Hillman Fortress

The Hillman Fortress was a German dugout complex and direction post worked amid the Second World War and situated close Colleville-Montgomery in France. The shelter complex, assigned as Hill 61 and codenamed Hillman by the British, was assaulted on 6 June 1944 by the Suffolk Regiment and the fortification at long last surrendered the next morning. The deferral in taking the dugout complex has been refered to as an explanation behind the Allies not finishing their real D-Day goal of taking Caen.

The fortifications are presently open as an exhibition hall and kept running by neighborhood volunteers. In 1942, towards the southern piece of Colleville-Sur-Orne, the Organization Todt assembled a 24-hectare dugout complex comprising of 18 shelters including two H608 direction post fortifications and a H605 fortification for mounted guns firearms. It was assigned at Widerstandsnest 17 by the Germans and filled in as central station of the 736th Grenadier Regiment.