Goliath Garage on AW?
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Goliath Garage on AW?
Is anyone aware of any German architectural plans for deploying the Goliath remote control demolition vehicles in the Atlantikwall/Sudwall? The photos I have seen of their use in coastal defenses suggest that improvised "garages" were used. Here's an interesting example on the Sudwall on one of the St. Raphael invasion beaches.
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Re: Goliath Garage on AW?
Thanks Jos, most useful.
I suspect they may have issued the corrugated metal roof plate along with the Goliaths. There are some shots of non-standard garages on the Dragoon beaches that have the corrugated roof, even if the construction did not follow the standard plan.
I suspect they may have issued the corrugated metal roof plate along with the Goliaths. There are some shots of non-standard garages on the Dragoon beaches that have the corrugated roof, even if the construction did not follow the standard plan.
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Re: Goliath Garage on AW?
Hello
These photos is from a US report from 1944 about fortifications / camouflage on the Mediteranean coast of France.
Source: NARA
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Kurt
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These photos is from a US report from 1944 about fortifications / camouflage on the Mediteranean coast of France.
Source: NARA
Regards
Kurt
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Re: Goliath Garage on AW?
In Scheveningen there were also goliathgarage's near an entrance to the stutzpunktgruppe (boschlaan).
I shall search for the (resistance) drawing of these shelters. On post war picture's of waepon dumps in area there are goliath's visible.
Gr, Tim
I shall search for the (resistance) drawing of these shelters. On post war picture's of waepon dumps in area there are goliath's visible.
Gr, Tim
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Found it but cant place it.. to large, and can't crop on mobile phone 

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Tim, could this be a Goliath at Scheveningen?
It comes from a newspaper "De Dortenaar".
It comes from a newspaper "De Dortenaar".
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Goliath Garage on La 318
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Re: Goliath Garage on AW?
Hello - any idea which unit used the Goliath in this area?
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I think the Festung Stamm Truppen.
But this is just a wild guess.
JK
But this is just a wild guess.
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Re: Goliath Garage on AW?
Hello JK, thanks for your help.
oh - i didnt think so, the Goliath were special units only and the personal was especially trained ...
but i have no idea which units were it.
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Re: Goliath Garage on AW?
Hi Jack,
Little late

in the newspaper: Het volk : dagblad voor de arbeiderspartij.
That would fit with my my thoughts that it could be somewhere in Normandy or another liberated part of north France.. ? Could be wishful thinking but
It looks like a covered emplacement for 5cm KwK in the back??
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Goliath's Operators were engineers or artillery personnel ?oh - i didnt think so, the Goliath were special units only and the personal was especially trained ...
but i have no idea which units were it.
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Re: Goliath Garage on AW?
Hello von Thoma
From what I see in the Atlantikwall the infantry troops of the WN and Stp. were
responsible for the Goliath, don't know if that is the same on other fronts .
Regards Jos
From what I see in the Atlantikwall the infantry troops of the WN and Stp. were
responsible for the Goliath, don't know if that is the same on other fronts .
Regards Jos