[David Dunlop]

I was looking at a recent French Real Estate listing for the sale of the best preserved German Coastal Battery on one of the American Beaches. Built over top of a preexisting Napoleonic Era battery this site was off limits since the end of the war and still has much of it's interior electricals in place, generators and signage. Fascinating photos.

What I could not recognize, however were any noticible searchlight positions. Here in Canada, the coastal gun batteries like Pt. Grey defending the approachs to Vancouver utilized a pair of stand alone seachlight towers as part of the defensive system. Could not see anything llike that at Normandy. That got me wondering if Germany built any at Normandy, were they 'stand alone' like here in Canada, or more fully intergrated into the rest of the defensive structures such that they are not so easily identified today?

David