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Maginot Line Bunkers #10 Batterie Strengwald

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Strengwald Batterie is a two gun battery that was equipped with 240mm guns with a range of 17-18km, aimed at the Rhine bridges in the Basel region. The battery is located to the left of casemate #109 and is shown as three black triangles. It has five shelters and a 40cm railway track to feed the guns from the ammunition shelters


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Northern Gun Emplacement, now used as a sort of lecture room.

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Inside the North Gun stores shelter
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Ammunition store

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Door to Ammunition store
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Inside ammunition store
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Inside South Gun stores shelter
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South Gun emplacement, with ready ammunition shelter on right. Someone has put a roof on.
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Left side ready ammunition store
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40cm railway track to the gun emplacement

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40cm railway track from the ammunition store to the guns, there was a turntable to get the wagons with the shells into the gun emplacement

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Ventilation shaft to the gunners shelter

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Gunners shelter

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Armoured door to the gunners shelter

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Inside the gunners shelter, ducting for comms on the left floor. Seating brackets along the wall, they still swing out.

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MG position at the door
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Gunners shelter

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