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Update

27/10/2012

Theme
The Tobrouk and its evolution
part 3
The Bf 58d
Who are we?

Around a core of people visiting the Atlantic Wall for over 20 years, some
informal team has been formed.
Were all amateurs, in the sense that we have an attraction for the research on
the Wall.
While seriously devoted, none of us are professional, ie we do not draw any
income (it would rather the opposite).

Why these Pdf files ?

This is the only way we can make our research reactive, and make others to join
us, or help us to add whats missed and making an update starting from the
new findings in the field and in the archives.
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indicated, documents from the archives, likewise.

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The 58d is the brother of 58c and a successor VF8

This is the only variant of a Tobrouk where the width of 140 cm of the rear part of Vf 8 is kept. This by moving the
angle to the combat area, which becomes oblique, leaving 45 cm (as in 58 c) on the sidewall, which offers a
sufficient storage space for ammunition.
So it stores the same amount of ammunition (40-50000 MG bullets and 720 grenades for mortar), despite the small
space.
It is also designed to have a stove. Its height is always 190cm.

 MY-T1 Productions 2012

MY-T1 Productions 2012

It can also be equipped with an octagonal combat room.

Here under a Plan of a extremely rare version of the Bf 58 d at StP. Re303 (7 KVA B):

70

7KVA B
30

140

44
80
44

StP./Wn. Re. 303

47
64

94

42

80

43

43

Bau nr.
Opgemeten : 22/10/2011

58

38
8

Getekend : 30/10/2011

38

58
110

8
19

Keringen

111

Type : Tobrouk Variant Bf 58d

58

There is also a version to be built into the rock:

Plan Nr. 33

It's like the 58c, a building with a smaller volume of concrete. The second drawing mentions the name of the new
58d: the Bf 202.

The possibility to extend the back room is also there.

Here under a plan of an observatory version :
7KVA B
140
150

58

Pointe Saint Mathieu

70
330

84
40 55

StP./Wn. Re. 305 Holzendorf

41

80

Bau nr.

41

Opgemeten : 10/11/2011

80

Getekend : 20/11/2011

140

Type : Tobrouk Variant Bf 58d

Plan Nr. 11

80cm

There also exists thicker versions as seen in the article about the 58c

All drawings are made from measurements taken by the group.

All documents used in this article are from the Bundesarchiv Freiburg
Belfra