Need help with ID

[Kingfish]

According to Normandy battlefield tours there is an 88mm casemate located mid-photo.

Is it the large structure shown right of center about midway down from the top of the photo, with its side walls set at a 45 degree angle?

If not, where is the casemate?

[ June 22, 2008, 09:02 AM: Message edited by: Kingfish ]

[Steve McClaire]

A bit slow and hard to navigate, but tons of info on the German defenses in the area you're interested in. It even has the same photo with bunkers circled

http://www.atlantikwall.co.uk/atlantikwall/atlantikwall_html/mont_coq_html/mont_coqu_plan.htm

[dieseltaylor]

Before this plan was put into effect, however, the 39th Infantry received permission from Division to send its 3d Battalion independently against Quineville without the assistance of the 22d Infantry. At 1400 thirty-six A-2 0 's carried out a bombardment of enemy positions at Quineville and it was desirable that this bombardment be followed as soon as possible by an infantry attack. At 1600 the 3d Battalion, 39th Infantry, moved out with Company K in the lead. Initially the company encountered little opposition and took sixty-eight prisoners. On the slopes just southwest of Quineville leading elements of the company successfully attacked a casemated 88-mm. gun and took the crew prisoner. At this time tanks of the 70th Tank Battalion, operating with the 39th Infantry, opened fire at long range on what appeared to be enemy vehicles on the right flank, and drew antitank fire. This movement on the right proved to be that of tank destroyers attached to the regiment's 1st Battalion, which was fighting its way up the beach in the vicinity of St. Marcouf. The firing ceased after identification was established by flare and radio.

I have taken too long : (. My ID was for the one on the hedge along the Rue d'Eglise as it ties in with the narrative and is a place I would put it

to cover the coast.

The other building way too large I would think for a single 88mm and is lower and would not fit the narrative.

[ June 22, 2008, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: dieseltaylor ]