Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Batterie de Fermanville la Judee Batterie 'Ostmark' 5./AR 1709.
4 x 10.5cm K.331(f) 4 x R669 casemates.
These casemates were not completed and the guns never used in them.
The guns would have been used in local field positions.
Horses artillery.
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 1 is set in some woodland and inaccessible.
Turm 2 is in a farm yard.
Turm 3 & 4 in fields.
The ammunition magazine is under a barn near the track.
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
The batteries job would have to cover this part of .
R669 casemates for a field gun.
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 1
Four standard R669 casemates for a field gun.
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 2
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 2
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 2
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 2
Where the door would have fitted.
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
View along the gun line.
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 3
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 4
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 3
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 3
From behind.
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Inside showing where the gun sat and where the small opening to fire through. We did not enter any of the casemates as they were private. This one was open, We did have permission from the farmer to look into the magazine.
Plan of the inside.
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
This is inside one of the R669 here.
Two small ammunition rooms are located each side of the rear door.
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Under the barn is an ammunition magazine and the shells could be rolled out through the small niche under the barn. They would then be carried to replenish the casemates.
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Ammunition magazine
You can just see two narrow gauge railway lines used as reinforcement.
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Ammunition magazine
The entrance is down the steps and the niche is where the red and white road marker is
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Ammunition magazine
The entrance is down the steps and the niche is where the red and white road marker is.
Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
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