Atlantic Wall - Longues-sur-Mer, Normandy, France

Atlantic Wall - Longues-sur-Mer, Normandy, France

The Longues-sur-mer battery is a battery of four 152mm guns

Situated between Omaha beach (US sector) and Gold beach (British sector) this battery played a role during D-Day as it was capable of firing at the invasion ships. The whole complex at Longueville consists of the four guns as well as a command bunker, several machine gun emplacements and an observation bunker overlooking the sea (which can be seen in the 1960 move "The Longest Day").

On the night before the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944, the battery was subject to heavy bombing from allied air forces. Some 1500 tons of bombs were dropped bust most hit the small town of Longueville rather then the guns though it did destroy the communication lines between the commanc centre and the guns. The bombing was followed from 0537hrs on the morning of the landings by bombardment from the French cruiser Georges Leygues as well as the U.S. battleship Arkansas. The battery itself opened fire at 0605hrs and fired a total of 170 shots throughout the day, forcing the flagship HMS Bulolo to retreat to safer water without doing any real damage .

Three of the four guns were eventually disabled by British cruisers Ajax and Argonaut, though a single gun continued to operate intermittently until 1900hrs that evening.

The photo was tonemapped using three differently exposed (handheld) shots with a Fuji X-T3 and Fujinon 16mm f/1.4 lens in september 2019.

See my other Omaha beach photo's for more viewpoints, panorama shots and notes on the fighting

Here's a set of photo's made on Pointe du Hoc

Here's a set of photo's with notes of Utah Beach and the Cotentin penisula with the Airborne sectors.">

These are my photo's and notes of the British and Canadian sectors: Gold, Juno and Sword.

Taken in: France / Normandy / Arrondissement de Bayeux / Longues-sur-Mer (show map)

Taken on: September 2, 2019

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Camera: Fujifilm X-T3, f/8.0, 1/2200 sec, 16mm (=24mm), ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm X-T3
Lens:	XF16mmF1.4 R WR
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	1/2200 sec
Focal Length:	16mm (35mm equivalent: 24mm)
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto bracket
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 9.2 (Windows)
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