StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4
Here we are covering Turm 4 of 4.
T 1.
T 2.
T 3.
T 4.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4
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 T4
T4 - a set of Tobruk defences out in the front of the emplacement, some tunnels connecting them and trenches. A 7.5cm F.K.235(f) that could be used as defence or throwing up star shells if needed. A 2cm Flak AA gun. A munitions bunker.
The * are I believe the sites of explosions, either bomb, artillery or ships guns, or just areas that the ammunition was exploded by American Engineers post campaign.
US Engineers mine clearing.
Ammunition storage.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4
Plan of T4 Geschützstellung or open emplacement, showing the gun ring with a 360° turn and then two walls either sides (like horns) and an ammunition room behind. When built in full it would then have had a concrete and steel lid put over the top, making it a casemate and only able to fire forward. When we visited in 2000 it was very hard to find and access was very difficult, houses and gardens are built very close to it.
Guns crew.
Gun.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4
Elevation plans of the casemate when it would have been completed.
Elevation plans of the ammunition store this part completed but I believe destroyed by either bombing, shelling or after action, the use of blowing up all the remaining ammunition?.
A 2cm Flak was mounter onto the roof of this building.
2cm Oerlikon 30 Flak.
The Oerlikon emplacement.
Steel supports on Turm 2 that would have had a concrete lid placed over the top.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4
As you can see or not as the case maybe, this was hard in 2000 to find and get to.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4
1958 and you can see the 'Horn' walls damaged but still there, the rear E shaped ammunition storage has not been built yet and the long ammunition room has been destroyed. The Flak emplacement shows up very well.
Plan
The long ammunition room.
2cm Oerlikon Flak.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4
Getting closer and the camouflage starts to show up.
Camouflage.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4
24cm S.K. L/40.
This picture may have been here or was taken earlier when the batterie was at the Island of Norderney, Germany.
The Island of Norderney,
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4
Geschützstellung or open emplacement, showing the gun ring with a 360° turn and the two side walls built. No E shaped ammunition room at the back.
24cm S.K. L/40.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4
The pivot or hold fast mounting that the gun swivels on. A large steel frame set into the concrete of the emplacements base. All now removed and scrapped.
StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4
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