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A long strand of sand with dunes behind them, a lovely walk even on a cold sunny November day.
Wn318 Heauville Plage
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2 x R676 casemates.
5 x Unterstands.
3 x Vf58c Tobruk's.
1 x Vf69 Mortar Tobruk.
1 x Tobruk for a Pz.T. FT17 (f).
2 x 5cm KwK L/42 guns.
2 x 4.7cm Pak K.36(t) guns.
R676 casemate for a 4.7cm Pak K.36(t) gun.
Vf69 mortar Tobruk.
Tobruk for a Pz.T. FT17 (f).
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Plan of the minefields.
Bouncing Betty.
Mine laying.
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The old military road winds its way out onto the sand dunes.
Site Natural Protégé Dunes D'Héauville.
There seem to be many hut bases in this area, they may be barracks for the Wn's along here or they may be post war French military hutting.
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The old military road winds its way out onto the sand dunes.
More hut bases.
On the track is this base for a gun (French?).
Shell/bomb craters, this one full of water. This whole area was French military range until recently.
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R676 casemate.
The view from the front with Cap de la Hague nuclear power station behind on the hill.
R676 casemate for a 4.7cm Pak K.36(t) gun.
4.7cm Pak K.36(t) gun.
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R676 casemate.
Looking at the front with L/R, flanking wall, gun embrasure, escape, above periscope and rear flanking wall.
Escape plan.
Periscope.
Skoda guns crew.
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R676 casemate.
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R676 casemate.
Schie§scharten-Rahmen für 4.7cm Pak und Hülsenabschleusung.
Translated to:
Gun slit frame for 4.7cm Pak and case evacuation.
Evacuation is the removal of the fired shell case down a tube into a shell store under the front of the casemate.
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R676 casemate.
The rear entrance.
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R676 casemate.
Inside the gun room.
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R676 casemate.
Inside the gun room not here I am afraid but at StP10 Hameau Mottet on Utah Beach area.
Gun commander.
Gun crew.
4.7cm Pak gun.
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R676 casemate.
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R676 casemate.
The guns view.
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R676 casemate.
Arrowed is the command cable in its heavy steel sheath.
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Unterstand.
Plan.
Plan of an Unterstand.
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Unterstand.
Home from home ideal holiday cottage.
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Man in red coat lost in dunes.
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Vf69 mortar Tobruk.
A bunker to hold an 81mm mortar and its crew.
Mortar crew.
81mm mortar.
Mortar ammunition.
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Vf69 mortar Tobruk.
The mortar hole and the observation/machine gun Tobruk.
Not the way the mortar hole is molded to shape.
Observation.
Vf69 plan.
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Vf69 mortar Tobruk.
Gun room on the left and ammunition room on the right.
Vf69 plan.
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Unterstand rather damaged..
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Unterstand.
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Unterstand inside and just a room.
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Unterstand damage, this whole area was a firing range for the French army and I feel this was one of theirs..
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Unterstand another view.
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Nr1694 Ringstand for a 5cm KwK gun.
Nr1694 plan.
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Nr1694 Ringstand for a 5cm KwK gun.
Ammunition niches all around the inside of the wall.
Nr1694 plan.
Ammunition box.
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Wn317 to the north.
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Cap de Flamand Sémaphore and Wn321 4./H.K.A.R.1262 with 4 x 17cm K.18 guns. 4 x R688 casemates planned and may have been started construction.
17cm K.18 guns.
R688 casemate.
R688 casemate.
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R646 casemate.
The second casemate facing north.
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R646 casemate.
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R646 casemate.
Rear entrance.
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R646 casemate.
Rear entrance.
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R646 casemate.
Gun room full of sand.
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R646 casemate.
Gun room.
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R646 casemate.
1: Flanking wall.
2: Pit to hold fired shell cases.
3: Escape.
4: Periscope.
4.7cm shell case.
The yellow tube takes the fired cases down to the pit out in front.
Skoda 4.7cm gun.
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Tobruk for a Pz.T. FT17 (f).
The hexagonal turret ring, turret and the different guns that could be fitted into the bunker.
FT turret.
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Tobruk for a Pz.T. FT17 (f).
I think its this type of U Tobruk.
details
FT tank.
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