A heavily damaged, two-loophole artillery semi-caponier.
These type of artillery pillboxes, housing two 76,2mm guns as their main armament, were usually built on the flanks of the strongpoints. With a 7,3 km (4,53 miles) range of fire they were supposed to provide long range anti-tank fire as well as to suppress the efforts of enemy infantry to infiltrate the gaps between neighboring strongpoints.
Both armored housing for the guns were blown off and put to better use by the Germans – mind you, it was 3.689 kg of good quality metal - and that's for a single housing excluding the weight of the gun itself.
Huge chunks of concrete lying around give a clue to the amount of explosive material which had been needed to “gently” extract those heavy lumps of metal.
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