Ouvrage Col du Granon
Ouvrage Col du Granon is a lesser work of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, one infantry block and one observation block covering the Col du Granon as part of the defenses of Briançon and Grenoble. The ouvrage lies at an altitude of.
Description
- Block 1 : two machine gun embrasures.
- Block 2 : one MOM block for a Hotchkiss machine gun.
- Block 3 : one machine gun cloche, one light and one heavy twin machine gun embrasure.
- Block 4 : one machine gun/observation cloche.
- Annex: a small flanking position, unique in the Maginot Line, with one twin Reibel machine gun emplacement.