La Pernelle I battery
 
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La Pernelle I battery
 


The range-finding post.

    Installed in casemates, the six 105-mm guns of the Pernelle I battery pointed northwards, in the direction of Barfleur. They were therefore entirely useless when the American troops landed on Utah Beach.

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