Wn21/Wn22 Octeville Le Moulin
Here there are two Wn's very close together. One Wn21 has several bunkers, but Wn22 has only one and a Tobruk and that now seems to be missing.
R630 machine gun bunker.
Vf/Skoda bunker.
R634 six embrasured turret.
Wn21/Wn22 Octeville Le Moulin
Wn21/Wn22 Octeville Le Moulin
Wn21 - we start at the Vf/B Stellen and the Vf Skoda bunker.
So we have: -
A
Verstärkt feldmäßig (light reinforced field bunkers) half a Vf3 type bunker.
A
Verstärkt feldmäßig Skoda bunker for a 4.7cm Pak 36(t).
To the right of the road an R622 twin group shelter.
Vf3 machine gun/observation bunker.
Vf Skoda bunker for a 4.7cm Pak 36(t).
R622 twin group shelter.
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WN21: -
1 x R630 machine gun bunker with armoured plate.
1 x R622 twin group shelter.
1 x Vf58c Tobruk.
1 x Vf/B Stellen.
1 x Vf/Skoda casemate.
1 x Skoda 4.7cm PAK 36(t).
R630 machine gun bunker.
Inside with an Mg34 machine gun.
Wn21 Octeville Le Moulin
Wn21 SHM 1946 plan.
Red are the bunkers remaining.
On the SHM plan it shows a row of four open emplacements + a Tobruk and a line drawn through them. I pressume this was or was going to be a batterie position and the guns and emplacements removed by 1944, as there are no signs of it in the 1944 air photo.
Skoda gun in its bunker.
11. Vf MG bunker.
15. R630 machine gun bunker.
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Wn21 30 September 1944 air photo. A lot of bomb craters about.
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Wn21 Vf/B Stellen a sort of half a Vf3.
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Wn21 Vf/B Stellen.
Plan of a Vf3.
Plan Vf/B Stellen.
MG bunker.
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Wn21 With a machine gun that could fire to the front and both sides.
Plan Vf/B Stellen.
Stripping a machine gun.
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Wn21 the viewing and firing slit.
Observation.
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Wn21 the entrance at the rear that would have run down to a trench connecting it to the Vf/Skoda and the R622 bunker.
Plan.
Plan of trenches.
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Wn21 Vf Skoda 4.7cm Pak 36(t).
Vf Skoda bunker.
Where to shoot at a Sherman tank.
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Wn21 Vf Skoda 4.7cm Pak 36(t).
On the left the guns commanders viewing slit and right the hole for a
770P4 metal plate to hold the Skoda fortress gun.
770P4.
770P4 ball joint to carry the 4.7cm Pak Skoda gun.
770P4 4.7cm Skoda gun.
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Wn21 Vf Skoda 4.7cm Pak 36(t).
Gun room.
Vf Skoda bunker.
Skoda gun crew.
4.7cm shell.
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Wn21 Vf Skoda 4.7cm Pak 36(t).
Gun room. Not sure what the round mark is for.
Construction.
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Wn21 Vf Skoda 4.7cm Pak 36(t).
"Eaten by dragons".
Quite a lot of battle damage probably around the 11 September by the 51st Highland Division advance to the coast.
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The attack by the 51st Highland Division on the 11 September 1944.
Operation Astonia the plan.
A. Break through the enemy defences between the 53 & 54 Eastings.
B. Destroy all enemy on the two high features west of R Lezarde.
C. Exploit this success by penetrating into Le Havre within Division boundary and, in conjunction with 51 Division, complete the capture of the town.
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Advancing Churchill tanks in Operation Astonia..
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Wn21 Vf Skoda 4.7cm Pak 36(t).
Rear entrance,
also it took a lot of shooting from behind.
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Wn21 Vf Skoda 4.7cm Pak 36(t).
Rear entrance
me fighting the brambles to get in..
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Wn21 Vf Skoda 4.7cm Pak 36(t).
770P4
How it should look.
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Wn21 Vf Skoda 4.7cm Pak 36(t).
The view of the 'Field of Fire'.
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Wn21 Vf Skoda 4.7cm Pak 36(t).
Gun commanders observation slit.
The gun commanders viewing slit.
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Wn21 R630 machine gun bunker. with armoured plate.
R630 machine gun bunker. with armoured plate.
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Wn21 R360 underneath all the trees.
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Wn21 R630 machine gun bunker. with armoured plate.
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Wn21 R630 machine gun bunker. with armoured plate.
The side wall.
Fitting a steel plate.
726P9 plate that may have been fitted here.
Heavy machine gun fitting.
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Wn21R630 machine gun bunker. with armoured plate.
Rear entrance and ventilation.
Plan.
1. Entrance.
2. Crew room.
3. Ammunition room.
4. Gun room.
5. Close combat room.
Steel plates and domes stacked in a railway yard somewhere in Europe.
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Wn21 R630 machine gun bunker. with armoured plate..
Close combat defence covering the rear door.
Plan.
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R630 machine gun bunker. with armoured plate.
Rear entrance and almost as far as we could get.
Plan.
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R630 machine gun bunker. with armoured plate.
View through the gap.
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R630 machine gun bunker with armoured plate.
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Wn22: -
1 x R634 six embrasured turret bunker.
1 x Vf58c Tobruk.
1 x 7.5cm Pak 40 anti-tank gun.
7.5cm Pak 40 anti-tank gun.
Vf58c Tobruk.
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Wn22 all that is left.
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Wn22 R634 six embrasured turret bunker.
You can just see the turret still in place.
R634 six embrasured turret bunker plan.
R634 model.
Machine gun through one of the embrasures.
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Wn22 R634 six embrasured turret bunker.
R634 six embrasured turret bunker plan.
20P7 six embrasured turret.
R634 six embrasured turret bunker plan elevation.
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Wn22 R634 six embrasured turret bunker.
Tobruk.
Entrance.
Crew room.
Gas lock.
Vetalation.
6 Embrasured turret.
Close combatdefence.
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Wn22 R634 six embrasured turret bunker.
R634 IGNF 1977 turret missing..
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Wn22 R634 six embrasured turret bunker at StP12 Ravenoville StP-Hurbert, K.V.U.Gruppe Marcouf, K.V.Gruppe Cotentin Ost.
R634 six embrasured turret bunker plan.
20P7 six embrasured turret.
R634 IGNF 1977 turret missing..
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Wn22 R634 six embrasured turret bunker at StP12 Ravenoville StP-Hurbert, K.V.U.Gruppe Marcouf, K.V.Gruppe Cotentin Ost.
20P7 turret..
20P7 inside.
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Wn22 R634, 20P7 dome six embrasure. On three levels, a periscope where the guns commander could spot for the machine gunner, other crew members would carry forward boxed ammunition and brush away spent cartridges or empty a spent cartridge bag. Another crew member would turn the handle on a fan to remove the foul gases made by the machine gun. So in the heat of battle a lot would be going on.
Machine gun embrasure.
20P7 six embrasured turret.
A periscope hole..
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