Plan of a bunker of the Battery Todt


 

 

(to be come the diagram from the basement)

 

In 1: the housing of the personnel.

In Room 2 and Room 3: the poudrière who could contain 10 tons of powder where were stored the cartridges (Room 3), and the arsenal where the shells (Room 2) were stored. Some good caricatures of Winston Churchill, drawn by an artist of the German army, are still visible there. One saw, in 1945, a table of shooting traced on the wall which gave, by a succession of features, the number of drawn blows. All is erased, except a swastika held in the greenhouses of the Hitlérien eagle, with the German inscription: "each one will break, Germany will remain".

In Room 4: site of the power generating unit ensuring lighting and the driving force necessary to the displacement of the mounting and from where the ammunition were conveyed.The painter created a flag of horn-the eye.

In 5: a steel cupola, 10 cm thickness made it possible to supervise the surroundings.

In Room 6: a hall leads on the one hand, by a staircase now blocked, with the basement; in addition with the large circular shelter which sheltered the gun. The large concrete cone on which the pivot retaining was sealed the mounting, is still in perfect state.

In Room 7: swivelling on rails, the gun could move of 52 height and of more than 90 in width.

 

 

 
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