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.
Fe05 stands on the edge of the hillside above a heavily wooded slope and is one of the smaller of the sites in the area, featuring just one remaining building – a Vf Unterstand shelter for troops.
It is a single-roomed building with a concrete covered entrance from the lower hillside and a set of steps from the higher side of the hillside. Inside the room – which is normally flooded – you can see the entrance to an escape shaft and several loopholes overlooking the port below, although the larger of them was likely to have been for a chimney.
Below this structure on the heavily-wooded hillside you can find the entrances to a huge underground hospital complex – check out our in-depth guide on this website to that amazing site.