Description
This gros ouvrage is unusual in having one entrance for both ammunition and personnel. It lacks the large "M1" magazine of other gros ouvrages. The dogleg-shaped layout is relatively short for a gros ouvrage, with less than 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) of underground gallery at an average depth of 30 metres (98 ft) from the entrance to the farthest combat block. Like all gros ouvrages, Billig was provided with a 60 cm railway running through the gallery system to provide materiel. The railway continued out the single entrance and connected to the railway system paralleling the front in the rear zones.
- Mixed entry: Inclined ramp, two automatic rifle/anti-tank gun embrasures (JM/AC47). The mixed entry combines ammunition and personnel access, which is usually separated in a gros ouvrage.
- Block 1: Infantry block with one JM/AC47 embrasure, one machine gun embrasure (JM) and two automatic rifle cloches (GFM).
- Block 2: Infantry block with one machine gun turret and one GFM cloche.
- Block 3: Infantry block with one JM/AC37 embrasure, one JM embrasure and two GFM cloches.
- Block 4: Artillery block with two 75mm gun embrasures, one 75mm gun turret, one grenade launcher cloche (LG) and one GFM cloche.
- Block 5: Artillery block with two 75mm gun embrasures and one GFM cloche.
- Block 6: Artillery block with 81mm mortar turret and one GFM cloche.
- Block 7: Observatory block with one GFM cloche, one grenade launcher cloche and one periscope cloche (VDP).
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