Guess the Architecture! for 10/17/12

A pillbox (for headache medicine)! Judging by the architecture & looks of the gun as well as the vegetation I'm guessing it's part of the Maginot Line, which puts it in France along the German border (if it was foggier I might have guessed somewhere in England...).

I'll pick the Siegfried Line

Hitler visits the Siegfried Line

New housing project being built in Iran....

Hamburger stand at a mine in South Africa.

It looks to me to be a Nazi bunker located along the coast of Normandy where the Allied Invasion was on June 6th, 1944 (D-Day).

But at what landing Beach? Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno or Sword?

[If you look very closely at the top of the bunker, there's pockmarks....possibly they're impact points resulting from the shipboard naval guns?]

The "potmarks" are in a pattern. I would say they are meant to be there.

Hitler built the "Atlantic Wall" from the top of Norway to the border of Spain. Here is a picture borrowed from Wiki:-

Look here for further details:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wall

I still don't know if the picture we are being asked about was once part of it or not, but it is possible which is why I posted it earlier.

Do not forget, the Nazis did not have a clue as to where the landings would take place (they would had to have secret info to only build where the Allies actually landed!), so they had to build it as long as possible....

Pas de Calais was their best guess....Till the landings started and it still took several days before the Nazi high command treated it as the REAL landings, instead of a feint!!!! Lucky for us all.

I do believe its possibly the fortification at "Longues-sur-Mer"......

Andy's right.

German WWII Coastal Artillery, Longues Sur-Mer, Normandy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell_w_b/318483890/

You guys cracked the case, well done

This one in particular can be found on Omaha Beach!

...which is well worth a visit when passing, from experience. Very poignant.

Pointe Du Hoc, part of the Atlantic wall, near Bayuex

Found this....look similar?

The photo is taken from Hjørring, Nordjylland, Denmark...

Found it....it's a gun bunker in Longues-sur-Mer, France...

Yep. That is it. It is a number 11 alright. Well done Andy.

BAB.

It is coastal gun bunker in France built by the German Army durring WWII. The step-like structures around the gun port prevent projectiles from ricocheting into the bunker.

Russell, did you not see the post by Thong just above ?

No matter, that's an interesting tid-bit about the step-like opening. It sounds very plausible, but do you have any source to back that up ? I'm just wondering if it is incidental to how the thing was made. Overlapping steelwork or something of the sort. There must be a site with detail on design og gun emplacements, but I've no idea where.

I didn't notice the earlier answers. Stair stepping the horizontal surfaces of a gun port makes the form work more complex, but decreases the ricochet danger because most bullets and shell fragments orginate at about ground level. The vertical surfaces of the gun port are not stair stepped because that would actually increase the tendancy of projectiles coming from the left or right to ricochet into the bunker. Bunker design is an especially military type of engineering. There may be a textbook published by West Point or Cranfield University. There may also be some Department of the Army pamphlets (DA PAMs) on the subject.