann.
Eisenpfahel.
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