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Rear defence bunker of the defences of Gatteville Batterie.

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Horse artillery.

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7.5cmF.K.

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German plan June 1944

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The R612 casemate covers the SE side of StP152. 7./Heers Kusten Artillerie Regiment1261. StP152 was a huge, six open emplacement (Geschützstellung) for 15.5cm K.420(f) guns and then four R679 casemates plus ammunition and crew bunkers. All round defence were four Wn's123, 124, 125 & 125a.

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15.5cm K.420(f).

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R679 casemate plan.

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FCP, Leitstand/SK.

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Geoportail 1972

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1 x R612 Casemate.
1 x 7.5cm F.K.

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R612 Casemate plan.

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75cm F.K. 235(b).

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Crew inside a bunker.

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Geoportail 1975

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This is a 1975 air photo of the casemate showing the flanking wall and the glasses plate in front of the guns embrasure.

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R612 Casemate plan.

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Bunker construction.

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R612 casemate.

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R612 casemate.

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R612 casemate side view.

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The view of where the gun covered. Wn123/Wn124 to Wn122 Barfleur. T

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Plan.

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R612 casemate the rear wall.

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R612 casemate. Camouflage nets were extensively used and the reinforcing rods were left proud and then bent over so that a net could be hooked over them.

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Nets being laid out.

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Reinforcement rods.

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R612 casemate the full rear view.

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494P2 type door possibly should have been fitted.

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Rear (ventilation). Before firing the rear doors are opened, gun fires, fumes from the gun fill the gun room. A fan in the rear corner would be started up and the smoke & fumes sucked out of the gun room via the rear vent. The vent is a heavy steel construction and a perforated cove is places over the top to stop explosives placed into to the system such as a grenade.

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Rost 200mm.

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The ventilation system plan.

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Extractor fan.

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21 November 2009

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Mo86c Batterie, Versendoket 2/A.R.266., St-Pol de Leon, Brittany.

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This is the information stenciled to the casemate wall in Brittany, explaining to open the rear doors.

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Extractor fittings, an electric fan would have been fitted between these two pipes.

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Another fan fitting.

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Extraction hood in the gun room ceiling.

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R612 casemate rear door with two ammunition niches each side.

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Gun room.

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494P2 type door.

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10.5cm ammunition.

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R612 casemate ammunition niches in the side.

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Ammunition storage.

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10.5cm ammunition.

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Gun room

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There would have been a turntable, often made of a metal frame that the gun pivoted on.

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Turntable for a field gun..

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Plan

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Gun room plan

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Plan.

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7.5cm F.K.

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F.K. Field Kannon about to shoot. The sort of field Kannon that may have been used here.

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R612 casemate view out of the rear door.

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R612 casemate slightly extended side walls on this model with earth piled up around the sides to add to camouflage and also some extra protection..

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R612 Casemate

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R612 casemate the concrete in front of the embrasure is the Glacés plate. This was designed to deflect incoming shells away from the embrasure.

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R612 casemate how the gun may have looked inside the casemate with wooden doors covering the embrasure.

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Gun room.

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Crew.

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Gun room.

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R612 casemate the gun would have been part of a four gun batterie of horse artillery, split up and placed in different bunkers along this coast. The horse and limber may have been retained and the horse used to collect the rations and the limber to store extra ammunition. Stored usually in local stable/barns of the farm the bunker was sat on. Also the crew of the casemate may also have been billeted in the farm house.

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Horse artillery.

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