Atlantic Wall in the Netherlands

Flak Batterie Olmen => Baupunkt 82

1 = M183 Machinery bunker.

2 = M244 Fire control post for a heavy AA-gun site.

3 = Dutch building

4+5 = FL243-249 Bunker for anti-aircraft gun.

6+9 = FL246 ammunition storage

7 = bowling alley

8 = Observation post.

10 = Unknown bunker

FL244

entrance

way down from messstand.

 FL244. This is a fire control post for heavy anti aircraft batteries. Inside the circle, which can be seen on the photo, there was a range finder. The two squares were for observation.

The drawing above shows the rooms and the function of those rooms. The bunker is in a very bad condition.

Dutch bunker.

Whe don't know where this bunker was used for. The bunker has two steel doors (see picture). There is just one room behind these doors. These days it is partially under the sand.

 

FL243/249

entrance from outerside

shooitinghole innerside

This is de Fl243 / FL249. Both are the same bunkers. Under the ground there was a shelter, connected to the gun-site by a stairway. You see the gun-site on the photo(Left-up). 10.5 cm guns were placed here under steel cupolas.

On the innerside of the shelter a wall of bricks was made around the shootinghole. In the back wall of the shelter there is an emergency-exit. The emplacements were constructed in such a way that with the shooting-holes from the emplacements all trenches could be secured.

shootinghole outerside
left: The emergency exit. You can find the exit back in the drawing.

right: Stairway from shelter to emplacement.

 

FL246

There were two Fl246 ammunition bunkers. These bunkers were often placed at flak batteries.

 Observation-post

This is an observation post directed in-land. It is much smaller than the normal German observation posts. Some observation-posts of this kind have a steel roof, but this one carries the normal thin concrete roof. The picture on the left shows the covered trench from the bowling alley to the observationpost.

Bowling-alley

The picture on the left shows the bowling alley. It was just one big room with two entrances and a covered trench going to an observationpost.

Unknown bunker

We don't know what was the purpose of this bunker, but it looks like a quarter or so. Above the entrances there is an "X" painted. This kind of numbering can't be found on other places of the battery.

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