France Normandy

Inside an Atlantic Wall bunker at Pointe du Hoc

2017
11/25
NIKON D810, 24.0-120.0 mm f/4.0 @ f/6.3 1/40, ISO 64
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The view through the embrasure of a German bunker at Pointe du Hoc, with barbed wire still present. From this position German soldiers controlled the English Channel, unaware that on June 6, 1944, American Rangers would scale the cliffs to capture this strategic position.

Pointe du Hoc bunker, Atlantic Wall, D-Day, embrasure, Normandy barbed wire