Wiederstandsnest W5, Utah Beach

Wiederstandsnest W5 - Map Directory

This was Wiederstandsnest W5: 400 m wide and 300 m deep. At low tide the foreshore could be as wide as 800 m. and at high tide, the water could reach the barbed-wire entanglement. The obstackles on the foreshore, submerged by high tide: 'Czec porcupines' and artificial skerries.

A) Defence line towards the ocean. B) Defence line towards land.

1.

Captured machinegun in armoured cupola.

2.

Command post with range finder.

3.

Camouflaged stone bunker, cont. officers cabin, telephone exchange, messroom
and shower.

4.

Road block, consisting of concrete blocks.

5.

80 mm Mortar in concrete fortified position.

6.

Bunker, field infirmery.

7.

Heavy machinegun.

8.

Fortified flame-throwers.

9.

Firing control center, flame-throwers.

10.

50 mm tank gun.

11.

75 mm FK-16.

12.

75 mm PAK (anti tank gun).

13.

88 mm AL gun (anti aircraft gun).

14.

50 mm tank gun.

15.

Kitchen.

16.

Air-raid shelter.

17.

The 'Goliath's'.

18.

Anti-tank wall.

19.

Armoured bunkers. Mine fields and barbed-wire entanglements on the flanks
and direction towards land.

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(Wiederstandsnest: Strongpoint)**