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7/2011
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Cherbourg, Port des Flamands.
AOK 7, KVA J1, Festung Cherbourg, KV.Gr. Cherbourg, KVU.Gr. Cherbourg See, Wn. 209.

This location lies at the east side of Cherbourg, when you pass the main harbour facilities.
The bunkers are situated on a kind of island, used in the past as a military base to protect a lock entering one of the inland harbours.

The 501 on the terrain is re-used after the war by building a concrete building to place and protect some kind of a radar installation for harbour and/or military use on top.
Please ask permission before you enter, the bunkers are now in private hands!

Types:
1x 134 Ammunition bunker I.
1x 501 Group bunker. (extended after the war for radar post)
1x 612 Embrasured emplacement for assault guns without annex room.
France, Manche/Contentin, Port des Flamands.
© bunkerpictures - Type 501 with radar post
© bunkerpictures - Type 612