West of the port area of Gravelines and the nuclear power station are a large number of personnel shelters, ammunition stores, plus a rare toilet bunker, water supply building, and Vf6a type observation post.
Spread along the scrubland behind the beach and also in an around the large camping site, many of the buildings are overgrown at Stp Kurt but there’s no missing the R658 on the left as you drive into the dune area.
This multi room water supply bunker features two large rooms – one for a large water tank and the other for a pump. Just a few yards away on the opposite side of the road is the Vf6a observation post – it’s view now obscured by vegetation but still in good condition.
Heading back west towards the campsite takes you past Vf7a and Vf7b ammo storage bunkers and on the edge of the camp you can see the toilet bunker – a heavy duty construction for the size building.
Inside the camp itself, next to the mini golf, is a R502 double group shelter. Two more 502s stand in the dunes in front of the small children’s home near the beach.
The site wasn’t without its defences either and there are Tobruks for machine guns an emplacement for a LAG heavy gun.
On the road to the beach parking is a small memorial to the men of the French Kieffer Commando units.