Rommel's Deathtrap - Biggest Bunker in Normandy.

I actually banged my head on the the Grand Bunker's rangefinder during a visit to this Fabulous museum! We stayed for 2 weeks in Bayeux and toured from east to west, Merville to Sainte-Mère-Église. A Memorable, if sobering, once in a lifetime trip for me!

Great video thanks. My father attacked the Merville battery and was one of the 65 left after the attack, luckily without a scratch

Appreciated you illustrated the defense line and the layers of range finder bunker.

My late father landed on Sword, and he told me that it was very straighforward. The training that they'd had in England was far harder than the actual landing and most of the Germans either retreated and reformed to the south or surrendered. There were a few die hards and fanatics but they were easily dealt with. The real trouble started after Bayeux on the push for Caen, that was where my dad got blown up by a near miss from a German 88 and ended up back in Britain for 5 months before rejoining his regiment in Holland on the push for the Rhine. That was where the sh*t really did hit the fan.

Another excellent video. The Flak Tower/Bunker Museum looks like a must see if visiting Normandy Beaches.

Echt ik ben zo super blij met mede nerds zoals jij! Jou kaartjes maken het eindeloze puzzel met nieuwe / oude kaarten overbodig en is super satisfying om in een oogopslag een hele WN voor je te hebben in het huidige terrein. Echt massive respect.

I was a few weeks ago in Den Haag and Hoek van Holland. they dinged up some bunkers and they looked like they were build a few weeks ago.

Certainly a most enjoyable video tour of parts of the Normandy bunkers defenses. Watching these videos has certainly been enlightening regarding the construction of the German defenses and what the various allied forces had to deal with when coming ashore. Some things were completely different from what I expected especially as to how things were portrayed in the movie "The Longest Day". I really would like to see the museum's and the fortifications that are still intact but your videos are the next best thing to being there and I hope to see more.

I’ve just visited Normandy for the June celebrations, my grandad landed at Sword beach the Grand bunker museum is fantastic. Very humbling experience

My dad landed there, on that beach, on 6th june, early in the day. An 88 was ranged onto the beach, firing all but horizontally. The narrative here is very limiuted in cover. The 88 destroyed most of dad's platoon and he lost many of his friends on the beach. Smaller English pieces of artillery were brought to the beach to deal with it and other enemy installations. The 88 destroyed them, time after time. Yet the brave British sodiers brought their replacement guns on to the beach to replace the destroyed guns. Such bravery from a constript army. Finally the 88 was silenced. I see that at the bunker there is an 88 on display. I think of dad's dead pals whenever I pass that gun, which is often, since we live near there now. Surviving he war, dad ended in Berlin, at Spandau, then home. He never forgot the beach landing though. And now more slaughter in Europe.

Damn; I missed that beach section having made my way to Pegasus bridge for my photos last month. Definitely need to revisit. Amazing how much there is to see not including all the museums. One could argue that with so much on Utube to view, no need to see everything for yourself.

Panzer Picture i am so by impressed with your in depth knowledge of the Normandy D day defences, and your recommended museums videos i am just so eager to visit and experience all these places, along with your atmospheric music it would be an utterly awesome experience as a spectator. But having said that, if was actually there as an allied soldier at that time i would have absolutely messed myself with shock and uncontrollable fear.

A couple of years back, and driving from the South of France, I pretended to get the ferry times wrong, which meant that the family had to stay an extra 4 days in Normandy (a whopping €30 for the mistake, and the next available ferry). Neither the wife nor the kids had any interest in war stuff as we set out to tour the beaches. They do now. 🔥🇮🇪💚☘️

IMPRESSIVE WORK MERCI !

Excellent video! I always enjoy your interesting content that is presented.

Thank you very much for that great video I can't tell you how I enjoyed it And how well it was made great job keep up the good video

Didn’t visit this area in May but certainly will do so next year. You can see quite a lot of what you mention from the deck of the Brittany ferry. Very interesting explanation. Thanks M (Malvern UK)

I just looked up Commando Philippe Kieffer's bio on Wikipedia. He was already 40 in 1939, being born in Haïti. Worked at a bank in the USA, was fluent in English and took part in various commando raids prior to and following the D-Day landings. Tragically, while he was one of the first Free French to enter Paris, his son was killed by the Germans at around the same time. He died in November 1962 after a long illness, ages 62.

Great episode. What a knowledge and skill, the many drawings are very clear. Came across your channel by chance, which is quite strange because I myself also have a channel about bunkers and have been searching a lot on YouTube for similar channels but only now come across, I subscribed right away. I'm really looking forward to your next episode.

I found a part of British Binoculars in the sand dunes here in about the year 2000. I still have it and i had no idea the extent of the defenses here!