Normandy Trip… Longues-sur-Mer Gun Battery

Next stop… the Longues-sur-Mer Gun Battery… “Four German bunkers with guns intact, left to guard against seaborne attacks on the city.   The guns, 300 yards inland, were arranged in a semicircle to maximize the firing range east and west and are the only original guns remaining in place in the D-Day region.  They originally formed a critical link in Hitler’s Atlantic Wall defense which ran from Norway to the Pyrenees.  The guns could fire up to 13 MILES at great accuracy, and were a major obstacle to the landings at Omaha and Gold beaches.”

  

We walked towards the cliffs to check out the lone observation bunker which had a strategic view over the channel.  This bunker “directed the firing; field telephones were connected to the gun batteries by underground wires.”

This is the view from inside the bunker…