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Construction Types
Construction Types
Feldmassige Ausbau (Field Order)
Feldmassige Ausbau (Field Order)
These were typically trenches and foxholes, using light materials with a maximum of 40-60cm concrete for roofs. They often used brickwork and were usually excavated by the garrison troops themselves, rather than forced labour. Because of how lightly they are built, few survive. Good examples still exist though, and include the trench systems and emplacements (not the bunkers) at HKB Scharnhorst, and an observation post at Wn. Konigsmuehlen.
Verstärkt Feldmassig (Reinforced Field Order)
Verstärkt Feldmassig (Reinforced Field Order)
These were a lot stronger than Field Order, designated Verstark Feldmassig (Vf) by the Germans. They featured roof and walls of up to 1.2m thick of reinforced concrete. These are the most numerous on the Channel Islands, with some Resistance Nests being entirely Vf . Most Vf structures have type numbers, designated by a Vf prefix in most cases. The most common defenses built to Vf are items such as Tobruk MG pits, observation posts, personnel shelters and open-gun emplacements at batteries. The construction was designed to be bombproof from a 50kg bomb but not gasproof.
Ständig (Fortress Standard)
Ständig (Fortress Standard)
This was one of the strongest types of bunker, Ständig. It has walls of up to 2m thick of reinforced concrete. This type of bunker had a naming scheme typically, being assigned numbers. Typically, bunkers numbered 500-600 were designated for the Heer (army, they are sometimes incorrectly given an 'R' or 'H' prefix), but can also be found at some Navy and Luftwaffe sites. Bunkers with higher 600 numbers were smaller simplified versions of bunkers that began being used in 1943 to increase rate of construction. Bunkers with an L as a prefix were specialized for Luftwaffe use, usually numbered between 400-500. Navy (Kriegsmarine) bunkers used the prefix M or S, for either a medium of heavy Naval Battery. The prefix Fl was used for Naval Flak Installations. The Fl installations fall into 200-300 series, M into 100-200 and S into 400-500. Only one known ‘V’ bunker was built on Guernsey, this being the HQ bunker at St Jacques, although the generator bunker at Marine Stp. Grosshugel may be a contender. Fortress bunkers had standardized equipment. Heavy metal doors, either a stable design or gas door, and ceilings made from steal H beams with either metal plates, barbed wire post bases (or more rarely in the Channel Islands) wood between them. The most defining feature of a Fortress standard construction is most often its gasproof nature. Big HES pumps could draw fresh air in and filter it, keeping the bunker at over-pressure. Seals were present around all doors marked with a red ring, signalling that they should be shut. Note that some casemate types with open fronts, while being Fortress standard, are not gasproof. And some bunkers are gasproof in parts, for example the Jaegerstand does not have a gasproof gunroom, but the crew room is.
Sonderkonstrukton (Special Construction)
Sonderkonstrukton (Special Construction)
Sk designates a type of bunker built for a special construction. These are uncommon on the Channel Islands, and when they are found they are still usually built to the Fortress Standard specifications, but the layout does not match a standard type, and is typically replicated nowhere else. One of the few 'true' SK bunkers in the Channel Islands exists at Stp Josephsburg, Alderney.
In order to simplify the construction process significantly, a catalogue of various 'Regelbauten' was created. It was a collection of a huge amount of pre-designed bunkers, which could be put up with relative ease. This page archives all of the types known to have been constructed in the Baliwick.
Artillery Casemates
Artillery Casemates
Kanalinsel Nr. 692/ Jägerstand [Schartenstand für 10.5cm Kannone]
Kanalinsel Var. 670 [Schartenstand für 10.5cm Kannone]
631(b) [Schartenstand für 4.7cm Pak K36(t)]
676 [Schartenstand für 4.7cm Pak K36(t)]
Communication Infrastructure Bunkers
Communication Infrastructure Bunkers
Dezimeter-Gerät-Stand - [Kanalinsel-Typ für Dezimeter Gerät]
Verstärkungsamt-Stand - [Kanalinsel-Typ für Verstärkungsamt]
Nachtrichten-Stand - [Kanalinsel-Typ für Nachrichten]
617 [Stand für Netzknotenpunkt]
Open Emplacements
Open Emplacements
Schwere Gerschütz-Stand- [S?-Typ für 30.5cm Marine Kannone]
M153- [Gerschütz-Stand für 15cm SK C/28]
L401 - [Stand für 8.8cm Flak]
L402 - [Stand für 2cm Flak)
L409 - [Stand für 2cm Flak)
L419 - [Stand für 3.7cm Flak]
Fl242 - [Stand für 2cn Flak)
Personnel Shelters
Personnel Shelters
Wa. Prüf 514- [Kanalinsel Typ Unterstand für 1 Gruppe]
668 - [Unterstand für 1 Gruppe]
622 - [Unterstand für 2 Gruppe]
501 - [Unterstand für 1 Gruppe]
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