Normandy trip 2010 (including then and now photos)

Thank you, Paul, Brian.

Your kind words are much appreciated.

 

John excellent work
well done and thank you for your time and effort

 

Like Oliver said, More, Sir. I would like more.

Well done and thanks so very much for sharing.

phil

 

Thanks for the photo's enjoyable, looked like a very good trip indeed.

 

Thanks all.

The overall trip was very good, even if the weatther was a little damp to start with.

Here's some photos from the trip.

Does anybody recognise this fire control bunker? Which famous movie did it appear in?

 

Batterie Longues.

Battery of Longues Sur Mer

 

Bang on, James.

One of the guns at the battery.

 

John
One of the guns at the battery.


John that is a bloody great photo.

I must spread rep around before I can give you any more , but I do think that photo of the gun is a really very good.

 

John


John that is a bloody great photo.

I must spread rep around before I can give you any more , but I do think that photo of the gun is a really very good.

I have to agree with james. That is a superb photograph of the gun and bunker.

Regards
Tom

 

Thank you chaps.

It was one of those 'I reckon that will make a good shot' photos as I walked past the gun.

This is a close up of some of the markings on the end of the barrel that I noticed after taking the photo.

 

This is a german bunker which is situated on the hillside overlooking Port-en-Bessin. It was the scene of heavy fighting between the german defenders and 47 Royal Marine Commando and was eventually taken by the commandos on the evening of 7th June.

For reasons unbenown to me, the soil that you see banked up around the bunker was put there postwar.



The entrance in to the bunker is now unfortunatley blocked up.

 

Odd - that 'embrasure' had pipework in it in 2006. I thought it was a service reservoir? What did the plaque say, I'm sure that wasn't there?

Edit: someone's dans le merde. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Page 2.

 

One from down on the beach , the bunker has been sealed up.

 

The Douvres Radar Station - another site which seems to be open only around the time of the "Invasion" .

Musée Radar, Douvres-la-Délivrande | chrishowells.co.uk

Some photos taken , the radar frame has been largely been rebuilt / restored in the 1950's.

Worth a visit.

 

Odd - that 'embrasure' had pipework in it in 2006. I thought it was a service reservoir? What did the plaque say, I'm sure that wasn't there?

Edit: someone's dans le merde. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Page 2.

I'm glad you said that as it looked like a 50s fosse septicque (septic tank) to me. There's another outside Courseulles, and another near Arromanches; maybe they will have plaques on soon?

Wonder who put the memorial up??

 

It's not a brilliant photo, but this is a June 1944 photo of Douvres, taken by an officer of 79th Armoured.

 

Here's a quick overlay of the contemporary map on the modern GoogleEarth picture. Reference points are the lock in the harbour and the road along its north-eastern edge that turns south. Note the harbour has been enlarged.

The reservoir is the keyhole-shaped grey blob at the top of the zigzag path, conveniently not obscured by anything on the map . Bearing in mind it's above ground level, you'd have thought photo-recce would have picked it up if it had been there in 1944.

 

Some photos of a Kubelwagen taken at Veriville on the 5th.