Brécourt
Brécourt was a Nazi Germany bunker in Équeurdreville-Hainneville near Cherbourg, in Manche of Normandy, northern France.History
Olkeller Cherbourg, Brécourt's structure is located at the foot of a hillside on which the French Navy had eight underground galleries dug for the storage of fuel oil in the 1930s.
These installations were reused by the German army to store V-2 rockets. Early in 1944, the facility was converted to a V-1 flying bomb launch facility.
The ramp consisted of two parallel reinforced concrete walls, long, with a notch on the inside faces giving the slope of the ramp, which was oriented towards the port of Bristol.
The Brécourt military installation was virtually undetectable by aerial observation. However, the 387th Bombardment Group records indicate Operation Crossbow bombing in Manche of a "Martinvast V-1 site" on 11 November 1943, which may have been Brécourt.
The launch pad was not fully completed when the Allies captured Brécourt a few days before July 4, 1944. both Dwight Eisenhower and Winston Churchill subsequently visited the facility.
The bunker was declared a French protected monument on 1 December 1996.
