Bunker BM 6 Cheratte-Bas

Rue de Visé, 4602 Cheratte-Bas

Belgium Liège Cheratte-Bas

This is bunker BM 6 from the sector Barchon-Meusse (BM).

It's the sixt and last bunker from this sector in the 2nd line of defense for the city of Liège, la Position Fortifiée de Liège (PFL 2) and belongs to fort Barchon.

The bunker was well camouflaged. It was built as a house, with roof. The shed was built after the war and is not a part of the bunker.

The bunker would have 4 gunopenings. At groundlevel in the left gunopening a 47 mm anti-tank canon was positioned. At the right was the gunopening for soldiers to fire their rifeles. On the first floor the left opening was for the machinegun. The right opening was for the searchlight. An additional gunopening was located at the streetside.

Bunker BM 6 was to protect the road, the railway and river Meuse.

Because the bunker more and mort did not fit the nabourhood, the turned the bunker witp murals in to a work of art. In the gunopenings there are banners with phothographs how the bunker looked like before the war.

The walls and ceiling of the bunkers from the PFL were standard 1.30 m. thick and of reinforced concrete. They had to be able to withstand shells of 150 mm.

The bunkers were built in the 1930s.

After the war, when the bunkers lost their strategic value for the Belgian army, the plots of land on which they stood were sold. All the metal of the hatches and doors was sold as scrap metal.

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