Goliath Garage on AW?

[searay]

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.

[jopaerya]

Please look here http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... it=goliath

[searay]

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.

[kstdk]

Hello

These photos is from a US report from 1944 about fortifications / camouflage on the Mediteranean coast of France.

Source: NARA

Regards
Kurt
kstdk

[der bunkermann]

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

[der bunkermann]

Found it but cant place it.. to large, and can't crop on mobile phone :roll:

[JKernwerk]

Tim, could this be a Goliath at Scheveningen?
It comes from a newspaper "De Dortenaar".

[jazote]

Cap Fréhel:

[der bunkermann]

Tim, could this be a Goliath at Scheveningen?
It comes from a newspaper "De Dortenaar".
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Hi Jack,
Difficult to see.. i can 't recognize anything:-)

Gr Tim

[schwarzermai]

Hello - any idea which unit used the Goliath in this area?
Uwe

[JKernwerk]

I think the Festung Stamm Truppen.
But this is just a wild guess.
JK

[schwarzermai]

I think the Festung Stamm Truppen.
But this is just a wild guess.
JK

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.
Uwe

[der bunkermann]

Tim, could this be a Goliath at Scheveningen?
It comes from a newspaper "De Dortenaar".
scan2768-002.jpg

Hi Jack,
Little late but this article was placed also at 07-09-1944
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??

[von thoma]

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.

Goliath's Operators were engineers or artillery personnel ?
Thanks

[jopaerya]

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