Les Iles Anglo-Normandes, Alderney.
W 202 Flak StP. 'Peil'

Alderney, W 202 Flak StP. 'Peil'

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Alderney a small island off the coast of the Cherbourg Peninsular one of the Channel Islands and a Crown dependency. 3miles x 1.5miles.
In June 1940 its entire population was removed and sent to either the other Channel islands or to Britain (most ended up in Glasgow). Then the German occupation forces arrived on the 2nd July. Hitler thinking that the British would attempt at recapturing, ordered it to become a Festung and later combined into the Atlantikwall.

150cm searchlight.

8.8cm shell loading.

2cm Flak with full crew.

Würzburg radar.

Alderney, W 202 Flak StP. 'Peil'

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Alderney, W 202 Flak StP. 'Peil'

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Ausboustand-karte Alderney.

Ausboustand-karte Alderney.

Alderney, W 202 Flak StP. 'Peil'

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W 202 Flak StP. 'Peil'
Plan of the Flak site with six 8.8cm and three 2cm and an M.G. AA.
6 x 8.8cm Flak.
3 x 2cm Flak 30.
1 x Würzburg radar.
1 x 150cm searchlight.
1 x AA machine gun.
Many ammunition stores and accommodation bunkers of field type and wooden huts.

Würzburg Radar.

8.8cm Flak.

2cm Flak 30.

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Victorian pump house. It is sat right in the middle of the 8.8cm flak site.

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War Department boundary stone. A type of stone I have never seen. Its tall and oblong with WD and the broad arrow on both points.

Plan of War Department stones.

Victorian water wagon.

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Boundary stone.
War Department, we now call it the MOD Ministry of Defence.
WD = War Department. The broad arrow is the government sign or Pheon. Most Government military fortifications and here on Alderney there are many. Usually stone 1 is the key stone and then they run right around the site. The Army had WD, Royal Navy had RN, the RAF had AM. 

WD - War Department.
RN -- Royal Navy.
AM -- Air Ministry.

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Victorian well and pump.

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The Victorian well and pump.
I do not know what powered it but it must have filled the cistern next to it and either pumped to forts around the island or water carts came here, filled up and then delivered.

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The water cistern looks as though it was upgraded by the Germans.

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water cistern.
Looking down into the water. The steel steps down inside look German??

Bunker steel steps.

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Early Flak position.

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Two of the ammunition niches.

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The view with the 8.8cm flak spread out around us here and in the far distance the radar Würzburg.

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Again looking towards the radar but here were at least three huts possibly wooden along here.

Würzburg radar.

heavy flak.

Range finder.

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The sky they were defending.

PRU Spitfire came over as often as they could be tasked.

 

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Zig Zag path below down to Fort Clonque.

 

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Found near the radar and one of the Flak positions.

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Looks like a ready ammunition space??

8.8cm Flak.

8.8cm ammunition.

 

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8.8cm Flak in field position. This flak position could be anywhere in Europe.

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Flak, radar and range finder.

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Heavy range finder that may have been in the OP here.
Before radar this was the way aircraft were looked for, targeted and then information on height and speed through telemetry would be transmitted the information to the guns.

Layout of a six gun flak batterie.

Telemetry.

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Würzburg radar instillation.
A Würzburg radar was a large dome

Würzburg radar.

Würzburg radar cabin.

Würzburg radar cabin inside.

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Würzburg radar instillation and a bunker fanatic, good friend and tour guide John.

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Würzburg radar instillation.

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Not sure what this was?? this could be a generator house to run the power for the flak site??

150cm searchlight in a field position possibly like the one that was here.

8kw generator..

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