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The bunker of Werner Pluskat

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Post by kstdk » 17 Aug 2009, 20:38

Hello all

According to this article, the bunker from where Werner Pluskat observed the allied landing - is found:

http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail. ... rd=pluskat

Anyone for a translation of the article??

The bunker shown in the movie "The longest day" was not the right one, as they were not able to find the right spot at the time, obviously - according to the article.

Any one knows this bunker?

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Post by jopaerya » 17 Aug 2009, 20:45

Six Geronimo-leden are of a forwarding in Normandië. There them to own say in the dune area of Omaha Beach localised the remainders of the real bunker of from which major Werner Pluskat on saw the 6j.ni 1944, fleets allied as first coin serum emerging. To be oversten to the tel. believed him just then its bunker already under fire lay of the fleet. Pluskats tale became world-famous by means of the film The Longest Day (1962). The bunker from the film lures annually thousands of tourists. But what knows weinigen, is that is not at all the real bunker of from which Pluskat are perceptions did. ' Of the real bunker it has been confessed that those became stukgeschoten' , says time t' Kint, President of Geronimo and of the participants to forwarding. ' The real bunker is himself more country-inward, high above Omaha Beach. The bunker from the film lies almost on the range. It was none secret that it did not concern in the film the real bunker. For this reason that copy from the film was rather rapidly taken by surprise at real landing and has been never bombed flat. That he remained well kept, made that bunker allicht also cinematographic more interesting. Pluskat consultant in the film, but apparently did he was not already too difficult concerning exact locatie.' Geronimo zocht already two years to the real location. A first forwarding previous year produced nothing. ' Old military foto' s, taken for the landing and to find exactly on the Internet, all kinds of signs mention of which at thought that there possibly capacitance nests and observation bunkers would be possible themselves bevinden' , says t' Kint. ' As from there, and with the aid of Google Earth, we worked by means of elimination. An occasional meeting with an American who the director proved be of the military church court of Colleville, put us on what eventually the good track proved to be at zijn.' The spot of the real bunker lies outlying. There absolutely no naartoe walk away. ' It was litteral rondkruipen, whereas we retrieved under and above the bunch ground all kinds of betonnen pieces. This way at we in the long grass on the vestiges of what supposedly a course earl was. By following that, we found the real observation bunker. He stands by means of course sepulchres in connection with arms cupolas, of which we retrieved two states still reasonable and from where the Americans under fire were genomen.' For security reasons, possibly exploded ammunition or all kinds of vermin, did not descend nobody in the bunker. ' But what concerns us, there is no more doubt mogelijk' , puts t' Kint. ' The position is ideal. Pluskat had of from that indeed a spectacular visibility on Omaha Beach. Also the description of the destruction is correct. The roof of the bunker has been fired. He lies bunkers with fire mouths, overgrown in the middle of a range. The bunker had himself no geschutspoort and you see still the rusted lower part of what once the look breach was. In the buurt there absolutely no other bunker of that type is and with all that eigenschappen


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Post by jopaerya » 06 Sep 2012, 13:18

Hello

Is this the same Werner Pluskat ( Longest Day ) as we know from Normandie commander of the I./352 ??

Photo = Ebay

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Post by CNOCK » 06 Sep 2012, 20:18

Hallo,

It seems now that the film 'The longest day' was not correct posting Pluskat in his bunker watching the invasion, in fact he was with his french girlfriend behind the lines...


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Post by Manuferey » 07 Sep 2012, 03:32

jopaerya wrote:Hello

Is this the same Werner Pluskat ( Longest Day ) as we know from Normandie commander of the I./352 ??

Photo = Ebay

Regards Jos
It looks like it. Here is another known picture of Werner Pluskat. There is a very strong resemblance with Jos' picture.

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http://www.strijdbewijs.nl/omaha/pluskat.jpg

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Re: The bunker of Werner Pluskat

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Post by Atrevida » 07 Sep 2012, 16:29

Major Werner Pluskat was the commander of 1.Abt. Art.Regt 352.

His command position was in the observation bunker at Widerstandsnest 59 a few hundred metres from the beach in the bay below Ste Honorine-des-Pertes. WN 59 was located three kilometres east of the central defensive strongpoint Widerstandsnest 62. Pluskat was lodged in the mansion at Etréham 3.2 kilometres inland.

"At 0300 on 6 June 1944 a blacked-out armada was seen on the horizon from WN 62 and three white and three red flares were fired off inviting the recognition signal of the day. WN 60 also fired off its recognition flares. The armada did not reply...Machine-gunner Gefreiter Hein Severloh ("The Beast of Omaha Beach") suggested to his artillery officer, Oberleutnant Frerking at WN 62, that Major Pluskat should be informed. A short while later Frerking emerged from his bunker and told Severloh that Pluskat could not be found at Abt.Staff, nor at his foward command post, nor at his quarters. It was common knowledge that Pluskat had spent a lot of time in the company of four ladies of the Front Theatre in recent days, and he knew that the invasion was imminent. Pluskat and his Staff had absented theselves without leave and would have to answer for it..."

SOURCE: Helmut Freiherr von Keusgen: Stützpunkt WN 62, HEK Verlag, Garbsen, 2004 at page 52.

Below a group photo including Pluskat, Severloh wrote in his own memoir:

"In a long speech on 2 June 1944 Pluskat let us know in a veiled way that we should disengage as quickly as possible once the attack began: " (...dass wir uns bei dem zu erwartenden Angriff möglichst schnell absetzen sollten. Aber warum...?"
On the day of the invasion Pluskat was never with his unit. During 6 June Oberleutnant Frerking made numerous attempts to contact him by telephone, but our Abt. commander was not to be found anywhere..."

SOURCE: Hein Severloh: WN 62 - Erinnerungen an Omaha Beach, Normandie, 6 Juni 1944, HEK Verlag, Garbsen, 2000, p.48.

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Re: The bunker of Werner Pluskat

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Post by Carl Schwamberger » 28 Nov 2013, 03:18

Atrevida wrote:...
"At 0300 on 6 June 1944 a blacked-out armada was seen on the horizon from WN 62 and three white and three red flares were fired off inviting the recognition signal of the day. ...
What was the difference between the German & British clocks 6th June?

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Post by jopaerya » 28 Nov 2013, 12:48

Maybe this is the reason , source Wikipedia

Periods of deviation[edit]

In 1940, during the Second World War, the clocks in Britain were not put back by an hour at the end of Summer Time. In subsequent years, clocks continued to be advanced by one hour each spring and put back by an hour each autumn until July 1945. During these summers, therefore, Britain was two hours ahead of GMT and operating on British Double Summer Time (BDST). The clocks were brought back in line with GMT at the end of summer in 1945. In 1947, due to severe fuel shortages, clocks were advanced by one hour on two occasions during the spring, and put back by one hour on two occasions during the autumn, meaning that Britain was back on BDST during that summer

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