6.Batterie de Longues
Located on the landing beaches between Arromanches and Port en Bessin, the Batterie de Longues was built as part of the coastal defense line Atlantik Wall of the German Navy in the first half of 1944 within four months. This German coastal defense battery included a firing command post and four bunkers each harboring their original guns of 150mm. It played a strategic role both to the Allied forces and the Germans on the D-Day. Earlier in May 1944, the battery was operational, but the fire control station located at the edge of the cliff did not yet have the equipment needed to calculate an effective fire on lakeside objects.
On the night before the D-Day landings, the Batterie de Longues yielded a long-lasting battle with the Allied forces subjecting it to a barrage comprising approximately 1,500 tons of bombs though much of this only affected a nearby village. During this time, the five guns which were set gradually incapacitated, and some were destroyed by direct hits. By the end of the next day, the Allied troops seized Gold Beach and captured the crew of the battery (184 men, half of them over 40 years old)
Today, the plant is one of the best preserved in France. Only here can one see the original cannons from the time that could fire 45 kg heavy shells 22 km far.