Westwall Regelbau B1-5

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Re: Westwall Regelbau B1-5

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Post by Projekt-Westwall » 06 Feb 2011, 02:43

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Re: Westwall Regelbau B1-5

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Post by jopaerya » 06 Feb 2011, 11:01

Hello Markus

Again great work , also very nice to see the combination of the early Westwall bunker and the late-war Kochbunker .

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Re: Westwall Regelbau B1-5

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Post by Paul Lakowski » 07 Feb 2011, 07:40

This is great work, you people are luck to have the time to do this ! :-)

Any idea what such a bunker would feature in terms of armaments? how many machine guns mortars etc.?

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Re: Westwall Regelbau B1-5

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Post by Projekt-Westwall » 07 Feb 2011, 18:46

Hi Paul,
this Bunker had two maschine guns like the MG 08 or MG 34- it was manned with 12 men.
There was no mortar or other heavy weapons in.

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Re: Westwall Regelbau B1-5

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Post by Paul Lakowski » 07 Feb 2011, 22:09

Thanks Markus!

I have a book on the Atlantic Wall called "Atlantic Vall" in Polish i think. It has a really detailed list of every single gun emplacment with gun type details , while some other detail is included. Looking at Bunkersite.com I now realise some of these are the bunker types.


Does any one know if there has been a similar type work on the Westwall indicating and detailing each and every site?

On a side note we have had an on going debate over mateirals invested in these fortifications. Does any one have such details concerning armored steel allocated to the "Westwall" and or the "Atlantic Wall"?

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Re: Westwall Regelbau B1-5

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Post by patrick fleuridas » 01 Jun 2014, 19:06

Hi,

My drawing for B1-5. In your original bunker, where is stove emplacement?
210 cm inside for all room ? or 190 cm in kampf raum ? I can modified my drawing.
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Re: Westwall Regelbau B1-5

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Post by Paul Lakowski » 15 Jun 2014, 20:46

Seems like the outer plates in A/B & G/H are not concrete walls embrasures, instead they look like Armored steel plates several meters on a side. That seems like quite a bit of armor to waste on a machine gun position?

I wonder how many such positions where built for the West Wall? It must have been thousands.

If each plate is 10cm x 2m x 3m that's about 9.4 tons of armored steel. Then their is similar armored steel on the outer doors. All in All, that's about 10 tons armored steel.

So every machine gun bunkers used as much armored steel as a Panzer IV g/h ?

What a waste of resources!

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