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Driving into Etretat from Yport we passed by the railway station. Now not part of the main French railway and run by railway enthusiasts. We did not know if or where any defences were here, so we were not looking for any. It may be worth having another look around one day.

Pz.T 3.7cm KwK 144(f).

Pz.T 3.7cm KwK 144(f).

Pz.T 3.7cm KwK 144(f).

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1944 defence plan

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The army were obliged to update plans to inform their HQ what and where the defences were. These were regularly done over the years they were in occupation.
1 x R612. ?
1 x Unterstand.
1 x Vf67.
1 x Pz.T 3.7cm KwK 144(f).
1 x 7.5cm F.K.231(f). ?

Horses working on beach defences.

Mine laying.

Delivering beach obstacles.

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Geoportail 1945

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The station is on the outskirts of the town where most local troop movements would have come and gone and also where a lot of the materials like the steel & concrete would have come in.

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A very early picture of the station.
The Ifs to Étretat line is a short, 15 km, single-track, standard-gauge French railway branch located in the Seine-Maritime department which served the seaside resort of Étretat from the Ifs station located on the line from Bréauté-Beuzeville to Fécamp. Inaugurated in 1895, it has been closed to all traffic since 1972, but not being deferred, it has experienced a new life as part of a small tourist railway. (Wiki)

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The station, now a private house and the rails have been removed. In WW2 this would be the station for Leave trains, the soldiers would queue for hours awaiting a train to take them back home and vis versa. This is the station tat they would arrive at from home.

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The railway heading out of the station where it turns quite a sharp right along the ridge. Full steam trains must have huffed and puffed up this hill.

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IGN 1945

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Looking at the 1945 air photos I can see where a barbed wire defence ran around the south side of the station.

This is how it would look, also as the grass grew. The line of the defence would show up very well on air photos. That way the Allies new the size of the defence..

Screw picket barbed wire defence.

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SHM 1946

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SHM plan of Et02.
4. Tobruk tank turret.
5. Citerne was the railways reservoir.
9. possibly a quarry tunnel re used.

4. Tobruk tank turret.

4. Pz.T 3.7cm KwK 144(f).

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WW1 many hotels in Etretat became hospitals first for the British and then the Americans. Casualties would arrive by train and taken down the the sea front hotels that were turned into hospitals to be cared for.

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10046 bus for lightly wounded at the station.

VAD nurses.

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Internet May1917

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They look like Sunbeam ambulances in the Rue Monge May1917

Sunbeam ambulance.

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le cote d albatre – etretat cimetière

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The original plots I & II are down below and this one is Plot I of the Church yard extension.

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