The coast of Vierville in St-Laurent June 6th around noon March 24th 44 the WN71 bunker, above the present party hall Ci — Yves Cordelle Collection, reference 1131.
The coast of Vierville to St-Laurent on 6 June around 12 noon (details)(details) 24 March 44(details) the WN71 bunker, above the current party hall(details) Below is the location of the above casemate(details)(details) A Tobrouck for machine gun
A shelter for Tobrouck
A 50mm mortar position
[ WN meant "Widerstandnester" or "nid of resistance" ]
The WN 71, separated from the WN72 by the anti-tank wall across the road, consisted of two 80mm mortar pits on the cliff, machine gun positions or shooters. Michel Hardelay: "The 716th German Division had had two years to equip its various defence points; each had, in principle, two mortar pits, four machine gun positions, sometimes a machine gun on a warhead turning for aerial fire, a ten-metre underground shelter served by a gallery with two 50-metre remote exits and a cliffside fire control station; all served by a network of trenches and buried telephone links. Most of the works were concrete."
(details) 15 February 44Aerial photo of the Percée on April 27, 1944 (from Englesqueville to Vierville, WN 72 to 74) (details)(details) The WN71 and 72, around 7:30 a.m. on June 6. We see the anti-tank wall and its chicane, the ditch in the road and the 2 bunkers of the WN72(details) WN71 plane plot test, on a cadastral plane background prepared by M. Hardelay(details) The WN71, seen from the gun of 88 WN72(details)
an underground entrance on the plateau (perhaps the one I visited in 1946: a vertical wooden ladder of about ten meters, a horizontal gallery of 15 meters and 2 side rooms to the left)
(details) an underground explored by an unknown BSE (Charlie Kinnaman, of Bloomington, Ind.) of an unknown WN, most of them contained important undergrounds, including WN71.(details) The 2-blank bunker for machine guns, above Vierville's quarry (exploited largely by the Americans in 1944, they thus undressed the bunker that is near the vacuum now. The career is now abandoned and occupied by villas)2-burner bunker for small arms and light weapons
