"Schartenplatte" MG bunker ?

[jopaerya]

Could this be a from inside exploded M.G. bunker ?? Photo is U.S. Signal Corps

Regards Jos

[jbb20p7]

Hello Jos

Thanks for this interresting picture

I think is was an 7P7, or 10p7 schartenplatte, and you can see on "1", the big screw fixing the scharte, and in "2", a part of the for sliding for weapon.



Bye
JB

[AvB]

Yes it looks like a 10cm 7P7. What's the source Jos? Westwall or Atlantikwall?

[jopaerya]

Photo is from the U.S. Signal Corps with out any text or date

[RuPo]

Right of the red postion one, a I profil to fix the plate. Complete bend by the explosion. Picture is from Autumn 1944.
I have the picture from internet in a bit higer resolution, let me know if this helps.
g,Ruud

[JKernwerk]

Must be Westwall, Most of the AW bunkers had an 78P9 or the combination of plates.
JK

[jbb20p7]

Hello

another picture from exploded bunker on the Westwall, with 7p7 schartenplatte.



Photo US Army / Pierrot

Bye
Jb

[jopaerya]

Thanks JB , I think both photo's are from the Westwall

[v60pih]

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-german ... 29262.html

"An American soldier uses a captured German pillbox for a telephone booth as he communicates with a unit behind the front in France (Autumn 1944)"


http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/new ... d152243951

"september 01, 1944"

[forttravel]

Soviets did similar tests. Caption of these pictures says: Bunker destroyed by SU 152 (or/& artillery) fire. Fortifield area of Mława. It seems it is bunker with casamate 5P7, but location is wrong. Mława is a Polish pre war fortification on north Masovia, so it should be East Prussia area.

[AvB]

Very nice photos! Thanks!