Located on the high cliffs to the east of Pointe du Hoc on the western edge of the Omaha Beach landing sector you can find the remains of Stp74 and Stp74a, the latter of which was an important radar station during WW2.
Not much is left to be seen at Stp74 – a small observation post, a water store, and two small shelters overgrown and teetering on the edge of the cliffs with a single Tobruk inland at the corner of agricultural fields.
The crumbling cliffs will also take their toll on Stp74a with a Tobruk and small shelter now close to the edge. Further inland there are still concrete remains to be seen with a line of three shelter buildings and a V229 type base for a Wurzburg Riese radar dish.

Two of the shelters are buried while the largest of the three can still be seen – this is a huge building of around 20metres in length and can be seen through the gaps in heavy vegetation but not accessed inside safely. Strangely, unlike many bunkers, it is of brick and stone construction with several windows, and an apex roof, suggesting it was more of an office building rather than protective bunker.

The V229 is the only building which points to the original use of the site, once a massive complex of buildings, barracks, defensive Tobruks, four 20mm anti-aircraft gun positions, an emplacement for a 60cm searchlight, and four radars.
Two giant Wurzburg radars at the rear of the site flanked a pole-mounted FuMG 401 type Freya radar at the centre with a FuMO2 Coastwatcher naval detection radar situated front and centre of the site near to the cliff-edge.
Stp74a was all contained within the protection of an extensive minefield with barbed wire defences surrounding it too.

Following the D-Day landings and the capture of this site, the fields inland of the radar site were used by the 9th USAAF as a post-invasion airfield - Landing ground ‘A1’ - to support the breakout from the Normandy beaches. There is a small memorial on the track from the main D514 road to the site.
Please be aware, this is agricultural land and can only be accessed with permission.