Small sandy beach that served as career in marine ballast for their boat to the benning of this century, Pampelonne was the scene of the landing in Provence in August 1944.

At the landing of the Allied Forces on 15 August 1944, vines, shrubs, hedges of reeds were destroyed by bulldozers in order to develop in the parcel shelf (southern part) an airfield to an affair with bases in Corsica an North Africa.