FuMG "Fliege",
StP.Gruppe St Valéry en Caux,
K.V.A. 'E2', Haute-Normandie

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"Fliege"
4./Luft.Nachr.Rgt.53.
Luftwaffe station "Fliege", a night fighter radar station.
1 x L479 bunker for night fighter control 'Anton'.
'Anton' code name for this style of night fighter bunker.
2 x V229 radar sockets.
4 x Feldm troop shelters.
2 x Würzburg Riese Fu.SE 65.
1 x Freya Fu.MG 401 LZ.
1 x Freya Fu.MG 450.

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Now covered in trees and undergrowth.

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Standing on the cliffs to the north east of Saint-Valery-en-Caux and surrounded by agricultural land.
This is a night fighter radar control centre, with three radars and an L479 'Anton' bunker for managing the radar guidance of Luftwaffe fighters.
The L479 is a very large bunker constructed over two levels and featured over 20 rooms including an ultra-modern (for the time) Seeburg plotting room. This was based around a large glass table with overlaid maps which would have lights shone upon them to highlight the movement of Allied and German aircraft. Operators within the bunker received their information from a pair of Würzburg radars and relayed the tracking information back to the Luftwaffe pilots.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reconnaissance June 1944 from Maj. Robert Girvin, AC/AS Intelligence. Used in June 1944 issue of "Impact copied 6 June 1944. Release 28 March 1945 J.L.A.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zigzag minefield (A) helps protect radar station at Manneville-les-Plains, France. Accidental discharge is avoided by ditch, visible between white lines, instead of by wire. Trip-wire pickets are at (B). Note Giant Würzburg radar in left background.




 

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A Ju88 and an Me110 night fighters.

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Me110 night fighter.

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Heinz Wolfgang Schnaufer night fighter pilot with 121kills, here with an Me109.

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Google image showing what can be seen today.

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IGNF 1947 ----------------------------------------------------------- IGNF 1951

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1947/1951 images with bunkers showing up. Now a lot has gone to farming and wind turbines.

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The two FA machinery bunkers.

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WW2 German bunker generator. These are the type of generators that may have been inside these two large machinery bunkers.

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Fuel can.

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Fuel cans.

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MKB Bunkertour -----------------------------------------------------------AIR 40/3023

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Seeburg plotting table
The Seeburg plotting table (German: Seeburg-Tisch) was a mechanical plotting table used by the Luftwaffe in their operations rooms to track aircraft and coordinate night fighter operations. It was produced by Siemens and attached to the plotting table was a Freya radar and two Würzburg-Riese radars. Freya radar would pick up and track the bombing raids and an attached Würzburg radar would then select an individual bomber and track it. The other Würzburg would track the night fighter that was sent out to find and attack the bombers. This plotting was done on a large, translucent glass plate. The radar position of both enemy bombers and the friendly night fighters were displayed on the table as moving spots of light. The enemy was displayed with a red spot and a blue spot represented the night fighter.

 

 

 

 

 

Light emitters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glass table top.
All Seeburg drawings by MKB Bunkertour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AIR 40/3023 document drawing of a Seeburg table.

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L479 'Anton' ground floor.

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L479 'Anton' upper floor.

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L479 'Anton' elevation.

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Inside an 'Anton ' bunker

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Mine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ US Signals Corps

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Würzburg Riese Fu.SE 65.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Freya Fu.MG 401 LZ.

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9th USAAF 18 June 1945.