Archaeological Discovery, 2019, 7, 75-83
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DOI: 10.4236/ad.2019.72005 Apr. 1, 2019 75 Archaeological Discovery
The Monitoring Mast of the WWII German W/T
Station Be-2
Giancarlo T. Tomezzoli
Etno-Archaeological Observatory, Munich, Germany
Abstract
A first visit on the site of the WWII German W/T station at Mont Saint-Michel
de Brasparts (Brittany-FR), cover name Be-2, indicated sometime as either B
2 or B2, on 21
st
December 2009 allowed the identification of many compo-
nents and to evaluate their preservation state. The secret Interpretation Re-
port NO. G.590 of the No. 80 Wing RAF of 6
th
October 1942, dedicated to
Be-2, mentioned a cable trench and a short mast may be for calibration pur-
poses, not identified during the first visit, motivated the further visits on 13
th
-
14
th
May 2017 for searching their possible vestiges. This article presents the
vestiges discovered, the feature of the mast and the reconstruction of Be-2.
Keywords
Atlantic Wall, France, Finistère, Saint-Michel, Brasparts, Luftwaffe, FuSan
724/725, Be-2, Bernard, Calibration, Monitoring Mast
1. Introduction
The WWII German W/T (Wireless/Transmission) station Be-2, indicated some-
time as either B 2 or B2, at Mont Saint-Michel de Brasparts (Finistère-FR), was
provided with an antenna Telefunken FuSan 724/725 Bernard for driving Luft-
waffe bombardiers on their targets on Great Britain. The interest for this sophis-
ticated and technologically advanced W/T station motivated a first visit for iden-
tifying the Be-2 surviving components and determining their preservation state.
2. First Be-2 Visit
The first visit of the Be-2 site (Figure 1) took place on 21
st
December 2009, fol-
lowing a suggestion of prof. Mevel of the Rennes University after a visit of the
WWII German radar camp of Monterfil (Dupont et al., 2007), and permitted to
identify the following Be-2 components (Tomezzoli & Dupont, 2011).
How to cite this paper: Tomezzoli, G. T.
(2019). The Monitoring Mast of the WWII
German W/T Station Be-2. Archaeological
Discovery, 7, 75-83.
https://doi.org/10.4236/ad.2019.72005
Received: February 16, 2019
Accepted: March 29, 2019
Published: April 1, 2019
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