StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
Here we are covering Turm 3 of 4.
T 1.
T 2.
T 3.
T 4.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
Plan of the batterie site of StP234 Batterie 'Hamburg' 3./M.A.A.260. Head Quarters were in the Château de Tourlaville.
Château de Tourlaville.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
Turm 2 with a Geschützstellung or open emplacement for a 24cm S.K. L./40 gun. The layout of T3 is very like T2 except it does not have the extra ammunition storage. Also the ammunition rooms do not have overhead monorail shell handling like T2.
Ammunition storage rooms on left.
Turm 2 monorail with a slot for it to pass through the door.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
When the trees are in leaf its well camouflaged.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
June 1944 after capture and we see our two stooges giving perspective to the picture.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
More summer foliage
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
Ah winter more can be seen.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
In this picture the camouflage in the concrete can be followed through to the contemporary photos.
US Army Signals Corps.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
Inside the Geschützstellung now very grown over.
Allied intelligence plan of T3.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
24cm S.K. L./40 gun.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
As far as I can work it out, this is Turm 3 somewhere under all the camouflage.
Its still down to picks and shovels..
Huge cranes to lower the guns into position.
A lot of cement mixers would have been used.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
Now moving around the back side and the access into the ammunition rooms.
Plan.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
Looking back out.
Plan.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
The three ammunition rooms. The gun would be behind the right wall.
details
Trolly's collecting ammunition.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
Two smaller rooms and one big one in the middle.
details
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
The centre store.
Plan.
Powder store.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
The last smaller room.
Plan.
Shell case..
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
The way out.
Plan.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T3
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