Ouvrage Oberheid
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| Ouvrage Oberheid | |
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| Part of Maginot Line | |
| Northeast France | |
 Machine gun turret, ouvrage Oberheid |
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| Built | |
| Construction materials |
Concrete, steel |
| In use | |
| Controlled by | France |
| Battles/wars | Battle of France |
| Type of work: | Small infantry work (Petit ouvrage - infantry) |
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| sector |
Fortified Sector of Thionville |
| Work number: | A14 |
| Regiment: | 168th Fortress Infantry Regiment |
| Number of blocks: | 1 |
| Strength: | 80 |
Ouvrage Oberheid forms a portion of the Fortified Sector of Thionville of the Maginot Line in northeast France. The petit ouvrage d'infanterie is located on a salient point of the Cattenom Forest between the gros ouvrages Kobenbusch (to the north) and Galgenberg (to the south), which provided covering fire during June 1940, when Oberheid faced daily bombardments and infiltrations.
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[edit] Description
The single comat block has two firing chambers and a central barracks surmounted by a machine gun turret. Each firing chamber has a mixed armament of a machine gun and a 37mm anti-tank gun at one embrasure and a machine gun at the other. The ouvrage is surmounted by a machine gun turret and four [[GFM cloches|automatic rifle cloches (GFM), which provided artillery spotting for the ouvrage Mettrich. The small usine is equipped with two 36 hp Baudouin engines.
[edit] Manning
The ouvrage possessed a garrison of 78 men of the 168th Fortress Infantry Regiment, under the orders of Lieutenants Pobeau and his assistant, Lieutenant Sépulchre.
[edit] Current condition
The French Army continues to control Oberheid. The entrances have been buried.
[edit] References
- Allcorn, William. The Maginot Line 1928-45. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1-84176-646-1
- Kauffmann, J.E. and Kaufmann, H.W. Fortress France: The Maginot Line and French Defenses in World War II, 2006. ISBN 0-275-98345-5
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