Ouvrage Restefond
Ouvrage Restefond is a work of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one artillery block and three observation blocks at the summit of the Col de la Bonette. The entry block and an artillery block were not completed, and a further block was never built. At, Restefond is the highest Maginot ouvrage.
Description
- Block 1 : one machine gun cloche and one heavy twin machine gun embrasure. A 47mm anti-tank gun was planned.
- Block 2 : one machine gun cloche and two 81mm mortar embrasures.
- Block 3 : one machine gun cloche and one heavy twin machine gun embrasure.
- Block 4 : one observation cloche, one machine gun cloche and one heavy twin machine gun embrasure.
- Block 5 : three 75mm gun embrasures.
- Block 6 : three 75mm gun embrasures, intended primarily for indirect fire.
- Block 7 : three 75mm gun embrasures, later proposed to be armed with a twin 75mm gun turret.