Launch site for V-1 flying bombs at Brécourt
Ruins · France
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 49.652, -1.670
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: Nazi Germany bunker for launching for V-1 flying bombs in Équeurdreville-Hainneville near Cherbourg, France
History
Brécourt was a Nazi Germany V-1 launching pad in Équeurdreville-Hainneville near Cherbourg, in Manche of Normandy, northern France. It was by far the largest V-1 launch complex ever built by the Luftwaffe, and the only one to feature two launching pads from the outset: one protected, the other underground. It was also the only large site to have been successively assigned to two different V-weapons: from July to December 1943 to the V-2 rocket, and from January 1944 to the V-1 flying bomb.