Merville Gun Battery

The Merville Gun Battery was a beach front stronghold in Normandy, France, being used as a major aspect of the Germans' Atlantic Wall worked to safeguard mainland Europe from Allied intrusion. It was an especially intensely invigorated position and one of the principal spots to be assaulted by Allied powers amid the Normandy Landings regularly known as D-Day. A British power under the order of Terence Otway prevailing with regards to catching this position, enduring substantial losses.

The Merville Battery was made out of four 6-foot-thick steel-fortified solid firearm casemates, worked by the Todt Organization. Every wa intended to secure First World War-vintage Czech-made 100 mm mountain howitzers, run: 8,400 m. Different structures on the site incorporated a direction dugout, a structure to suit the men, and ammo magazines. Amid a visit on 6 March 1944, to assess the guards, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel requested the developers to work quicker, and by May 1944, the last two casemates were finished.