Batterie de Longues-sur-mer
(Longues-sur-mer gun battery)

Office de Tourisme Intercommunal Bayeux Bessin 14400 LONGUES-SUR-MER
Tel. : +33 2 31 21 46 87-02 31 51 28 28
Fax : +33 2 31 51 28 29
Email : longues@bayeux-tourism.com
Site : www.bayeux-bessin-tourism.com

Longues-sur-Mer is the only coastal defence battery on the Landing Beaches to be classed as a “Historical Monument”. A major construction in the Atlantic Wall, this battery had an artillery command post and four bunkers, each with a 150mm gun permanently in place. Located in the middle of the assault sector and on top of a cliff overlooking the Channel, it played a strategic part in the Allied Landings of 6th June 1944.

Today, it is the only battery still to retain its original guns. Located between Arromanches and Omaha Beach, it affords a panoramic view over the Landing Beaches.

Overlord - The assault