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Brancourt-Stellung (AOK 7)


Tom Oliviers

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hello, 

Yesterday we went to the Siegfried-stellung near brancourt in the AOK 7 area, we found a lot of nice bunkers but one bunker had twoo such cariages poured in the concrete, i dont find any matching weapon for those? i looked for MG, revolverkanone, and the 5cm kanone, but none of those seems to fit? there are also two large ammunition rooms next to each scharte.

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2D Sketch of this bunker

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Firing direction of this bunker, it flanked from the hill the entire Siegfried-Stellung to the South

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more info and pictures can been found on my blog page about this bunker. Still looking for the lafette, i guess a schartenlafette for an MG 08? but i'm not shure if thisone existed allready in ww1?

https://frontratten.blogspot.com/2022/11/mg-stand-doppel.html

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  • Tom Oliviers changed the title to Brancourt-Stellung: Zwischenraumstreiche (AOK 7)

Ok, we went back to this bunker last sunday for measurments (two weeks in a row, driving first day 2x 270km and a week later again 2x 270km to measure this bunker exactly)

Fun to see the difference between the first sketch (on sight, not measured at all) and the second plan which was measured. From now on i gonna measure everything instead of sketching.

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The first sketch. without measurements

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The measured bunker. notice the front wall with a thickness of 110cm!

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  • Tom Oliviers changed the title to Brancourt-Stellung (AOK 7)

Another structure we found in the Brancourt-Stellung. Its a troop-bunker type Wellblech with an tunnel dug in the rocks integrated in the structure. The entrance was a very tight fit after more than 100 years.

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We also measured the structure, the stollen-eingang is collapsed after some meters, we did not measure that part because it was very instable.

 

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the measurements taken inside:

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