Comments on: Longues-sur-Mer Battery, Normandy https://mechtraveller.com/2019/10/longues-sur-mer-battery-normandy/ Mechanically-minded travel Fri, 01 May 2026 11:36:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Alastair https://mechtraveller.com/2019/10/longues-sur-mer-battery-normandy/#comment-4770 Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:33:57 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5446#comment-4770 In reply to Verneoz.

… not to mention, shaking with cold, utterly exhausted, and physically drained from spending hours throwing up at sea. It’s amazing any of them had the strength to make it up the beach!

]]> By: Verneoz https://mechtraveller.com/2019/10/longues-sur-mer-battery-normandy/#comment-4769 Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:17:31 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5446#comment-4769 Imagine that you are a platoon, of 19 and 20 year old untested soldiers, in a landing craft trying to make it to the beach while under fire from these guns and their supporting machine gun emplacements. The survivors of the trip to the beach then were faced with the mission to take out those guns. They were scared, courageous, and determined to stop those guns.

]]> By: Alastair https://mechtraveller.com/2019/10/longues-sur-mer-battery-normandy/#comment-4135 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 01:10:10 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5446#comment-4135 In reply to Dwayne Lee.

Thanks Dwayne 🙂
Yes it is accessible, but what kind of accessible do you mean? IE wheelchair accessible? No, not really. Maybe the upper deck… but the lower bunker has steps, sills and uneven floors.

Here it is in 2008 when Undead Hippies photographed it (CC-BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia)

Command Bunker at Longues-sur-Mer in 2008

and now…
Bridge & stairs to Longues-sur-Mer Command Bunker in 2019

So what I mean is, I think the bridge to the upper level is wide enough for wheelchair access, but the ground level access starts with stairs.

]]> By: Dwayne Lee https://mechtraveller.com/2019/10/longues-sur-mer-battery-normandy/#comment-4132 Thu, 31 Oct 2019 20:36:20 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5446#comment-4132 Great article! I visited this site 3 times this year with groups I was hosting. It’s everything you said. Is the command/fire control bunker 300m away on the cliff edge accessible?

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