About twenty German bunkers, remnants of the Second World War, are still visible around the Utah Beach Museum on the northeast coast of Cotentin. They illustrate the German defense system deployed in 1944 and help to understand the operations of the Normandy landings. Utah Beach had fewer German fortifications than other beaches used for the landing. The local defense was, indeed, largely based on the isolation of the coastal strip from the interior of the country by the flooded areas of the hinterland marshes integrated into the estuary complex of the Baie des Veys.