File:MP2 Observation Tower, La Corbiere - Geograph.ci - 292.jpg
MP2 Observation tower, La Corbiere. Constructed during World War II by the German occupying forces.
This is the second of three Artillery Direction Finding Towers (MP1 is located at Noirmont and MP3 at Les Landes).
They were built with 2.5 to 3.5 metre thick ferro-concrete to house artillery observers who were supposed to use triangulation methods to determine where their german shells were landing in the sea.
After this was found to be a flawed method they became simple observation towers.
This tower is now available as holiday accommodation sleeping 6 for from �910 per week.
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From channel-islands.geographs.org; transferred by User:oxyman using geograph_org2commons.
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Bob Embleton
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This is the second of three Artillery Direction Finding Towers (MP1 is located at Noirmont and MP3 at Les Landes).
They were built with 2.5 to 3.5 metre thick ferro-concrete to house artillery observers who were supposed to use triangulation methods to determine where their german shells were landing in the sea.
After this was found to be a flawed method they became simple observation towers.
This tower is now available as holiday accommodation sleeping 6 for from �910 per week.
(Reusing this file)
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This image was taken from the Geograph Channel Islands collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Bob Embleton and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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