Discovery
66 blockhouses to a bunker, linked between two ammunition stores, a machine room and a barracks, all in the rock.
3 independent structures, small forts and double row of barbed wire.
Bunkers | |
C1 & C3 | 1 x 7.5 cm cannon per bunker, model 1939, semi-automatic |
C2 | 1 identical cannon. 1 x 4.7 cm special antitank cannon, semi-automatic 1 observation post (firing point). |
M1 and M4 | 1 x 7.5 mm submachine gun per bunker, model 1911, water cooled. 1 observation post per bunker1 emergency door per bunker. |
M2 and M3 | 2 x 7.5 mm submachine gun per bunker, model 1911, water cooled.
1 emergency door. |
MM1 and MM2 | Ammunition stores. |
Small forts
East, west, south (from 1941) to strengthen the external defense, six 7.5 mm submachine guns, 1911 model, water cooled.
All items, cannons and submachine guns, are of the "fortress" type, i.e. minimum doorway, panorama and special watch.
Infantry
(From 1943 for external defense).
1 x 24 mm anti-tank arquebuse.
2 x 8.1 cm lance-mines.
1 x 4.7 cm anti-tank cannon.
4 x 7.5 mm automatic rifles.
8 x 9 mm submachine guns.
Engine room
2 diesel-electric generators, heating, ventilation, filtering, workshop.
Barracks
Barracks protected by forced-air and airlock, containing the command post, the office, the officers’ mess, telephone center, cooking with outbuildings, two mess rooms for 40 and 60 men, three rooms for officers and senior NCOs, three dormitories for 103, an infirmary with an operating room.
Staff in 1945 | Commander | Officers | Non-commissioned senior officers |
Salaried non- commissioned officers |
Soldiers | Total |
Gunners | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 38 | 51 |
Machine gunners | 8 | 16 | 24 | |||
Riflemen | 1 | 1 | 14 | 16 | ||
Services (mechanical, batteries, phone, ammunition, cooking, health) |
2 | 9 | 11 | |||
Doctors | 1 | 1 | ||||
Small forts | 3 | 24 | 27 | |||
Total | 1 | 4 | 2 | 22 | 101 | 130 |