Arromanches & Longues Gun Battery, Normandy

A quick look at Arromanches and the Mulberry harbour, before heading up the road towards the naval battery at Longues, which was equipped with four 150-mm guns, housed in casemates, and a range-finding post embedded in the cliff face. The range finder was the one in the film 'The Longest Day'.
It is one of the interesting along the coast, which I try and take my motorcycle friends to. Back in April 2008....

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[Ticonio]

with that music is hard to imagine a battle...

[advancedbiker]

The place is very peaceful and yes it is hard to imagine what it must have been like, only 65 years ago...

[fireblade929]

did u go to pegasus bridge? thats an amazing place along with st marie eglise. the church there is so atmospheric

[advancedbiker]

Pegasus Bridge we visit everytime we go across, St Marie Eglise not as much.

Pegsus Bridge is one of my Youtube clips, went over in in April this year.

[mfirak]

My son were in Arromanches, his first trip to Europe at age 16, made an incredible impression on him. Only regret is we got their too late to go to their museum and had to leave that same night.

[advancedbiker]

You must go again and do the museum, but also find time to do the 360 degree cinema, then the Maisy Battery......

[GodOfWar221]

It's cool that you also went down to the observation bunker which was at the foot of that cliff edge there. The visit to that battery, was one of the highlights of my trip to Normandy, though there were soo many other memorable places that i visited. Luckily when my dad and I visited there weren't many other people there, so I was able to go down into the observation bunker and just sit quietly. It was almost like I could feel the German soldiers at my sides.

[GodOfWar221]

@fireblade929 I myself have been to St.Mere Eglise, as well as Carentan during my recent trip to Normandy two summers ago, and you are absolutely right the cathedral there is incredible. In rememberance of the paratroopers that dropped in the night before the invasion, they have a maniquen of the paratrooper that was caught on the spire when he dropped, as well as a memorial for the 82nd Airborne Division itsself, i'm glad I saw it.

[Ratti666]

I've done most fo the musea and bunkers in Normandy.

It's sad that thye don't have the money nor get (enough) funds to restorate everything.

All is rust and damages, also graffitti etc.. so sad, still my holiday in france made em silent, all the things you see, how it was etc...

[chadntammy]

nice video....if anyone ever wants a good tour with vets in Normandy-Holland-Belgium etc try bandofbrotherstours

Good tour group!

[cMxVanada]

Only at the age of 17 and with minimized travel exposure, it would be unwise to suggest any information I am unsure of. But, with that being said, I have never come across a kinder and prouder people than the inhabitants of Arromanche. This quiet, little town has far more to offer than history and my friends in Canada now know that. Merci Arromanche! Et Merci France!

[nathan3able]

@happybonzo whats a caission?

[happybonzo]

@nathan3able I believe it is one of the Caissions (?)

[ballygeale1]

nathan3able.thats part of the mulberry harbour ,which they towed across the atlanic ochean.

[nathan3able]

what is the thing stuck in the ground at 0:42? please reply.