Defense Bunker MM 2 Chaineux

Bunker MM 2 is the 2nd bunker from the Manaihant-Les Margarins sector of the 1st defense line of the city of Liège, La Position Fortifiée de Liège 1, PFL 1.

The bunker is located in a meadow and is no longer accessible. Both the entrance and the artillery opening have been closed. Located near a busy intersection, the bunker guarded the eastern side of the sector.

The bunkers were built in the early 1930s. The walls of the bunkers from the PFL line are 1.3 meters thick reinforced concrete. They could withstand shelling with 150mm shells.

When the bunkers lost their strategic value for the defense of Belgium after the war, the metal of the shutters and doors was sold as scrap metal. In this case, so was the entrance gate. Also, most of the plots on which they stood were sold, so many bunkers are now on private plots.

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Source

• Text: Ed Lewandowski
• Photos: Joost Verheijden (1, 2), Ed Lewandowski (3, 4, 5)
• La Position Fortifiée de Liège, Coenen & Vernier.