On D+ 5, a team of British engineers arrived to lay and camouflage, west of the Longues battery, under-water telephone cables and the mobile equipment needed to ensure communications with the Allied HQ in Normandy and SHAEF headquarters in England. This photograph shows two British engineers, Cotes and Walford, sat posing on casemate #2 Gun.
Today, although the craters have been filled in and the mines have been removed, the vegetation has grown back and the visitor to Longues can fully enjoy the view, the presence of the enormous case mates and the control bunker, the metalled road under the tarmac and the roofs of the magazines and shelters emerging from the earth are there to remind us that this is a true place of remembrance of the Second World War.
Taken from the road besides the Control Bunker looking down towards Arromanches where you can see the Mulberry harbour clearly from this picture.
This is the View looking left from standing on the Control Bunker
