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just paint! |
On the Todt front of one of the gunbunkers M170, Gi09 Gironde Nod, F |
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combination of
carvings and paint! |
Gunbunker M272, MKB Drammont 5/MAA 627, Wn RAP
29 Alpenveichen near St. Raphael, Südwall, F
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photo's: FX |
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Gunbunker SK MKB Cap Gros et la Mauresque, Wn 039 4/MAA 615, Port
Vendres, Südwall, France,
04-2007 |
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These bunkers were camouflaged extensively, traces of nets,
paint, rocks in the concrete... details of the colours used to the
right |
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notice the thick layer
of cement and paint |
On the
outside of a 105a in Koziol, Poland |
photo's: AvB |
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as natural
colours as possible
resembling the natural surroundings |
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On an observationpost 'R 120 Artillerie-Beobachtungsstand
mit Panzerturm', Hirtshals, DK |
photo: BH |
On a bunker somewhere in Norway |
photo: ER |
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well preserved! |
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... and again! |
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Ringstand for a 3.7 cm KwK under a copula, Festung IJmuiden, NL,
04-2005 |
photo: RB |
On a tobruk, Blåvand,
DK, 08-2003 |
photo: AvB |
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yellow patches |
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red and yellow in an area surrounded by dunes |
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Machinegunbunker
'R 58 c 80 cm.
Büffelstellung, Blåvand, DK |
photo: MS |
Ammunitionbunker 'Batterie Straßbourg', Jarbourg, Guernsey,
C.I., GB |
photo: AvB |
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again yellow and red |
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what intense and well-preserved colours! |
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Entrance to a 'R 676
Kleinschartenstand
für 4.7 cm. Festungspak (t)' |
Entrance to a PAK-garage |
Tjelta, N |
photo's: EE
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plaster and very well kept
painted camouflage! |
On a bunker
R10I, Bietscheid (Westwall), D |
photo's: ER |
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front-left: red and yellow on the outer walls, right: yellow/black
stone pattern on the back-side |
Gunbunkers 'R 650 Schartenstand für Geschütze auf Mittlere
Sockellafette (120º)', 'Heeresküstenbatterie Azeville'
4*10,5 cm, Carentan, Normandy, F |
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yellow / red |
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AA bunker L 409 a, Büffelstellung, St.Pt.Gr. Blåvand near
Esbjerg, DK, 08-2003 |
photo: AvB |
Backside of the command-bunker 'Batterie Behncke, 4*17 cm,
Fort de l'Eve near St. Nazaire, F, 08-2001 |
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red/green/yellow |
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this is the
only bunker in the region with well-preserved remnants of camo-paint,
this is the entrance |
Gunbunker
'R 642 Schartenstand für 4.7 cm Festungspak (t) und MG',
Pleurtuit near St. Malo, Brittany, F, 05-2001 |
photo's: PLL |
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left: the MG side, right: the PAK side
A rare bunker, only 5
build on the entire A.W. |
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the paintjob was very well done: camouflage/numbering and St-signs
all well preserved on these bunkers. |
On the entrance to an ammunition bunker 'R 134
Munitionsunterstand I' in the 'Bataillonsgefechtsstand
(H.Q.) of the Stp.Gr., 'Stp.Gr. Schouwen', Slotbos,
Haamstede, NL, 01-2001 |
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yellow/white/black |
On the outside of the U-boat bunker La Rochelle, F,
08-2001 |
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red/yellow |
Entrance to a power
station belonging to 'Knickebein-Stellung K11', ones
equipped with a 40 m. antenna, Lanmeur, Brittany, 10-2001 |
photo's: PLL |
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some brown/yellow left... |
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On a
'R 112 Stand mit 6-Schartentkuppel', Stp. Gr. Breskens, NL
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photo: AvB |
In
the corridor of a 'Vf 2A' bunker, Guisseny, Brittany, F
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photo: DP |
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grey/green in the corridor |
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grey
in the entrance |
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Entrance to a 'R 502 Doppelgruppenunterstand', Goeree, NL,
03-2002
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photo: AvB
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Entrance to a 'R 668 Kleinstunterstand fűr 6 Mann, Landfront Le Havre near
Fontaine-la-Mallet, F, 04-2002
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photo: AvB
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yellow
in the entrance |
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red and green in a forest |
On the outside of a command bunker somewhere on the AW in
the Netherlands, 03-2002 |
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red and white, the last pieces are falling off... |
the bunker was ones completely
covered with plaster which was painted brick-red. Even fake white
window-frames were painted! |
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red and green
in a forest |
H.Q. bunker 'R 608 Batl.-, Abt.-, oder Reg.- Gefechtsstand',
'Festung Hoek van Holland', Staelduinsebos, NL, 01-2001 |
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a side-step: some
remnants of camouflage, a number (2) and the divisional sign of the
12 th Pz.Div. on a well-preserved tank turret coming from a
Pz.Kfw.38 (t). Placed on a tobruk Rs 241 |
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Landfront Stavanger, Forus, N
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photo: EE
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the same turret and Tobruk, the number (514) and national symbol
(The 'Balkenkreuz') are still visible. See all pictures on
'panzerturrets in
Norway'. |
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Landfront Stavanger, Malmheim, N
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photo: EE
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Painted facades of houses: |
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camouflage could not only be
done by patches of paint but also by painting things like windows
or bricks on the outer walls. Even the curtains were carefully
painted! During the war the bunker had a sloped wooden roof... |
On a telephone bunker, 'W.N. Carmen', 'Landfront V.B.
Vlissingen', NL, 05-2001 |
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an example of painted on bricks and a small window |
On
a groupbunker 'R 621 Gruppenunterstand', 'Landfront V.B.
Vlissingen', NL, 05-2001 |
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again the brick, during the war the outside of the whole bunker was
painted this way! |
On command-post 'Esther' H.Q. Grenadier Regiment 732,
defender of the sector K.V.A. A2, a 'R 177a Bataillons- der
Regiments Gefechtsstand', Stp.Landhaus Westkapelle, B,
06-2001 |
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detail: the bunker was excavated in 1997, that is the reason the
paint-job from the first floor down is well preserved. The paint-job
was done by a Dutch painted, he painted the text in a Dutch/German
mixture. |
'Stp. Groede' near Breskens, NL,
06-2001 |
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R 134S hospitalbunker:
the bunkers on this complex were all camouflaged with painted on
bricks, windows, windowsills. Note the bunkername 'Moselland' with
grapes and the sign 'St' |
WIJNEN und
SNAPS in stead of WEINEN und SCHNAPS (wines and liquer) |
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some more examples
on a R 501 and a R 134 photo's: HBP and
HA |
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update 11-2011 |
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entrance to the left, detail of the masonry. One's the complete
bunker was camouflaged with masonry and fake windows .. |
ammobunker
Fl 246, Verteidigungs- stab, Stp.Gr. Scheveningen, Den Haag, NL,
11-2003
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an opened door ... still
opened after some 60 years and very well kept! |
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On a bunker
somewhere on the AW in Belgium, 08-2003 |
photo: BK |
On a SK
communicationsbunker, De Panne, B. |
photo: BK |
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remains
of a painted window ... |
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traces of windows... |
On a gunbunker 'R 611 Geschűtzschartenstand fűr
Felldgeschűtze', St. Pt. Hötzendorf, Westkapelle, NL, 04-2002
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photo: LvdW |
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