Bunker BV 10 Jevoumont

This is Bunker BV 10 at the village of Juslenville.

Bunker BV 10 is part of the sector Becco-Vesdre (BV) of the 1st line of defense for de city of Liège, la Position Fortifiée de Liège (PFL 1) and belongs to the fort of Tancrémont.

The bunker is located on a hill in the Jevoumont-wood. Due to the abundant ivy overgrowth, it was difficult to find and actually perfectly camouflaged. Only because of its angular shape I could finally locate it. Upon pushing aside the ivy, the gun opening only became visible.

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. To illustrate, the caliber of shells a Königstiger could fire was caliber 88 mm. Thus, only heavier caliber field guns could penetrate the concrete and potentially destroy the bunker.

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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Source

• Text: Ed Lewandowski
• Photos: Ed Lewandowski
• La Position Fortifiée de Liège, Coenen & Vernier