Inside a personnel bunker at Pointe du Hoc, Normandy

[krashdown102]

lol What Bunker?

[RebelSonBand]

This is not the work of combat ingeeniers....This bunker was hit through the slit where the gun is,in the same time as the ammunitions-doors was opened...Im not sure,but I think it was the battleship Arkansas that hit this battery in a firefight..About the lucky shoot nobody knows for sure------as there was no German survivers...

[VideoHistoryToday]

@RebelSonBand I must admit I have never heard of this. I've heard of art shells going through doors at other sites (Azeville for example) The only info I can find is that an ammunition bunker was destroyed by Rangers (and I would expect it was a demolition expert or engineer) on 7th June 1944 (see battle of normandy tours website). I would be interested on any ref details you could provide for this shell strike. Thanks.

[RebelSonBand]

@VideoHistoryToday I have looked on the net,it wasent the Arkansas that made the lucky shoot...I read about it in the book "D-Day" by Stephen E. Ambrose... As I remember the bunker was totally destroyed,pieces the seize of small cars flying around,but was it a the Point ?? I will look into it,perhaps I can find it in the book.. Let you know :)

[VideoHistoryToday]

@RebelSonBand I've done more research and got my stories mixed up. American engineers blew up two casements at the Crisbecq battery in tests. At Point du Hoc the Rangers just destroyed the bunkers themselves. The officer at the Crisbecq battery asked the officer at the Azeville battery to fire on his battery to help repel US troops assauting it. One shell from this barrage went straight into the sealed doorway of a Crisbecq bunker severly damaging it. See my Crisbecq video about 4 mins in.

[dannymulstege]

Why didn't you film the holes.

That was so creepy.

You should have been a german soldier at that time and get all the bombs

of the marine and airbombers over you.

Just imaging it.

I was there in june 2010.

Nice place to visit.

[flippyflyer]

I was there this last D-Day...truly an amazing experience to see and behold...Contrary to US public sentiment, the French DO appreciate what the Allies did for them...

[ACEMASTER14]

whats 1:27?

[VideoHistoryToday]

@ACEMASTER14 Its looks to me like part of the front roof/wall of a bunker. The steel beams would have run across the front of the bunker to make a ceiling. If I remember correctly American Engineers used the bunkers here to practice on. They were trying to see how strong the bunkers were...'very strong' was the answer. They concluded it wasn't practical to blow them all up so there are still 100's all over northern France.

[genericsfarm1127]

german bunker doors are wide open therefore allied forces easily throw a grenade and swicth on their flamethrower unlike in vietnam the door is in vietnam the other door is in cambodia and china

[flippyflyer]

I never understood why people at places of great tragedy and triumph laugh and carry on as if they were at an amusment park...when you are on such sacred ground where many triumphed and also died, please take the time to be thankful, reflect and for love of God, SHUT UP!

[maxidog07]

I went in there :)

[JakyConLaSuaGibson]

I was there last week

[christof139]

On D-Day, the rangers found the 4 French 155mm guns in a field by an apple orchard to the north and destroyed all of them. The guns had been removed by the Germans just prior to the invasion until the bunkers were completed, and they never were completely finished.

[OzzyJ0]

and when the allies got to the bunker at pointe du hoc there was no gun only a big telephone pole painted black

[OzzyJ0]

i thought the bunkers were all collasped from the attack on d-day

[mumugamer2006]

the bunkers on point du hoc were more underground than those on omaha beach etc.

[CrowleysGhost]

I walked into that in the dark, in the pouring rain, and I was the only one in the entire area on the D-day anniversary (65th) at 11pm. Was a little spooky with my small flashlight. I looked through the other side of that gunsight you see as you walk down the steps--it's a metal-reinforced hole trained on the only entrance. The room it's in once had a steel door that has since been removed.

[SpookyShAd0w]

i was also in that bunker and its really cool!

[Blondhorsecrazy]

i really wanna go see the bunker's

[masterDevis]

So the lights are still on, eh? I thought all the bunkers were abandoned after D-Day. They're keeping them intact?

[VideoHistoryToday]

The only one which have lights are in special protected areas or museum sites. Pointe du Hoc is now American land and maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) on behalf of America (in the same way France gave America the land which is today the Normandy American Cemetery (Saving Private Ryan opening/ending sequences). The entire French coast is littered with unlit abandoned German bunkers. The biggest is probably the casements at Battery Todt (see my other video on this).

[BarkeeperLF]

when was this movie recorded?

[VideoHistoryToday]

2nd September 2007.

[BarkeeperLF]

Okay, thanks. I was there in June 2007 and I thought I recognized myself in the vid (I was wearing a white t-shirt then)

[ashec]

I think my dad has been there you have been it looks awesome i wannt go am only 16 tho :P

[FIFA07Addicted]

anyway, did you thought about going to the eder dam? maybe it is a very nice WWII place to go...

[FIFA07Addicted]

i don´t know why is this a less-known beach. the 2nd ranger bt. did a bloody nice work there.