Wn455 ferme Saint-Acaire (StP La Vaquerie)

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Part of StP La Vaquerie one of three Wn's in the StP.
Stützpunkt - A StP was geographical larger and more strongly armed. Normally a StP consisted of several Wn. Normally Wn and StP were occupied by Heer troops. Additional complexes, e.g. radar positions or battery positions were often located within a StP. Here troops of different branches of service were used. The tasks within StP were then divided depending upon the order of the troops of the different armed services, e.g.: Heer - defence, navy - naval coastal battery, Air Force - radar equipments/Flak.
Wiederstandsnest - The smallest position in the German defence arrangement was the Widerstandsnest (Wn). A Wn was occupied of one or more groups. A group consisted of 9 soldiers and a sub-officer. The armament consisted in the mostly of light weapons. Depending upon individual combat order the armament by heavy weapons e.g. antitank defence cannons was strengthened.
´SK´ (Sonder Konstruktion) - Special construction.
Axis History.        HEER - Army

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Wn455 ferme Saint-Acaire (StP La Vaquerie)

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Wn455 ferme Saint-Acaire (StP La Vaquerie)

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Wn455 ferme Saint-Acaire (StP La Vaquerie)

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Wn455 ferme Saint-Acaire (StP La Vaquerie)
R622/SK

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An R622 twin group bunker with a wasser tank.

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R622 twin group bunker.

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MKB Bunkertour.

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Wn455 ferme Saint-Acaire (StP La Vaquerie)

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StP la Vaquerie

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Plan of the main defence. Three individual Wn's, two with only R622 twin group bunkers and the third Wn454 with the major defence..

Wn455 ferme Saint-Acaire (StP La Vaquerie)

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The size of the Cherbourg defence, there was also many anti-tank ditches built covering the eastern, southern & western approaches to the city.

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Plan of how to build an anti-tank ditch.

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Water filled ditch.

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Road block.

Wn455 ferme Saint-Acaire (StP La Vaquerie)

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Wn455 ferme Saint-Acaire (StP La Vaquerie)
R622/SK

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1 x R622 twin group bunker.
2 x Vf58c Tobruks.

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Tobruk defence.

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Water tank.

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MKB Bunkertour.

Wn455 ferme Saint-Acaire (StP La Vaquerie)

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Wn455 ferme Saint-Acaire (StP La Vaquerie)
R622/SK

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Tobruk defence.

The second picture from a captured Tobruk in Courseulles showing the ring to house a machine gun..

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A fitting for a machine gun onto the Tobruk ring.

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Wn455 ferme Saint-Acaire (StP La Vaquerie)

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American troops advance on Cherbourg passing one of the defence bunkers.