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At omaha beach were there really to big bunkers
overlooking the sea like in MOH FRONTLINE?
or were there only one like in saving private ryan.

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Posts: 487 | Registered: Thu February 17 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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I think the ones SPR are a little big too(and MoH). The ones on Omaha where machine gun bunkers set on the bluffs off the beach, each had a demanding field of fire http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/Pvt.Noble/Normandy/100_6225.jpg (bluffs...the concrete wall is the WWII german seawall). Tehy are the super huge ones seen on the movies. Now the Gun bunker you see in SPR where Miller gets Upham is also to close to the beach to have that kinda gun. There are 4 of them off a Brit beach, which are rather famous and the name slips me, here is a pic http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/Pvt.Noble/Normandy/100_6204.jpg . The only "SPR"/"MoH" style I saw in Normandy was called Le Grand Bunker, and it...was...HUGE!! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/Pvt.Noble/Normandy/grandbunker.jpg really tall, really wide, has a couple of tank turrets retro fitted to the side (cant see in the pics) and firing ports all about. Goes a couple storys deep also. Very big, but it overlooks sword beach, so it wouldnt have been in the local of where the US rangers landed or anything. the bluffs off omaha are very far back, 200-300 yards to the base of the bluffs, and the bunkers are situate about halfway up, and spread all the way down, deadly crossfire. When I went it was almost scary looking at them. The seawall is only abot 5 feet tall at the highest places, while in WWII it was about 10-11 feet tall (thanks to them, it keeps the land from eroding into the sea, a german erosion barrier!)
 
Posts: 97 | Registered: Thu March 03 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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I did some research in the past. And the bunkers many machine gun bunkers weren't facing the ocean like in MOH or SPR. They were actually perpendicular with the ocean so multiple bunkers can provide efilating fire.

And the bunker in SPR wasn't as big as I used to think it was. But they were huge in MOHAA and MOHFL
 
Posts: 384 | Registered: Tue March 29 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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I belive the lagre German bunker are at Merville battery near Ouisterham on Sword beach and there is one near Gold beach which has a Skoda made gun in it.
 
Posts: 19 | Registered: Sun June 26 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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The bunkers in SPR were'nt directly facing the beach. They were at angles i think anyway and saving private ryan didnt only have 1 bunker.
 
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