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NormandyBunkers.com is your amazing visitor's guide to D-Day beaches and bunker sites in Normandy with hundreds of locations, maps, pictures and videos, museums sites, tanks, vehicles, and memorials.
D‑Day ‑ Normandy Invasion, Facts & Significance | HISTORY
Oct 27, 2009 · D-Day was the name given to the June 6, 1944, invasion of the beaches at Normandy in northern France by troops from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries during...
Hillman Fortress - Wikipedia
The Hillman Fortress (French: Site fortifié Hillman, German: Widerstandsnest 17) was a German bunker complex and command post built during the Second World War and located near Colleville-Montgomery in Normandy, France.
D-Day: Map of German Defenses at Omaha Beach - Jewish Virtual Library
1 x 8,8 cm protected by a Bunker (finished at 25.04.1944) had the job to guard the beach from the east to the west. The only other 8,8 cm as at WN 72. This is where the National Guard monument is at Vierville.
D-Day: Infrared photos reveal WW2 bunkers in new light - BBC
More than 70 years later, Lynda Laird photographed the remnants of Normandy's bunkers using infrared film, a medium used by the military in WW2 to detect camouflage by exposing a visual spectrum...
Maisy battery - Wikipedia
The batteries at Maisy were D-Day mission objective Number 6 as given to Colonel James Rudder in his Operation Neptune intelligence and US 1st Infantry Division orders. However, he did not brief his men to carry out the mission to Maisy.
Longues-sur-Mer battery - Wikipedia
The battery shelled Allied naval forces off both beaches on D-Day (6 June 1944), but was damaged by Allied shore bombardment the same day, then captured on 7 June 1944 by British ground forces, playing no further part in the Normandy campaign.
Normandy, D-Day, German bunkers in Normandy France
Our Normandy section covers upper and lower Normandy and includes the 7th and 15th German armies respectively and will also feature the Kreigsmarine and Luftwaffe designations.
Typology of bunkers - D-Day Overlord
The generic term “bunker” refers to a set of buildings made of reinforced concrete, of different sizes and functions. There are observation posts, individual firing posts, artillery emplacements, shelters and ammunition bunkers.