Atlantic Wall in The Netherlands
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In the middle the ground plan of the upper floor. Notice the second entrance, entrance with shootinghole. |
Besides one entrance for machinery, which was closed after bringing
machinery inside, there was just one entrance. It is an wide entrance with
on both sides space for placing communication equipment. You can see this
quite clear on the left. On the right you can see the shootinghole, from
the outside. Regretfully no identification number could be found. The number
must have been 3748 or 3751
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Inside the room for machinery. On the ground the bases, for the machines can be seen. |  |
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This is the only battery left in Holland designed for ship-turrets. Two guns with a 15cm callibre in each turret. The turrets had to be placed on a heavy cilindrical construction. The turrets were removed from the Gneisenau(II). This ship counted 12, 150mm weapons. These weapons were not the primary weapons on the ship. The ship was demolished early in 1942. The turrets which had to be placed here were probably the ones that could originally be found on the back of the ship. On the left a cut through the bunker. Notice the entrance for machinery and the climingway up to the turret. It is quite sure that the battery was not ready for use at the end of the war. |  |
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Stairway down. The stairway has two parts.
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The outside of the bunker. It is not small. |  |
This m219 is currently in use as observation-platform. The innerside is recentely closed.
