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

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

RARE VIEW OF GERMAN RADIO BUNKERS IN NORMANDY Here’s a view of a series of bunkers which largely go under the radar for visitors to Normandy. This is the Erika II radar station in St Pierre Église to the east of Cherbourg on the northern Cotentin peninsula. Hidden behind tall hedgerows away from passing travellers, there are six installations here for the late-war, long-range, radio guidance system plus two generator and command bunkers - one of which is being developed and refurbished inside. M

RARE GERMAN TRENCHES IN NORMANDY Take flight from inside a MG position to get an overhead view of a WW2 German trench system in Normandy. It’s rare to find concrete trenches from WW2 in Normandy, and even rarer to find them so extensive and in such good condition as these. These interwoven passages at Wn123 Havre de Houlvi, near Gatteville, link a series of gun and mortar positions, a searchlight stand, observation posts, and personnel shelters. There are hundreds of metres of trenches here and