Bunker MM 15 Thimister-Clermont

This is bunker MM 15 of the PFL 1, the 1st line of defense of the 'Position Fortifiée de Liège'.

MM refers to the sector 'Manaihant-Les Margarins-' where it is the 15th of a total of 20 bunkers.

The bunker is located in a meadow and is no longer accessible. The gun opening facing north has been bricked up. The bunker now serves as an anchor point for a billboard. Remarkably, this bunker has no ventilation holes on the front. It seems that the contractor who built the bunkers in this sector did not include the vents in his design and thus did not build them in. The various nearby bunkers also do not have ventilation holes.

As general information it can be mentioned that this bunker like most bunkers of the PFL are made of reinforced concrete and were built in the early 1930s. The walls and ceiling are 1.30 m thick. They had to withstand shelling with 150mm shells. Only the walls at the rear are slightly less thick, because in principle they were not exposed to enemy fire.

When the bunkers lost their strategic value for the defense of Belgium after the war, the metal of the hatches and doors was sold as scrap metal. Also, most of the plots on which they were situated were sold, so many bunkers are now on private plots. Like bunker MM 15.

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Source

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