Bunker CS 14 Aywaille

This is bunker CS 14 from the sector Comblain-Sougné of the 1st line of defense of the city of Liège, la Position Fortifiée de Liège 1 (PFL 1).

This was the last sector of the PFL 1. This sector ran west into sector Sougné-Becco (SB). Sector CS consisted of 31 bunkers to the south and west of the once planned but never built Fortres of Sougné-Remouchamps.

Bunker CS 14 is only 150 m from bunker CS 15 on the Amblève River. Together, these bunkers guarded the river and the small town of Aywaille. The bunker was equipped with a 47 mm anti-tank gun. The round hole at the rear was from the fan. It should be remembered that when the cannon was fired, the small space in the bunker was quite quickly filled with suffocating smoke, which had to be removed before it suffocated the soldiers present.

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

When after the war the bunkers lost their strategic value for the defense of Belgium, the metal of the hatches and doors was sold as scrap metal.

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Source

• Text: Ed Lewandowski
• Photos: Ed Lewandowski