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France, Somme, Cayeux sur Mer (4).

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5/2007
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Cayeux sur Mer, Phare de Brighton.
AOK 15, KVA E1, Stp.Gr. Cayeux, Stp. Ca 03.

Follow the coast road from Cayeux s/m towards Le Hourdel or Brighton and you will see the first bunker on your left hand, just after you have passed the lighthouse. The other bunkers are scattered over the dunes behind the first bunker.

This is quit an interesting site. The only two St. bunkers, a 612 (half destroyed) and the 668 personnel bunker (buried in the sand) are supported by lots of smaller bunkers and barracks. There is a very nice personnel bunker with an attached Mg. position that overlooks the dunes and the sea. A concrete building looks a lot like some sort of garage, maybe for a searchlight? Another interesting bunker is the Wurzburg FuSE 65 radar combination; the socle of the radar is attached to a small bunker and to a Wellblech construction. Very strange and complicated because there is no way trough the Wellblech to the other bunker underneath the Wurzburg socle.

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1x 668 Small six-man bunker.
1x 612 Embrasured emplacement for assault guns without annex room.
1x Socle for Würzburg Riese radar, FuSE 65.
1x Wellblech.
1x Vf shelter, with attached Mg. position.
2x Vf shelter.
1x Searchlight garage. (?)
1x Tobruk58c.
1x Unknown.

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5/2007
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5/2007
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Cayeux sur Mer, Centre ville.
AOK 15, KVA E1, Stp.Gr. Cayeux, Stp. Ca 05.

In the centre of Cayeux sur Mer, it's directly behind the boulevard and behind the first line of houses.

The first bunker, a 610 command post is fully covered and lies at the parking pace. Note the nice concrete camouflage. But on the other side of the street, behind a wall lies the forgotten 501 personnel bunker. The bunker is completely overgrown but above the entrance the plate with Ca 05-322 is hardly visible. Unfortunately the entry was closed.

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1x 610 Battle headquarters for strengthened company & battery officers.
1x 501 Group bunker, with nr. 322.

Cayeux sur Mer, Plage sud.
AOK 15, KVA E1, Stp.Gr. Cayeux, Stp. Ca 06.

Follow the boulevard to the south, halfway you see on your left hand, between the apartments, a hidden 612.

The bunker looks huge when it's uncovered and lies free between the small houses. The bunker is closed at both sides, so there is not much to see. A few meters further down the road, at the end of the boulevard, on the terrain of "Delarue S.A.S." lies a beautiful 667. The bunker is hardly visible from the road because of vegetation. This 667 is absolute a beauty, very clean and with lots of camouflage patterns on the concrete.

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1x 612 Embrasured emplacement for assault guns without annex room.
1x 667 Small embrasured emplacement for 5cm tank gun.

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Cayeux sur Mer, sud.
AOK 15, KVA E1, Stp.Gr. Cayeux, Battery.

Follow a small unpaved road from the south end of the boulevard, along the sea. You pass some gravel factories and the battery lies 1km further on your left hand in the field/gravel.

It is a small, light battery with only Vf. bunkers and two large emplacements. Most of the bunkers can be entered, but they are in a terrible condition. One of the two ammunition bunkers is blown to pieces, but the other one shows us how large the first one was. Note the nice gutter system on the roof of the second ammunition bunker. The complete picture of the battery is nice; it gives an impression of how a lighter battery looks like.

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1x Vf command post.
2x Gun emplacement.
2x Vf ammunition bunker.
4x Vf personnel.
1x Vf storage.