The Pinède du Gouron’s Blockhouse network

These blockhouses are part of a strong network of fortifications, built in 43 by Italian troops, then taken over and densified by the German occupiers. They closed the bay of Bormes, with the eastern end, Villa Bourguet, at the end of the port of Le Lavandou. Between the two, and in the center of the beach, have been built a huge blockhouse with cannon, an anti-tank trench excavated in the dunes, minefields, barbed wire and concrete pyramids as underwater obstacles, some of which are trapped by Tellermine of contact. After being shot by destroyers positioned offshore, the defenders will surrender without a fight to the passage of the 3rd commando of Africa.