Batterie Grainval

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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.

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3./H.K.A.A.799.
1 x Leitstand on the coast.
6 x 15.5cm guns in open emplacements (Geschützstellung).
Several ammunition bunkers.

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Turntable.

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Gun fitted to a turntable.

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Vf Leitstand.
Right out on the cliff edge is the Vf Leitstand, it could have been built for the batterie to direct its fire.

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Vf observation Leitstand.

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IGNF 30/09/1944

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Vf Leitstand.
There seems to be quite a lot of trenches running around the area.

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Vf Leitstand.
A closer look at it from a long way away.

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Batterie positions.
Six Geschützstellung laid out in a U shape and below in the valley are the ammunition bunkers.

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AIR 14/1215 Enemy batteries - coastal illustrations

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A Geschützstellung under construction early in the war.

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IGNF 15/09/1947

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Severe bombing.
You can see from this 1947 air photo, the severe bombing that some of these batteries took when not in casemates.

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AIR 14-3676 - War Album 1944 Vol VI - 01 Le Havre

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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.

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Halifax bombing.

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RAF Bostons.

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Ammunition on the road in to Grainval.

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Ammunition on the road in to Grainval.

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Claude Monet 1882

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