Exploring a German BUNKER COMPLEX in Normandy : The Hillman Fortress #swordbeach #hillmanbunker #hillmanfortress #DDay #normandy | History In Your Hand

FALLEN WW2 BUNKERS ON NORMANDY BEACH This Tobruk and H667 casemates rest at odd angles on the beach between Landemer and Urville Nacqueville, Normandy after falling from the low cliffs behind them. One of two H667 types on the beach here, this site - to the west of Cherbourg on the north Cotentin peninsula coast - was codenamed Widerstandsnest 227 and also features an R607 ammo store, R622 twin group personnel shelter (both can be seen in the field on top of the cliffs) and a defensive Tobruk to

THREE GERMAN RADAR BUNKERS ON NORMANDY CLIFFS This first huge structure you can see here is a stand built for a Gustav Mammut radar - one of the biggest radar systems of WW2. The radar was planned to be fixed to the three giant plinths with cables running into the bunker below where the data would be captured and processed. Despite the bunker being finished, the radar array was never completed by the time the Allies captured the site. Located high on the cliffs to the east of the beautiful port

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