QUARRY EXPLOITATION HAD A MAJOR INCIDENCE IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ALLIED LANDING ON AUGUST 15, 1944.

The population had to protect themselves during the bombardments, a tunnel cut in the rock above exploitation. For the requisitioned workers, another shelter on the sea side consisted of a tunnel covered with sleepers of the SNCF, in which they could take refuge. Two inhabitants of the village were victims of the bombardments.

From September 1943 to August 15, 1944, the occupation German, within the framework of the operation TODT, requisitions quarries and workers for the construction of the wall of the Atlantic, then the Mediterranean. They install a second crusher to increase the yield of materials transported to the sites to be protected. Workers were in charge of raising the pebbles from the beach to the German crusher.

The deputy director of the quarry company, Mr. Marchand, was also resistant and informant of the allies in London. He had been able to convince the Germans that the beach should not be mined due to the presence of workers working for them. On the morning of August 15, 1944, after an unsuccessful attempt to land on the beach of Fréjus (two boats sunk by floating mines), the allies made the decision to land on the only beach not mined in the region: Dramont beach, called from Landing Beach.

The ports of Marseilles and Toulon having ceased to function, The landing of the troops, of the supplies and military equipment lasted until September, with the help of the neighborhood population.