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Crisbecq Battery (Saint-Marcouf)

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Crisbecq Battery (Saint-Marcouf)

Crisbecq Battery (Saint-Marcouf)

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    1. Le Havre de Quinéville et la batterie d'Azzeville — boucle depuis la batterie Crisbecq

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    April 19, 2024

    It is one of the German batteries of the Atlantic Wall, the most powerful of the D-Day beaches. You can visit no fewer than 22 blockhouses and learn more about this strategic site from which the first cannon shot was fired at dawn on June 6, 1944.

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      October 29, 2021

      Because of the 210mm guns covering Utah Beach, the Saint-Marcouf Battery was of great strategic importance and thus the target of fierce attacks designed to undermine that position.

      Crisbecq was bombarded with hundreds of tons of bombs, which knocked out the main guns but failed to hit the casemates. On June 8, 1944, during an attack by American troops, Lieutenant Ohmsen requested Azeville's battery support to free his men from their predicament. The garrison held out until the morning of June 12. The resistance was enormous: only 78 of the more than 350 soldiers survived the fighting and were able to advance to Cherbourg. The collapsed casemate on the left was blown up by the Americans after the surrender of the German garrison, but is nevertheless impressive.

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        April 30, 2023

        well worth the visit, despite it being a commercial business for sure

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          Location: Saint-Marcouf, Cherbourg, Manche, France

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