Looking Back on Concrete and Stone
Battle of the Atlantic Memorial Museum
The Battle of the Atlantic Memorial located in Camaret-sur-Mer on the site of Fort Kerbonn, in a former blockhouse dating from the Second World War, recalls in its simplicity that during the last war more than 45,000 sailors of the commerce of all nations disappeared with their 5,125 ships.
He links in the same thought these allied sailors and the 30,000 sailors of the Kriegsmarine sunk with their 759 submarines.
This Memorial tells the visitor the history of the great battle and recalls the action within it by the sailors of Free France.
Kerbonn's many fortifications form part of the defences of the goulet de Brest. The first fortification on the site is a mortar battery dating to 1889-1891, with its underground magazine. The Fort de Kerbonn is a side battery, designed to fire on ships in the roadstead of Brest. Another French battery was built in 1932, and between 1942 and 1944 the Germans built four casemates on the site to house French 164mm guns, 6 air-raid shelters, one fire-direction post and three anti-aircraft-gun positions. One of these German casemates now houses a memorial to the Battle of the Atlantic.
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Looking Back on Concrete and Stone
Battle of the Atlantic Memorial Museum
The Battle of the Atlantic Memorial located in Camaret-sur-Mer on the site of Fort Kerbonn, in a former blockhouse dating from the Second World War, recalls in its simplicity that during the last war more than 45,000 sailors of the commerce of all nations disappeared with their 5,125 ships.
He links in the same thought these allied sailors and the 30,000 sailors of the Kriegsmarine sunk with their 759 submarines.
This Memorial tells the visitor the history of the great battle and recalls the action within it by the sailors of Free France.
Kerbonn's many fortifications form part of the defences of the goulet de Brest. The first fortification on the site is a mortar battery dating to 1889-1891, with its underground magazine. The Fort de Kerbonn is a side battery, designed to fire on ships in the roadstead of Brest. Another French battery was built in 1932, and between 1942 and 1944 the Germans built four casemates on the site to house French 164mm guns, 6 air-raid shelters, one fire-direction post and three anti-aircraft-gun positions. One of these German casemates now houses a memorial to the Battle of the Atlantic.
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