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Merville Gun Battery
The Merville Gun Battery was a coastal fortification in Normandy, France, in use as part of the Nazis' Atlantic Wall built 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.
==Defences==
The Merville Battery was composed of four steel-reinforced concrete gun casemates, built by the Todt Organisation. Each was designed to protect First World War-vintage Czech-made leFH 14/19(t) 100 mm (3.93-inch) mountain howitzers,〔Zaloga and Johnson 2005, p. 29〕 range: 8,400 m.
Other buildings on the site included a command bunker, a building to accommodate the men, and ammunition magazines. During a visit on 6 March 1944, to inspect the defences, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered the builders to work faster, and by May 1944, the last two casemates were completed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Merville Battery )〕
The battery was defended by a 20 mm anti-aircraft gun and several machine guns in 15 gun positions, all enclosed in an area surrounded by two barbed wire obstacles thick by high,〔Ford, p.41〕 which also acted as the exterior border for a minefield. Another obstacle was an anti-tank ditch covering any approach from the nearby coast.〔Gregory 1979, p. 108〕
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