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.
Fe06 stands on the edge of the hillside above a heavily wooded slope and is one of the smaller of the sites in the area but features some amazing buildings which can still be visited.
The largest of them is a R610 battle headquarters bunker for a strengthened company, a multi-room bunker with rooms for radio communications, a commander’s room, and a map/planning area, and defensive positions including a high-level Tobruk.
An R630 bunker for a heavy machine gun – still with its armoured plate in place – is hidden within the woodland on the hillside and can be tricky to find but is worth seeking out.
At the top of the hillside on the edge of the woods is an unusual shelter building with steps and a sloped entrance leading to a single room and a dogleg to a long concrete lined trench.
At the end of the trench is a covered machine gun and observation position with three embrasures. If the vegetation in front wasn’t there – as it wouldn’t have been in the 1940s – it would offer an incredible view over the inner port area from its lofty location.