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Part 13 c.

  
     
 

Medium Flak.

  
     
 

 

  
  The medium Flak consisted of 22 3,7 cm Flak 36/43.  Considering how heavily Grove was otherwise fortified, it is odd that these guns were not mounted on St. Flak bunkers.  On the contrary the gun-pits were in Feldmässig Aufbau, but in many cases a 621 functioned as crew-shelter in the site.  
     
  On 1 FEB 1945 one of the batteries manning these guns were 1./Flak.Abt. 836, but there must have been two more batteries, possibly 3. and 6./Flak.Abt. 836.  
     
 

 
     
 

Location of Medium Flak Zuge.

  
     
     
         
  3,7 cm Flak 43.   Erd-Stand für 3,7 cm Flak.  Interior measurement 6.5 x 6.5 m.  
         
     
         
  3,7 cm Flak 36, via Mr. D. Mouritzen.   Flak Zug Stellung.  
         
     
         
  Many G-Stands on Grove were built on small mounds.   Flak Zug Stellung.  In eight sites a 621 was used as shelter/command post.  
         
     
         
  Bettung found in a site, which based on written sources should be a 3,7 cm Flak Stellung.  The guns mounted here were 3,7 cm Flak on Sockellafette.   Drawing of the Bettung opposite. Eight mounting bolts in a 100 cm diameter circle.    
         
     
         
  The excavated side of the Bettung. Curiously constructed like a layer-cake with a layer of un-shuttered, low quality concrete between two shuttered layers of high quality concrete.   A similar Bettung found in a site, which based on written sources should be a 3,7 cm Flak Stellung - at FlH Hadersleben. L. Petersen.  
         
     
         
 

 - at VOGELNEST.  The Bloodhounds.

  

 - and at KORALLE. The Bloodhounds.

  
         
 

 Pictures found on e-bay in March 2011.