Defense Bunker VM22

This is bunker VM22 of the 1st defense line of La Position Fortifiée de Liège, PFL 1.

It is the 23rd of a total of 34 bunkers in this sector, Vesdre-Manaihant. Since bunker VM1 had a secondary bunker VM1ter, this is the 23rd bunker in this sector.

The bunker is located in the middle of a meadow. The original plank supports and wall hooks are still present. Also still present is the pin on which the front part of a maxi-mitraille gun could be secured. The rest of the mount was sold as scrap metal after the war as was the rest of the steel and wood present.

Once the bunkers lost their strategic value to the Belgian Army, all the steel and wood was sold. The plots of land on which they stood were also sold. For this reason, they now often stand in farmers' backyards or meadows and are privately owned.

The bunkers of the PFL were built in the age of 30. The walls and ceilings of these bunkers are of 1.30 m reinforced concrete. They could withstand shells of 150 mm.

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Source

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