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Douvres (known as Douvres-la-Déliverande since 1961) is a small town situated between the beaches of the Normandy D-Day landings and Caen 14 miles to the south.
During the Second World War, Douvres was the site of an important German air-detection radar installation. Completed in the autumn of 1943, the station was heavily fortified with bunkers, machine guns, minefields and staffed with over 200 Luftwaffe personnel.
At 11 pm on the night of 5/6 June 1944, the Allies jammed the radar frequencies which blinded the entire German radar network from Cherbourg to Le Havre. By the morning of the 6 June the radar installations at Douvres were rendered inoperative by Allied naval artillery bombardment.
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