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Stützpunkt Lgs 90 Wn 94 Heeres-Küsten Batterie

HKB Leucate-Pardigan, consited out of four R669 bunkers, a Vf Leitstand, (2) FA HWB and a
few underground rooms for personnel/provisions/ammunition.
During the withdrawal, an R669 bunker was blown up by the Germans, with the surplus of the ammunition.
The battery had four Russian 12.2cm K390/1 (r) canons and a few 2cm Flak’s.
The 7. / H.K.A.R. 1290 manned this position.
After the war, some bunkers were converted to vacation homes but they, anno 2022, left again.

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Source

  • Text: Patrick van Vaerenbergh
  • Photos: Patrick van Vaerenbergh

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