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Bunkers in YUGOSLAVIA

Postby Micowiny on 13 Jun 2012 09:16

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).

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

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

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Same bunker - downstream view

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MG-12

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MG-12
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Re: Bunkers in YUGOSLAVIA

Postby Sid Guttridge on 13 Jun 2012 12:24

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?

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Re: Bunkers in YUGOSLAVIA

Postby Micowiny on 13 Jun 2012 12:45

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

Postby jopaerya on 13 Jun 2012 14:24

Hello Micowiny :welcome:

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

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Re: Bunkers in YUGOSLAVIA

Postby Micowiny on 14 Jun 2012 10:16

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...

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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...)

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Defense lines in Northern sector

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

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Re: Bunkers in YUGOSLAVIA

Postby jopaerya on 14 Jun 2012 10:31

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

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Re: Bunkers in YUGOSLAVIA

Postby Micowiny on 14 Jun 2012 11:22

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

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

second drawing is unknown for me...
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Re: Bunkers in YUGOSLAVIA

Postby jopaerya on 14 Jun 2012 11:27

Hi Micowiny

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

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Re: Bunkers in YUGOSLAVIA

Postby Micowiny on 14 Jun 2012 11:51

jopaerya wrote: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.

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Blockhouse (Sremska Kamenica)

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

Postby Micowiny on 14 Jun 2012 12:12

Along the Danube river I find just next few models

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

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

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

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

here they...
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Re: Bunkers in YUGOSLAVIA

Postby andreas.s on 14 Jun 2012 20:10

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting.

Regards Andreas

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Re: Bunkers in YUGOSLAVIA

Postby zmija on 15 Jun 2012 11:22

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

MG-12 in Rogoza.
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Re: Bunkers in YUGOSLAVIA

Postby zmija on 15 Jun 2012 11:36

An AT bunker near Pesnica.
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Postby zmija on 15 Jun 2012 11:37

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Postby zmija on 15 Jun 2012 11:39

MT bunker near Limbuš.
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