This location had the potential to be an important defence of this area of occupied France had the site been finished.
The plan was to build four SK special construction casemates for huge 12.2cm captured Russian guns which would have been capable of trading blows with ships miles out to sea.
Constructed from Formstein blocks, only one of the casemates - the most easterly - was fully built by D-Day with the other three in various stages.
The guns planned for them were hidden behind the site in woodland to protect them as the area received a lot of attention from Allied bombers in the lead up to the June 6 landings.

Casemate 1 - the completed casemate - and casemate 2 now stand as part of housing development on the western edge of Ver-sur-Mer.
Casemate 1 is now a stable for horses while Casemate 2 is used as holiday accommodation and has seen an additional set of steps built from the rear up the left hand flank to a roof patio. Near the top of the step, on the original concrete of the casemate you can see bomb damage to the top of the casemate.
Casemate 3 looks to have been nearing completion with all the walls built but lacks a roof. It is heavily damaged and today is a dumping ground for all sorts of rubbish. It does give you an insight into the stages of construction of a casemate built in this style though. Be careful if visiting this one and avoid going inside.
Casemate 4 is little more than a few courses of blocks at the edge of a farmer's field showing the layout and foundations for just half of the proposed building.

To the west of Casemate 4 was a position for an anti-aircraft gun – one of two at the site - but nothing can be found of this after years of agriculture have churned up the land here.
Directly in front of Caemates 2 and 3 – around 150 metres towards the beach you can find a buried Vf Leitstand observation and fire control post.

The Mont Fleury batterie witnessed an historic moment during D-Day. Landing on Gold Beach with the British 6th Green Howards, Company Sargeant Major Stanley Hollis would earn the only Victoria Cross of D-Day for his actions around the batterie and later as they advanced to the village of Crepon.

His citation in the London Gazette read as follows:
“In Normandy on 6th June 1944, during the assault on the beaches and the Mont Fleury Battery, C.S.M. Hollis's Company Commander noticed that two of the pillboxes had been by-passed and went with C.S.M. Hollis to see that they were clear. When they were 20 yards from the pillbox, a machine-gun opened fire from the slit and C.S.M. Hollis instantly rushed straight at the pillbox, firing his Sten gun. He jumped on top of the pillbox, re-charged his magazine, threw a grenade in through the door and fired his Sten gun into it, killing two Germans and taking the remainder prisoner. He then cleared several Germans from a neighbouring trench. By his action, he undoubtedly saved his Company from being fired on heavily from the rear and enabled them to open the main beach exit.
Later the same day, in the village of Crepon, the Company encountered a field gun and crew armed with Spandaus at 100 yards range. C.S.M. Hollis was put in command of a party to cover an attack on the gun, but the movement was held up. Seeing this, C.S.M. Hollis pushed right forward to engage the gun with a PIAT from a house at 50 yards range. He was observed by a sniper who fired and grazed his right cheek, and at the same moment the gun swung round and fired into the house. To avoid the fallen masonry C.S.M. Hollis moved his party to an alternative position. Two of the enemy gun crew had by this time been killed and the gun was destroyed shortly afterwards. He later found that two of his men had stayed behind in the house and immediately volunteered to get them out. In full view of the enemy who were continually firing at him, he went forward alone using a Bren gun to distract their attention from the other men. Under cover of his diversion, the two men were able to get back.
Wherever fighting was heaviest, C.S.M. Hollis appeared and in the course of a magnificent day's work, he displayed the utmost gallantry and on two separate occasions his courage and initiative prevented the enemy from holding up the advance at critical stages. It was largely through his heroism and resource that the Company's objectives were gained and casualties were not heavier, and by his own bravery he saved the lives of many of his men.”

One of those buildings attacked by Hollis was actually a small public shelter for a narrow gauge railway line which ran along the coast to from Arromanches to Courseulles in the east. Today it stands as a memorial to Hollis and the Green Howards.
In Crepon you can find a statue of Hollis which pays tribute to him and his colleagues.

Stp35a Batterie Mont Fleury can be seen from the car park for the British Normandy Memorial which stands on the same hillside to the west of this batterie.