What is this bunker?

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Re: What is this bunker?

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Post by jopaerya » 22 Sep 2013, 15:10

Thanks Ondrej 8O 8O

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Re: What is this bunker?

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Post by Jose85 » 12 Oct 2013, 14:28

Hello,
German? The title says Atlantikwall, but it seems more like a Westwall design to me.Thanks. Photo from EBay.de

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Re: What is this bunker?

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Post by Ondrej Filip » 14 Oct 2013, 13:39

Jose85 wrote:Hello,
German? The title says Atlantikwall, but it seems more like a Westwall design to me.Thanks. Photo from EBay.de

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According to the construction details (embrassure without steps, rounded roof, rivetted shutters) I guess it could be any bunker, built during the WWI. In that case it is hard to say more, because it is a field fortification.

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Re: What is this bunker?

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Post by Jose85 » 15 Oct 2013, 14:50

Hello,
thanks! For me it looked too sophisticated for WW1 field fortification/bunker. But i have very little knowledge for the WW1 era.

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Re: What is this bunker?

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Post by AvB » 17 Nov 2013, 01:26

It looks like a German bunker, but I've never saw this kind of camouflage pattern in the Westwall.
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Re: What is this bunker?

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Post by Jose85 » 17 Nov 2013, 01:47

Wasn't this camo used on some parts of Ostwall?

these look different, but maybe there were other types?
http://rygielpisz.eu/sercemazur/viewtopic.php?p=15573

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Post by AvB » 17 Nov 2013, 01:55

No this is different.

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Re: What is this bunker?

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Post by Projekt-Westwall » 17 Nov 2013, 12:55

Hi guys,

this is a nice picture of a very rare camoflage, used at the westwall.
Here in the saarland we have some different camos on the bunkers. This picture looks like
one, i saw at a Regelbau C1 in Merzig.
The shown bunker looks like a Regelbau B1-xx, it has 80cm Roof and Walls

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Post by AvB » 17 Nov 2013, 13:22

Thanks Markus, didn't know they used this method with cement bags already in the Westwall!

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Re: What is this bunker?

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Post by Jose85 » 29 Nov 2013, 19:18

Hello,
anyone knows this concrete?? thing? :? Thanks! Photo from eBay.de
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Post by Ondrej Filip » 01 Dec 2013, 01:27

Jose85 wrote:Hello,
anyone knows this concrete?? thing? :? Thanks!
If it is not any WWI "reinforced" field position, I thought it could be the Metaxas line. The Greeks were using embrasures without steps, rounded shapes of roofs and shutters inside the embrasures. But it is only a suggestion.

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Post by Jose85 » 02 Dec 2013, 17:01

Hello,
thanks for your suggestions.

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Re: What is this bunker?

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Post by Jose85 » 16 Dec 2013, 05:14

Another pics from eBay.de
this could be mirrored? ((or right? :) there was mirror version on eBay too) Some of the Maginot Line Avant Postes and other "petit beton" have pretty wild shapes, maybe?? The square dark places look like typical FM embrasures? But what's that cupola? on the top?
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another German training bunker?
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Re: What is this bunker?

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Post by MLW » 16 Dec 2013, 13:28

The cupola on the top photo is not a Maginot Line design. So, I guess it is not French.

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Re: What is this bunker?

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Post by Jose85 » 16 Dec 2013, 17:56

Yes it doesn't look like any Maginot design, but there was many weird stuff on the "petit beton":WW1 "guerites",WW1 ex-German armoured observation posts... :?

Edit:other idea -Yugoslavia?? Yugoslavian bunkers have some weird concrete cupolas with armour plates.

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