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
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
Trench de Caen a la Mer is a short waterway in the division of Calvados, France, interfacing the Port of Caen, in the city of Caen, downstream to the town of Ouistreham and the English Channel. Running from north-east to
Troarn Abbey was a Benedictine nunnery in the French town, presently in the Calvados bureau of Lower Normandy. It was committed to Martin of Tours and established by Roger I of Montgomery utilizing twelve priests from Fecamp Abbey in 1022,
Sword, normally known as Sword Beach, was the code name given to one of the five principle landing zones along the Normandy coast amid the underlying strike stage, Operation Neptune, of Operation Overlord, the Allied intrusion of German-involved France that