Towering over the beaches, the great guns of "Battery du Longues" were still in their massive concrete emplacements, only
one of which had been destroyed, prior to the landings.

Batterie du Longues

My son Daniel

Batterie du Longues

An explosion in this bunker did this.

My son Daniel who accompanied me on another trip to Normandy in 2006.
Inside one of the turrets of the Batterie du Longues guns.

Gives new meaning to the term "Toy Gun"

Canadian Cemetery at Juno

Over the next few days, I visited the other invasion beaches. At Arromanches the skeletal remains of the artificial "Mulberry Harbour"* , still surrounds the bay.

*An artificial harbour made by sinking giant hollow concrete "caissons" and surplus ships. used to make up for the lack of natural harbours in Normandy

This German pillbox is actually in St. Malo but it so demonstrates the violence of the invasion. These are the results of American Tanks taking on a German machine gun pillbox. It is close to 25 cm thick steel. It is interesting to note that there is only one hole which penetrated the metal.