The beautiful port town of Fecamp is a popular holiday spot and for concrete tourists there's a lot to see including over a dozen gun casemates spread across the hillsides, a stack of casemates on the cliff edge, and a huge radar facility.
Fecamp was split into around a dozen different strongpoints with bunkers built to protect the town, on the edge of the hill to cover the port area, and on the cliffs at the top of Cap Fagnet where a mixture of defensive structures and radar bunkers still remain.
After the fortress ports of Le Havre and Dieppe, Fecamp was the third most fortified port in this area of Normandy. Fecamp was occupied between June 9, 1940, and September 2, 1944.
On the cliffs south west of the main town you can find bunker site designation Fe013 – one of four sites which covered this area.
Fe013 isn’t easily accessible due to agricultural fields, the proximity to the cliff edge, and the fact that some of the buildings are heavily overgrown.
The most prominent is the R667 casemate which juts out of the cliff face near to the end of the promenade nearest the casino car park. This, along with a R612 casemate above it on the higher cliff, provided heavy weapon cover along the beach back towards the port. Between them is a large personnel shelter, which is no longer accessible due to its dangerous location.
At the top of the cliff, in an agricultural field, are partially buried shelters of various sizes – two long ‘unterstands’, a R621 bunker, a small garage, and an observation post – the latter which are currently completely buried under vegetation.