V.I.S. Casemate and Air Watchtower
In Strijensas we find three defensive structures at a single location: a dike, a casemate and an air lookout tower.
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In Strijensas we find three defensive structures at a single location: a dike, a casemate and an air lookout tower.
Group shelter type P is a Dutch military structure. It was built in 1940, just before the outbreak of the war. The group shelter doesn’t have any firing ports, except for an access defense port. A group shelter accommodated 8 to 10 soldiers.
This type 502 barracks bunker is unique in that its roof is equipped with a Flakbedding – a type of anti-aircraft weapon.
During Bunker Day, the guides of the Museum Bescherming Bevolking explain what each bunker’s function was during WW2 and later during the Cold War.
This tobruk was found in 2017 during the construction of the Rotterdamse Baan and therefore moved to its current location.
Near the boulevard of Kijkduin, under the dunes, is a hidden tunnel system; a part of the Widerstandsnest 67 HL complex.
A tank wall stood along the entire length of Katwijk boulevard as part of the Atlantic Wall during WWII.
Experience how men and women escaped occupied Holland and continued their resistance against Nazi Germany and Japan from English territory in Museum Engelandvaarders.
The 3-storey high S414 bunker was the main command station for the whole Noordwijk battery.
The ammunition for the Schnellboote, the torpedoes, was stored in a munitions bunker that was specially designed for the purpose.
Hidden on the Paasdal midget golf course is a small communications bunker.
This rare type V143 radar bunker was completed in September 1943 and contained a Mammut radar screen.
Every Widerstandsnest (WN) was fully equipped. The soldiers slept in a separate barracks bunker and the food was prepared daily in the kitchen bunker
This type Küver 451a personnel bunker was part of the W.N. 122
This type V.F. 7a munitions bunker is transformed into a small museum.
This bunker is a special type 638, built to function as a medical emergency centre during an attack.
There are only two of this type of bunker in the whole Atlantic Wall.
This FL250 (Flakgruppen Kommandostand) was nicknamed ‘Kroontjesbunker’ (‘Crown Bunker’) because of the shape of the tower.
A limited force of just 225 Dutch soldiers managed to hold back the 15000 advancing German troops
In this former mess hall you’ll find a exhibition about De Tijger (The Tiger) radar.
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