StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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Î'ile de Ré is situated just off the coast of La Rochelle. To get onto the island there is a toll to pay over the bridge.

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Marine Artillerie Abteilung.

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7.5cm F.K.231(f).

StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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StP Ro426 Karla .
Occupied by the 5a/le.MA.A.A.686. (Marine Artillerie Abteilung).
(LEICHTE MARINE-ARTILLERIE-ABTEILUNG 686)
2 x R612 casemates.
1 x Vf58c Tobruk.
2 x Vf bunkers. 2 x 7.5cm F.K.231(f).
2 x 2cm Flak30.
1 x 60cm searchlight.
3 x machine gun positions.

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Fortifications sur L'ile de Re, Chazette.

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Wooden style hutting used by the troops.

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7.5cm F.K.231(f).

StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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An SHM air photo showing the two R612 casemates.

StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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11 November, 2007

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Set into the sand dunes a small bunker with steps down to one room.

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Field kitchen.

StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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Set into the sand dunes a small bunker with steps down to one room, possibly one of the two Vf bunkers.

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StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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Window and a door leading into the room.

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StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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Plan of the STP with a Tobruk to the north, a small bunker/room under ground and two x R612 casemates.
On the roof of the northern R612 casemate was a 2cm Flak sitting on the roof. The second was set in sand dunes to the south. Both could be used as anti-aircraft or anti-landing defence. Originally the two field guns may have been in open ringstands and when the casemates were built, a small roadway between the ringstand and the casemate was added and the guns could be used in either. To the south of the position another 2cm Flak gun and a searchlight. The searchlight could be used at night to light up targets or to search for aircraft. Then with a Tobruk defence in the north and at least three machine gun positions and an observation post in the south.

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Tobruk being used as observation and defence.

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60cm searchlight.

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2cm Flak.

StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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Machine gun niche.

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StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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R612 casemate.

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Plan.

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R612 with a 2cm Flak on the roof.

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R612 casemate. The lip over the embrasure is to allow the rain to run around the opening. A nice flanking wall that has now been removed and no sign of the Flak gun.

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R612 casemate.

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Looking very battered.

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7.5cm F.K.231(f).

StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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The gun room with the exhaust that sucks foul air out of the gun room via a fan in the small ammunition room behind.

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Pipe work through a bunker.

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Extraction fan.

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StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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R612 casemate + Flak.

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2cm Flak on bunker roof.

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2cm Flak.

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Ammunition magazines.

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R612 casemate rear steel door type 753P3.

StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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The second R612 casemate.

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Both have lost their flanking walls.

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R612 casemate plan.

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StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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A very odd construction, probably built by the Marines that were stationed here, it looks to be a small bunker and a wall, possibly to mount a machine gun on and a small bunker to keep the machine gun safe and ammunition.

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R612 casemate plan.

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StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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There seems to be access from above.

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StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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The view down the beach the field gun was defending. There were several machine guns, an observation post and a searchlight.

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7.5cm FK 231(f) a French captured gun.

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60cm searchlight.

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Hooks to hold camouflage netting in place.

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StP Ro426 'Karla', St-Clément des Baleines

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