Wn131 Pointe de Fréval
There is a car park by the sea and a nice walk both ways along the coast path Gr223. On the right side are the holiday cottages & caravans and interspersed with them are three Tobruk´s a few bunkers and a bunker & Tobruk on the rocks.
Plan.
Wn131 Pointe de Fréval
Wn131 Pointe de Fréval
Wn131 Pointe de Fréval
1 x 5cm KwK Ringstand Nr1694.
1 x Vf69 mortar Tobruk.
3 x Unterstands or Vf bunkers.
3 x Tobruks.
1 x FT17 Turm.
Nr1694 5cm KwK Ringstand.
Vf69 mortar Tobruk.
FT17 Turm.
Wn131 Pointe de Fréval
Cap Lévi "Seeadler Wn201a,b,c,d" and Light House.
Wn131 Pointe de Fréval
FT17 Turm.
A U shaped Tobruk with a captured French tank turret an FT type mounted on the top.
FT17 Turm.
Plan.
PZ.FT17 turret.
Wn131 Pointe de Fréval
FT17 Turm.
A commanding view of the bay and left flank.
MG331(f) machine gun, a captured type with a round magazine.
This FT has a 3.7cm mounted gun. So it could have either type.
FT French tank of the type the turret was used for.
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VF unterstand
VF built unterstand or just a small bunker. Very cramped, probably only six to nine men inside and an Eisenpfahel barbed wire post still set into the ground.
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Tobruk
Tobruk
Tobruk design.
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VF unterstand
Another bunker with a nice little holiday home sat on the top.
VF bunker.
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Tobruk
There looks to be something else in the lawn as well?? What looks like a Tobruk with flowers in is an outcrop of stone, caught me out as well.
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Tobruk
It does look a VF8 type with parallel sides.
Vf8 type.
Vf8 type.
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Tobruk
This Tobruk covered the right flank with the 5cm KwK and mortar Tobruk behind (to its right, I did not find them on my visit)
Nr1694 ringstand for 5cm KwK Pak gun.
5cm KwK 39 L/42 type that was probably here.
8.1cm gr w 278(f) mortar
Vf69 mortar Tobruk plus an observation and defence Tobruk..
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Tobruk
Plan.
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Tobruk
This may have sat above on the cliff edge and fallen into the sea??
Vf8 type.
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Tobruk
Wn131 Pointe de Fréval
Down on the beach I noticed this, I have no idea what it is/was.
Wn131 Pointe de Fréval
Down on the beach I noticed this, I have no idea what it is/was.
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Looking back on the Pointe
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Locations.
Wn131 Pointe de Fréval
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