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Mont-Canisy Batteries, Deauville
Deauville›Calvados›Normandy›Northern France›France
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About Mont-Canisy Batteries
The Mont-Canisy Batteries are a preserved German WWII artillery fortification located 110 meters above sea level near Bénerville-sur-Mer. Built between 1941-1944 as part of the Atlantic Wall, this was the most important artillery support point between Cherbourg and Le Havre, designed to protect the Bay of Seine and Le Havre port. The site features multiple concrete casemates, gun emplacements for 155mm cannons, Tobruk defensive positions, and a unique 250-meter underground network with 25 barracks cells and ammunition storage rooms at 15 meters depth - the only such underground complex on over 150km of Normandy coastline.
The site has served military purposes across three different eras: it was a French anti-submarine defense post during WWI (1917-1918), then the French Navy installed a battery with four 138mm cannons before WWII (1935-1940), and finally the Germans built the Atlantic Wall fortifications (1941-1944). The French had neutralized their own cannons before the German occupation.
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