Auderville Battery La Roche

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Heeres Kusten Battery(HKB) 4/706, with 6 pieces of 155 mm K416 (f) St.Chamond installed in tanks for 360° firing. From 1944, four R679 casemates are built. The structure includes a fire direction post R636, several R622 and R621 shelters, a generator shelter, ammunition bunkers, all defended by three 20 mm Flak guns and several tobruks for machine guns, minefields and barbed wire networks. We also note the presence of a Marine Seetakt-type radar.

Photo credit Christophe Marchand.

Heeres Kusten Battery(HKB) 4 706, with 6 pieces of 155 mm K416 (f) St.Chamond installed in tanks for 360° firing. From 1944, four R679 casemates are built. The structure includes a fire direction post R636, several R622 and R621 shelters, a generator shelter, ammunition bunkers, all defended by three 20 mm Flak guns and several tobruks for machine guns, minefields and barbed wire networks. We also note the presence of a Marine Seetakt-type radar.Photo credit Christophe Marchand.