Hi 75mirabelle, thankyou for your service in Korea. My Father was drafted during that war and was stationed in Alsaka. I'm happy and surprised by how many hits this video has. I'm so glad I had the chance to visit such hallowed ground. It's such a powerful place. I'll never forget walking through row after row of graves, a 22 year old from CA, a 25 year old from NY, an 19 year old from PA. These brave young men laid down their lives, these brave young men saved the world.
@swampyrv
14 жыл бұрын
Longues sur Mer Battery, 4 casemates with cannon, and a forward observation post on the cliff edge. There are Tobruk machine guns posts here too further down the coast path near the observation post. thnx for posting
@75mirabelle
13 жыл бұрын
I was there 6 months ago....This is all genuine stuff. Thank you for posting this video. You are trying to inform people and some have the nerve to say it's not a bunker !.......as if you invented it !!! I was in France in 44 and I know what a german bunker looks like.....!!!!! ahhhhhh
@Sean1991Guitar
14 жыл бұрын
Interesting video, Hope to go there sometime in the future
@GodOfWar221
13 жыл бұрын
@sebastiaan0sailorman I visited the site where he was, it was a German Battery that was a few miles up the coastline from the invasion beaches themselves. On the bunkers themselves you can still see craters from where the shells from the cruisers out in the channel had made direct hits. This particular battery, I forget its name exactly, took several days to be knocked out. Hope this helps!
@GodOfWar221
13 жыл бұрын
@sebastiaan0sailorman I visited the site where he was, it was a German Battery that was a few miles up the coastline from the invasion beaches themselves. The bunkers themselves are still marked with the craters of artillery that was lobbed from the ships that sat offshore, hope this helps
@rdallas81
13 жыл бұрын
Cool vid.......like the stats of the gun...number of ships...etc.
@75mirabelle
13 жыл бұрын
Hi !....More people of this younger generation should visit these places and try to feel what it must have been to walk into a wall of bullets.....I am a Korean vet (52-53) but in 44 I was a young 15 yrs.. old boy in France...by the Atlantic Wall.....with minefields and bunkers left and right !!!! I am preparing a 6 minute video of my 2010 trip there for you and I will post it as soon as it is ready, We have walked the same paths...
@lightn56
12 жыл бұрын
Visited the bunker complex at Longueville about 10 years ago I hear that they've stopped access to the control bunker at the cliff edge due to erosion of the cliff.That's a great pity as i was very impressed with it at the time. Despite all the bombs and shells the concrete was barely shipped. The Germans certainly built things to last....
@swizerland4ever1
12 жыл бұрын
to get details on google: Batterie de Longues sur Mer seven years ago i was over there. it was verry interresting to know that the fireleading bunker was used in the D-day movie: the scene with the sentinel who is calling " they are comming " was filmed in this bunker.
@carbone2001
13 жыл бұрын
My hero is my great grandpa he served in WWII he became a sergeant but some were he got shot up by a sniper
@SweetbriarRE
11 жыл бұрын
12 mile range for the bunker gun in 1944? How did they set the range (distance) or aim for the target?
@jonaspete
11 жыл бұрын
Very honarable
@75mirabelle
12 жыл бұрын
Hi, Hi dgallacelt, I just finished and posted my first KZitem video, for you to see as we have walked along just about the same paths......I want to go again and get a lot more footage. Two full days would be nice, the weather and the tide should be taken in consideration. In full season would be quite crowded, spring and fall would be a better choice.
@blackboxskater12
14 жыл бұрын
lucky i want to go there
@happybonzo
13 жыл бұрын
This is at Longue sur Mer
@Ruffpuppys
15 жыл бұрын
he said the guide told him all about it
@dgallacelt
15 жыл бұрын
Yes I said, "The guide told me all about it". What is your point? I know the history of D-Day. I didn't know exact distances the guns shot from those bunkers...The guide told me all about it.
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