LG cloche
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The LG cloche was a defensive element common to many Maginot Line ouvrages. The fixed cupola was deeply embedded into the concrete on top of a combat block, with only the top surface visible. The open
An LG grenade launcher cloche
JM cloche
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The JM cloche was an element of the Maginot Line. It was a non-retractable non-rotating cupola of steel alloy like GFM cloches, but were armed with twin heavy machine guns, as opposed to the lighter a
LG cloche
…of the bunker. 75 units were installed in the Maginot Line. LG refers to Lance-Grenade (grenade launcher). Unlike other cloches such as the GFM or the JM, the LG cloche was effectively "blind", possessing a single shuttered orifice 60 millimetres (2.4 in) in diameter in its flat crown. It had no observation…
The outside of a JM cloche
The inside of a JM cloche equipped with the twin machine guns