WW2 GERMAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN POST DESIGNED AS WATER TOWER

The small town of Folligny - around 15km east of the port town of Granville on the west Cotentin coast - was an important railway hub on the Caen to Rennes and Paris to Granville network.

On June 17, 1940, it was subjected to a brief, but devastating attack by 11 German Stuka dive bomber aircraft which destroyed the rail lines and a large part of the town within minutes, leaving 39 people dead and many more injured.

Once the area had been occupied, the Germans set about rebuilding the railway for their own use and included a series of defensive bunkers and a tunnel on the outskirts of the town.

Perhaps the most unusual German structure here is in the cow field to the south east of the main site. Here you can see an anti-aircraft gun tower, or Flakturm, which has been designed to look like a small water tower.
This building featured steps up the side to allow access to the 2cm AA gun positioned on top, but these are no longer in place.

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