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Gatteville, train station.
AOK 7, KVA J1, KV.Gr. Cotentin Ost, KVU.Gr. Barfleur, train station, loading bay.

Driving over the D116, through the village of Gatteville towards the D10, you find a small road leading you south-west.
After about 600 meters at your right hand you see a high, long and big concrete wall that looks like a tank wall.
This is not a tank wall but a former loading bay built by the Germans to load enormous quantities of sand they needed for building the bunkers in the north of the Cotentin and especially for the Festung Cherbourg. There was a small railroad track from Barfleur towards Cherbourg, used for transporting farming products towards the city, for export to England through the harbour of Cherbourg. The Germans transformed it into an equipment transport system for there Atlantikwall building program. The old train station is still standing close to the bay. The line was abandoned in 1950.

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1x Loading bay, 50 meters.

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Gatteville.
AOK 7, KVA J1, KV.Gr. Cotentin Ost, KVU.Gr. Barfleur, Wn 125a.

Driving over the D116 towards Barfleur, you will pass Gatteville. At the east-side of the village on the top of a hill you see a very impressive and beautiful 612 bunker, looking out over the road and the surroundings.

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1x 612 Embrasured emplacement for assault guns without annex room.

France, Manche/Contentin, Gatteville. (5)

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7/2011
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Gatteville, near Pointe de Barfleur.
AOK 7, KVA J1, KV.Gr. Cotentin Ost, KVU.Gr. Barfleur, H.K.B. Gatteville / Pointe de Barfleur, Stp. 152.

This battery is located at the north side of the village of Gatteville, along the road leading towards the Pointe de Barfleur. Here also stands the "Phare de Gatteville", the highest lightning tower of Europe.
The battery is spread out over several meadows and pieces of private terrain and therefore hard to visit, with or without permission….!
Some of the bunkers or emplacements at this location are heavily restyled for other use and most of the times changed into some holiday function.

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2x 134 Ammunition bunker I.
1x 502 Twin group bunker.
1x 502 SK Twin group bunker, with Fire Control Post added.
2x 607 Ammunition bunker II.
4x 679 Casemate for pivoting guns (120 º) without annexes.
6x Gun emplacement for 15.5cm K420 (f).
1x Fa garage.

Gatteville - Phare de Gatteville, Le Havre de Crabec.
AOK 7, KVA J1, KV.Gr. Cotentin Ost, KVU.Gr. Barfleur, Le Havre de Crabec, Wn. 123.

Drive from the village of Gatteville to the lighthouse at the Point de Gatteville. Try to follow the road as far as possible along the coast towards Barfleur. The last part you have to walk or find the road inland to get to the fish factory located at Le Havre de Crabec.

The German built an impressive complex of mostly small bunkers and emplacements, connected by corridors and tunnels at this point. There are tunnels covered with concrete plates, some corridors are protected by obstacles built in so intruders couldn't run or shoot over long distances in the corridors.

Now a days some bunkers are used as storage for the fish factory, but the tunnels, corridors and some bunkers where also used as a water transport channel for the fish factory.

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1x Corridor with tunnels.
1x Corridor with corners.
1x Gun emplacement for 5cm KwK.
1x Searchlight emplacement.
2x Flak 2cm emplacement.
1x Sk shelter, with Tobruk.
1x Tobruk58c.
1x Tobruk69 mortar.
3x Vf shelter.
2x Wellblech shelter.

Gatteville - Phare de Gatteville.
AOK 7, KVA J1, KV.Gr. Cotentin Ost, KVU.Gr. Barfleur, Phare de Gatteville, Wn. 124.

Drive from the village of Gatteville to the lighthouse at the Point de Gatteville. The lighthouse of Gatteville was for some time the highest in the world, but now a days it is the third highest with its 75meters.
Behind the lighthouse stands the old one that is only 25 meters high and now is in use as a semaphore.

Some objects were built by the Germans during the war around the lighthouse. We found at the landside an anchor, but we don't know if it is German. At the eastside of the lighthouse we found a concrete building that could be a German one. Here you get no entrance because it is military terrain,

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1x Unknown building.
1x Anchor?

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7/2010
BP