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Gi326 Moutardier 'Insterburg'

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Gi326 Moutardier 'Insterburg'

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After our visit, I noticed this defence position on Google Earth and decided to include it to the website. Well now I am upgrading the pages and now have more information, I have also found this may have been an artillery batterie, probably 7.5cm Field Kannon. Maybe horse drawn. The three bunkers built to accommodate the troops, and buildings that may have been a canteen, barracks, etc. Also it could have been stabling for horses. They would have needed stables for at least 16 to 22 horses. So I may be right, I maybe wrong.

3 x R621 Group shelters.

Gi326 Moutardier 'Insterburg'

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Gi326 Moutardier 'Insterburg'

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Gi326 Moutardier 'Insterburg'

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Gi326 Moutardier 'Insterburg'

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A plan of the peninsular showing where Gi326 is located.

Gi326 Moutardier 'Insterburg'

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Gi326 Moutardier 'Insterburg'

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3 x R621 group shelters.
2 x Field gun position.
1 x Canteen and possibly a small bunker/shelter.

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Gi326 Moutardier 'Insterburg'

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16 - 18 R621 group shelters.
19-21 Tobruk's.
22-25 Field gun positions.
26-31 Infantry defence position.
32 Guard room.
The SHM plan is excellent but checking against what can be seen today I feel the SHM plan should be turned through 90°. So this is what I have done and it now fits the air photos. It states there were four field gun positions and a ring of defence positions. So it does look to have been a defended gun batterie of four field cannon. All very interesting.

Gi326 Moutardier 'Insterburg'

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The bunkers showing up well, on this 1957 air photo. A barrack block and canteen, ablutions, etc.
The R621 Group shelters could hold about nine men, which makes about 27 to 30 men. In the centre it also looks like a parade square.

Gi326 Moutardier 'Insterburg'

SHM 1946

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This picture shows barracks/stable buildings in between the two bunkers. The gun positions can also be picked out. The water on the right, may have been excavations for sand to build the bunkers?

Gi326 Moutardier 'Insterburg'

SHM 1946

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This is No.18 on the plan, with a building attached to the side, but it also looks as it has taken some damage on the left side..

Gi326 Moutardier 'Insterburg'

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R621 Group shelter.
Two entrances leading into a gas lock and one entrance into the main room. The room would have a stove, gas filter, tables & stools. Cupboards for kit. Nine bunks that can fold against the walls to make more room. A shelf to stack rifles. Two close combat embrasures to cover the entrances with rifle, or machine gun fire. An escape hatch to get out in an emergency. Attached a Tobruk for observation, defence. A speaker tube runs from the Tobruk down to one of the embrasures where the lookout can talk to the men inside.

Sprachrohr mouthpiece.

The layout of speaking tubes in a bunker.

Tobruk in defence.

Gi326 Moutardier 'Insterburg'

MKB Bunkertour

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Another vies of inside an R621 group bunker.