Brécourt

For the French actor and the World War II attack, see fr:Brécourt and Brécourt Manor Assault.

For the French courtesan, see Jeanne Brécourt.

See also: V-1 flying bomb (facilities)

Brécourt aliases: Équeurdreville, Martinvast
Part of Nazi Germany
Équeurdreville-Hainneville, in Manche, France
300px Dwight Eisenhower visiting the Brécourt V-1 flying bomb facility near Cherbourg
Coordinates
Type	bunker
Site history
Built	1932-1944
In use	never used
Materials	concrete
Battles/wars	Operation Crossbow
Events	started 1932 bombed November 11, 1943 captured July, 1944

Brécourt was a Nazi Germany bunker started inside an underground French Naval oil storage facility. On July 7, 1943, the site was ordered to be completed as a V-2 rocket launch facility. Early in 1944, the facility was converted to a V-1 flying bomb launch facility and subsequently completed.

The military installation was virtually undetectable by aerial observation, although the 387th Bombardment Group records indicate Operation Crossbow bombing of the "Martinvast V-1 site" on November 11, 1943. The Allies captured the site a few days before July 4, 1944, and both Dwight Eisenhower and Winston Churchill subsequently visited the facility – the latter reportedly dropping an apple he was eating in astonishment of the massive facility.

Notes

^1 The location for the photo of Eisenhower on the stairs has also been identified as Söttevast.

External links

• Picture from Brécourt today