Joris Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Three weeks ago I was in IJmuiden for a day out with the company and in the dunes there was a German gun battery. Here are the pictures. 1. Overview of the gun battery, 4 gun emplacement bunkers and one fire guidance bunker (hard to see on this picture). 2. 1st gun battery bunker, bricked up but you are still able to climb in. 3. Ammunition bunker at the rear of the gun bunker. 4. Rear of the second gun bunker and a view of the fire guidance bunker. 5. The fire guidance bunker 6. 3rd gun battery bunker, what you can't see on this picture is that the bunker is virtually intact. It still has all the iron in it to secure the gun and the camo nets. You don't see that in Normandy!. 7. AA platform, again the bolts are still there! 8. 4th gun bunker, here you see that the bolts and the rings are still there. 9. Ammo bunker 10. Command and control bunker, this huge bunker stretches from the just beyond where I took this picture to the other AA opening halfway up the picture. Also there were some "Tobruk" bunker of which I did not take any pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted October 3, 2007 Author Share Posted October 3, 2007 1. Another overview of a part of the bunker system 2, 3 and 4. A few hundred meter behind it was a U-Boat station, only one of the bunkers (the grey mass behind the blue cylinders) remain but they are MASSIVE!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 WOPW!!!! some good ones there Joris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Joris, do you evr get to the area round Middleburgh,Oostkapelle and Domburg. Thats the area where the dikes were blown isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Nice set of pics Joris. :tup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted October 4, 2007 Author Share Posted October 4, 2007 Joris, do you evr get to the area round Middleburgh,Oostkapelle and Domburg. Thats the area where the dikes were blown isn't it? No I hardly ever go there, it's too far from my house to just go there.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 3rd pic,second set certainly gives some idea of the scale, of this structure. Great pic's, Cheers Mate, :tup: All the best, Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted October 4, 2007 Author Share Posted October 4, 2007 Here it is on Google Maps, it's really massive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ford 369 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Great pictures,it is hard to imagine the size of these things until you see them in the flesh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Do you know what use or uses have the former Sub pen's been put to since the war ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted October 5, 2007 Author Share Posted October 5, 2007 It's being used by a cement company new, don't know what it had been used for before that. Edit: On this website there is some more info on the bunkers: http://home.tiscali.nl/bunkerarchief/sbb/sbb_en/sbb_en_frame_pagina_index.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Superb post Jozza! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 It's being used by a cement company new, don't know what it had been used for before that. Edit: On this website there is some more info on the bunkers: http://home.tiscali.nl/bunkerarchief/sbb/sbb_en/sbb_en_frame_pagina_index.htm It's in Dutchless Joris :dunno: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted October 6, 2007 Author Share Posted October 6, 2007 Click on the small British flag and part of it will be in English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 What a great translation! :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 Click on the small British flag and part of it will be in English. :tup: Cheers for that.......... :-D All one can say is, Blimey............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted October 8, 2007 Author Share Posted October 8, 2007 Yeah, it's a lot bigger then Batterie-de-Longue in Normandie and I thought that one was massive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.