LE GRAND BUNKER
The Grand Bunker of the former Shooting Command and Management Station has been completely renovated to house a museum devoted entirely to the Atlantic Wall in Normandy. After having belonged to the Navy, the founders wanted this unique blockhouse to recover its original appearance.
A remarkable construction, since it is a Sonderkonstruktion (to which we will devote a paragraph below), all rooms were remodeled in a remarkable way, with a very abundant and authentic material. The founders took full advantage of this 17-meter high construction to re-situate and present the essential functions that characterized the life of the defensive positions of the Atlantic Wall in the D-Day Landing.
The founders of the Museum wished to offer to visit the 5 levels of this blockhouse in which was installed the nerve center of the command of the defenses of the estuary of the Orne, in order to reconstitute and restore the atmosphere which could reign in this one. on the eve of the D-Day!
It should be noted that the Museum of the Atlantic Wall, the Grand Bunker, is the last visible vestige of what was the most powerful coastal battery in the area, the latter having been defined as a defense zone to be fortified primarily by the German high command.
The Grand Bunker Museum therefore allows us by its high presence not to forget that a powerful device of coastal defenses was deployed to Riva-Bella. In addition it invites us to discover this last vestige of the interior by restoring it in its first destination. The Grand Bunker Museum becomes a real memory journey …
A remarkable construction, since it is a Sonderkonstruktion (to which we will devote a paragraph below), all rooms were remodeled in a remarkable way, with a very abundant and authentic material. The founders took full advantage of this 17-meter high construction to re-situate and present the essential functions that characterized the life of the defensive positions of the Atlantic Wall in the D-Day Landing.
The founders of the Museum wished to offer to visit the 5 levels of this blockhouse in which was installed the nerve center of the command of the defenses of the estuary of the Orne, in order to reconstitute and restore the atmosphere which could reign in this one. on the eve of the D-Day!
It should be noted that the Museum of the Atlantic Wall, the Grand Bunker, is the last visible vestige of what was the most powerful coastal battery in the area, the latter having been defined as a defense zone to be fortified primarily by the German high command.
The Grand Bunker Museum therefore allows us by its high presence not to forget that a powerful device of coastal defenses was deployed to Riva-Bella. In addition it invites us to discover this last vestige of the interior by restoring it in its first destination. The Grand Bunker Museum becomes a real memory journey …
All the Atlantic Wall in an authentic SonderKonstruktion
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MUSSE NO.4 COMMANDO
This is a fairly tiny museum that is dedicated to the small band of Free French Commandos that landed on Sword Beach on D-Day. Trained at Achnacarry in Scotland, on D-Day they were attached to Lord Lovat's Special Service Brigade (No.4 Commando) of No.10 Inter-Allied Commando. The activities of this small band of men if often under-represented in most other museums. Under the command of the recently promoted capitaine de corvette Philippe Kieffer, 177 men of 1st French Marine Rifles Battalion landed near Hermanville-sur-Mer the beach to the west of Ouistreham.
As immortalised in the film "The Longest Day", the initial objective of the "Kieffer Commando" on the morning of D-Day was the Riva Bella Casino. By the evening of 6th June, 1st Special Service Brigade, including No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando elements had crossed the River Orne and were dug in guarding the left flank of the 6th Airborne Division. By the end of the Battle of Normandy in August, only 40 out of the original 177 men remained. They were eventually pulled off the line and embarked for England on 7th September. A few days later, back in England at Petworth Camp on Lord Lekonfield's Estate, they were granted their first leave since before D-Day.
The museum itself loses one star immediately for not allowing photography inside. However, despite the singular subject matter it has some very interesting contents. There is a short film shown in different languages and a number of glass displays with uniformed mannequins with a variety of equipment. However, although some labels have translations, not all do. Some labels also obscure the item they are describing. On the walls are photographs, documents, patches, badges and flag. It will not take long to visit the museum, but what there is here is interesting and not often covered in much detail at the other Normandy museums.
Whilst in the area it's worth taking a short walk towards the beach and west a few hundred metres to the Monument Francais Libres, dedicated to the French Commandos killed in Operation Overlord. In the other direction from the museum is the Musée du Mur de l'Atlantique.
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