Normandy - Pointe du Hoc

[jollyjack]

Was looking at Pointe du Hoc at the empty gun posts there. Wondered if i should put some type artillery gun there or a firing point ..

Any one made up a German anti shipping group there yet?

It should make a nice setup up for a historic event, with an a20 raid before D-Day.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointe_du_Hoc

Edited October 31, 2022 by jollyjack

[jollyjack]

from the link above for starters?:

 

[DN308]

I should have the actual layout made by the Germans.

Maybe you would appreciate a pic of it?

[jollyjack]

Yep, i just started a setup, and the fortification vehicles from IL2 to nazi linked entries.

Now i need to get (all) them firepoints active when the ships come in ...

[DN308]

So I guess this is a yes?

[jollyjack]

59 minutes ago, DN308 said:

So I guess this is a yes?

?

[BlackSix]

1 hour ago, jollyjack said:

Yep, i just started a setup, and the fortification vehicles from IL2 to nazi linked entries.

Now i need to get (all) them firepoints active when the ships come in ...

I hope you know about this:

 

"As the other Rangers moved toward their objectives, they soon realized that the Germans had moved the guns; many of the emplacements/casemates, damaged by the Allied bombardment,  held only dummy guns made out of painted telephone posts.  Two days before the attack, the Germans moved the guns away from Pointe du Hoc.  After discovering that the guns had been repositioned, the Rangers regrouped and set out under intermittent sniper, automatic weapons, and mortar and artillery fire to find the new locations of the artillery."

 

"At around 0900, a two-man patrol from Company D consisting of First Sergeant Leonard Lommell and Staff Sergeant Jack E. Kuhn stumbled into a camouflaged gun position approximately 250 yards south of the coastal highway and discovered five of the six missing 155mm guns (the sixth was never found) and large quantities of ammunition.  With Kuhn covering him, Lommell went to work destroying the guns.  He dispatched two of them by placing thermite grenades in the guns’ recoil mechanisms, effectively fusing the parts together.  After smashing the sights of a third gun, Lommell returned to friendly lines to acquire more thermite grenades, but upon arriving back at the gun position, he found that a second patrol from Company E had finished the job.  The Rangers returned to their lines, but not before tossing grenades into the powder charges and starting a large fire.  A runner was also sent off to let Lieutenant Colonel Rudder, who had moved his CP to the top of the cliffs, knew that the guns, the main focus of the assault on Pointe du Hoc, had been located and eliminated."

 

https://armyhistory.org/rudders-rangers-and-the-boys-of-pointe-du-hoc-the-u-s-army-rangers-mission-in-the-early-morning-hours-of-6-june-1944/

[DN308]

I guess @jollyjack ask for the firing point long before the DDAY. Circa 1943 and before Germans decided to change from open sky to bunkers gun pits

[jollyjack]

Thanks Alex. Now lets order some telephone posts from Ugra?

Looks like you are the one to design something historic, my battle so far is getting Todt and some US ships to fire upon another.

Edited November 1, 2022 by jollyjack

[DN308]

Other batteries were laid out along the coast not so far from the « Pointe du Hoc ». There is one that opened up on the fleet without ever been spotted and bombed before and during dday.

[BlackSix]

I've found some pics:

 

 

[DN308]

On the first pic is the layout

on the second one, the firing range from each strongpoint and battery from the Pointe du Hoc to the south Cherbourg area.

Don’t hesitate to ask 

Edited November 1, 2022 by DN308

[jollyjack]

Great stuff ... not at all like the default fortification group in the game presets.

 

BTW i wonder what to do with all these new fortification blocks: bf_n_aaposheavy, bf_n_aa-posmid, especially bf_n_artpos, bf_n_bunker.

Are you supposed to put linked entry artillery vehicle stuff there? Some seem quite deep for that.

[DN308]

I’ll have an eye on that area and maybe the others to see what to do with it. I’ll see if I can mock the actual batteries and flak nests on different points on the coast. If I can do something realistic, I’ll post it as groups or templates.