Digosville N49 37.819 W001 31.904 Map 1210E
Just outside the village of Digosville near
La Croix Perrinot are four forgotten casemates of the H669 type.
They were built to house captured French guns built almost a generation before
the start of WWII.
They were quite large for field guns having a calibre of 155 mm and a range of
20kms.
The casemates are unique in as much as they have not found an agricultural use
even although they are in fields.
One is just behind the goal posts of a football field.
They do not seem to have played a significant part in the battle of Cherbourg,
many of the troops based here would have possibly abandoned the site and fought
alongside their comrades at Les Caplains.
