Merville Gun Battery

Merville Gun Battery
Part of Atlantic Wall
Normandy, France
Largest casemate of the Merville Battery today
Type	Artillery battery
Site information
Owner	Nazi Germany 1942–44  France 1944–present
Open to the public	Yes
Condition	Several casemates and trench system
Site history
Built	World War II
Built by	Organisation Todt
In use	1942-1944
Materials	Concrete, steel, barbed wire
Battles/wars	Normandy landings, Operation Tonga
Garrison information
Garrison	Wehrmacht

The Merville Gun Battery is a decommissioned coastal fortification in Normandy, France, which was built as part of the Germans' Atlantic Wall to defend continental Europe from Allied invasion. It was a particularly heavily fortified position and one of the first places to be attacked by Allied forces during the Normandy Landings commonly known as D-Day. A British force under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Terence Otway succeeded in capturing this position, suffering heavy casualties.