Updates

This is StP St Firmin Bihen H.K.B. of the AOK 15 HKAR 7 Batterie which held 17 cm guns. Covering the Baie de Somme this 688 type casemate bunker now sits in a flooded sandpit. We took this photograph on our latest visit to France in 2022 and will be…

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Videos

This section will feature YouTube videos by experts in the field of the Atlantikwall and World War II. We feature two of our favourite playlists, the first one is by Klaas Meijer. Klaas lives in the Netherlands and is the Spokesman for the Netherlands Ministry of Defence, he is also…

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Books on Bunkers

Over the years I have collected a great number of books and reference material on the Atlantikwall, D-Day, the units that covered individual regions, defensive strong points and general World War Two reading.Here are some of the best books in my collection worth checking out:   The Architecture of War…

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Links

Though this web site is designed to provide a wealth of information on traveling throughout France to visit the many wonderful WWII museums and to visit the remains of the Atlantikwall we are by no means experts on any one subject. There are many web sites out there that will…

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Staging & Dev

test test Nothing to see here folks, this is our staging and development test area for new sections of the site where we test coding and styles etc. Excuse the mess, we are trying div tag coding styles Continuity in coding grey divs Continuity in coding green divs Looking at…

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