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The Longues-sur-Mer battery (German: Marineküstenbatterie (MKB) Longues-sur-Mer; also designated Widerstandsnest (Wn) 48) [ 1 ] is a World War II German coastal artillery battery approximately 1 km (0.62 mi) north of the village of Longues-sur-Mer in Normandy, France. The battery is sited on a 60 m (200 ft) cliff overlooking the Baie de Seine ...
Pointe du Hoc lies 6.5 km (4.0 mi) west of the center of Omaha Beach. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As part of the Atlantic Wall fortifications, the prominent cliff top location was fortified by the Germans . The battery was initially built in 1943 to house six captured French First World War vintage GPF 155 mm K418(f) guns positioned in open concrete gun pits.
The Maisy Battery is a group of World War II artillery batteries that was constructed in secret by the German Wehrmacht near the French village of Grandcamp-Maisy in Normandy. It formed a part of Germany 's Atlantic Wall coastal fortifications and was the principal position of defence for that area. It was responsible for the defence of the ...
The concrete fortifications also included the deadly German MG-42 heavy machine gun that could shoot 1,200 rounds per minute, more than twice as many rounds as American and British machine guns.
9:50 a.m.: U.S. destroyers move in close to Omaha Beach and begin shelling German targets. 10:15 a.m.: Allied naval shells destroy vital German artillery at Colleville-sur-Mer and Pointe de la Percee.
Omaha Beach was one of five beach landing sectors of the amphibious assault component of Operation Overlord during the Second World War. On June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded German-occupied France with the Normandy landings. [ 1 ] ". Omaha" refers to an 8-kilometer (5 mi) section of the coast of Normandy, France, facing the English Channel, from ...
Heinrich "Hein" Severloh, also known as the Beast of Omaha, (23 June 1923 – 14 January 2006) was a soldier in the German 352nd Infantry Divisionstationed in Normandy in 1944. Severloh became notable for a memoir he published in the German language WN 62 – Erinnerungen an Omaha Beach Normandie, 6. Juni 1944[a], in 2000 and translated into ...
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 (D-Day) with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune). A 1,200-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault ...