Bayeux France Monday 26 January 2015

I left Caen and drove in light rain to Bayeux, which is about 25 km northwest of Caen to the area of Longues sur mer where the German artillery battery (152 mm guns and a 120 mm gun with machines guns in support of defences) at Longues-sur-Mer was perfectly located to oppose the landings on 6 June 1944. Its guns were positioned right between Omaha and Gold Beaches. On D-Day, this battery fought a duel with the Allied fleet before it was silenced at sunset.



Today, the site is one of the best preserved in France and the only one where you can still see some of the original cannon, capable, at the time, of firing shells weighing 45 kg at a distance of 22 km. The view from the firing command post, dug into the cliff, offers a vast panorama over the Bay of the Seine.

The photos of the artillery battery and the British Military Cemetery.

 The War Memorial Museum

 A German Tank.

 Another form of landing impeders.

 I was disappointed with the British Cemetery being closed and for me it was drab compared to the military cemetery at Omaha Beach.

 The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Bayeux.

 My car parked and I did not pay. ;)

 Cows in the mud behind the posts. A photo taken with poor timing.

Leaving for Calais in the morning and returning the car, then taking the ferry ship to Dover and the fast train to London; FINALLY!

Nighty night,

D.