Batterie Grainval
A batterie of six 15.5cm guns, started early in the war and by about 1943 it looks as though they had all been moved. Usually due to very heavy bombing which brought on the order to casemate batteries in 1943. There were no casemates built here for the guns and I am not sure what happened to them.
Batterie Grainval
Batterie Grainval
3./H.K.A.A.799.
1 x Leitstand on the coast.
6 x 15.5cm guns in open emplacements (Geschützstellung).
Several ammunition bunkers.
Turntable.
Gun fitted to a turntable.
Batterie Grainval
Vf Leitstand.
Right out on the cliff edge is the Vf Leitstand, it could have been built for the batterie to direct its fire.
Vf observation Leitstand.
Batterie Grainval
Vf Leitstand.
There seems to be quite a lot of trenches running around the area.
Batterie Grainval
Vf Leitstand.
A closer look at it from a long way away.
Batterie Grainval
Batterie positions.
Six Geschützstellung laid out in a U shape and below in the valley are the ammunition bunkers.
Batterie Grainval
A Geschützstellung under construction early in the war.
Batterie Grainval
Severe bombing.
You can see from this 1947 air photo, the severe bombing that some of these batteries took when not in casemates.
Batterie Grainval
Just part of a picture showing heavy bombing in the Le Havre area. This increased into 1944 as more daylight raids could be carried out and getting much better accuracy.
Halifax bombing.
RAF Bostons.
Batterie Grainval
Ammunition on the road in to Grainval.
Batterie Grainval
Ammunition on the road in to Grainval.
Batterie Grainval
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