Located on a main road junction east of the village of Cricqueboeuf between Trouville and Honfleur are two bunkers which formed the small site designated Trou07.
Both are difficult to spot, and neither can be accessed without permission as they stand within the grounds of residential properties.
The larger of the two buildings is a rare M159 bunker – a Kriegsmarine building labelled as a first aid ‘dressing station’ but featured an operating theatre, doctor’s room, and rooms for heating and ventilation equipment.
Only nine of this type of building were ever built, five of them in the area containing northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, the other four on the west coast of France down to the border with Spain.
They used a lot of material too, with around 1,000 cubic metres of steel-reinforced concrete used in its construction – the part of the building you can see from the road belies its overall size!
At the point of the fork in the road, you can catch a glimpse of a Bf66 bunker, a building for a 5cm KwK anti-tank gun which would have been located here to halt any Allied progress along this main road between the two towns.