H631 type bunker, Transatlantic Dock, Cherbourg

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This bunker housed a Skoda 47mm Anti-Tank gun and a MG37 machine gun. Other views of the same bunker can be seen in the later pictures.

Both these weapons were Czech in design and manufacture, and were put to good use by the Germans following their capture of the country in 1938.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/47_mm_kanon_P.U.V._vz._36_(%C5%A0koda_A6)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZB-53