Inside a personnel bunker at Pointe du Hoc, Normandy

A look at the damage caused by American engineers at Pointe du Hoc Normandy and a walkthrough clip showing the inside of one of the underground German personnel bunkers.

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• hoc
• normandy
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• bunkers
• d-day
• rangers

[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.

[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.

[FIFA07Addicted]

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

[FIFA07Addicted]

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

[krashdown102]

lol What Bunker? 

[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...

[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