Bunkers in YUGOSLAVIA

[Micowiny]

These are just a few bunkers around my town (Novi Sad) on the Danube (Republic of Serbia), incorporated in the fortification of the 18th century (Petrovaradin fortress). Built by the army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia before World War II (1938-1941).


Red star: known locations of bunkers; Green star: unknown lokation of bunker (present military base)


Type of bunker MG-12 (machine-gun nest/митраљеско гнездо) - upstream view


Same bunker - downstream view


MG-12


MG-12

[Sid Guttridge]

Hi Micoviny,

Are these in any way related to the fortifications of the Czechoslovakia and Romania, which were also part of the Little Entente?

Both followed the French Maginot exampole by building fortified lines on their borders in the Sudetenland, southern Slovakia and Transilvania during the late 1930s.

Perhaps Yugoslavia followed the same course as its allies?

Cheers,

Sid.

[Micowiny]

Sid,
Somehow... I found information that the engineers of the Yugoslav army, together with the Romanian and Czechoslovak went to France for training.

[jopaerya]

Hello Micowiny

Here a plan of the bunker from the book "Denkschrift über die jugoslawische Landesbefestigung"

Regards Jos

[Micowiny]

thanks jopaerya,

i have some plans but in low resolutio... i would appreciate if you have some more german documentation plans (other MG-1, MG-2 etc of photos from "Hungarian plain", or book in PDF or something like that...

I will share what i find until now on web...


Same MG-1 but curved roof (Sremski Karlovci)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw6HgZ3IMhQ&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Hungarian WWII propaganda movie (bunkers, anti-tank obstacle, etc...)


Defense lines in Northern sector

http://www.gradsubotica.co.rs/subotica- ... -26-slika/
More photos from border with Hungaria.

Also, please look my other photos on Panoramio...
http://www.panoramio.com/user/1252715

[jopaerya]

Here some other models and we allways thought that the Italains invented the "tobruk" ( same source )

Regards Jos

[Micowiny]

yes... first drawing is common bunker type for our region of Vojvodina (North part of Serbia)


Petrovaradin - Modification of MG-1 (1to3 loop-hole)

second drawing is unknown for me...

[jopaerya]

Hi Micowiny

This bunker was only build at the Italian/Yugoslavian border according to the book .

Regards Jos

[Micowiny]

Hi Micowiny
This bunker was only build at the Italian/Yugoslavian border according to the book .
Regards Jos

You talk about second drawing?! Yes... According documents from Military archive in Belgrade, completion of all works was scheduled for year 1946. So, we don't have them.

But, the Germans were kind enough to leave their own examples of military architecture.



Blockhouse (Sremska Kamenica)

btw... I will upload soon some drawings from Yugoslav military engineers and compare whit those on field.

[Micowiny]

Along the Danube river I find just next few models


MG-1 with 1 loophole... up in hills (Sremska Kamenica 5km upstream)


MG-1 with 3 loophole... up in hills (Petrovaradin 2km south from Petrovardin fortress)


This looks like MG-9 (Rakovac 11km upstream)


and MG-12 ... up in hills (Bukovac 8km south from Petrovardin fortress)

here they...

[andreas.s]

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting.

Regards Andreas

[zmija]

Greetings from north-eastern part of Slovenia. Me and a friend went on a ''bunker hunt'' in 2008.

MG-12 in Rogoza.

[zmija]

An AT bunker near Pesnica.

[zmija]

...more

[zmija]

MT bunker near Limbuš.