Description
Bousse is a petit ouvrage with three combat blocks and an entry block. The blocks are linked by an underground gallery with barracks and a utility area (usine). The galleries are excavated at an average depth of up to 30 metres (98 ft).
- Block 1: observation block with one observation cloche (VDP), one automatic rifle cloche (GFM).
- Block 2: Infantry casemate, flanking to the south — one machine gun/anti-tank gun embrasure (JM/AC47), two GFM cloches and one twin machine gun embrasure (JM).
- Block 3: Infantry casemate, flanking to the south one machine gun/anti-tank gun embrasure (JM/AC47), one machine gun embrasure (JM), two GFM cloches, one machine gun turret.
- Entry: one JM/AC47 embrasure, one grenade launcher cloche, one GFM cloche.
A planned Block 4, equipped with an 81mm mortar turret, was not built.
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