Normandy 1944
Merville Battery
Battlefield · British Airborne
The story
The 9th Parachute Battalion attacked this battery despite severe dispersal and lost equipment — the direct parallel to Brécourt. Preserved casemates let you read it from the defender's side.
What to look for
End inside the defensive landscape and compare with Brécourt on Day 1.
Plan your visit
- Open
- 15 Mar–30 Sep 09:30–20:30 (last entry 18:30); 1 Oct–15 Nov 10:00–18:30 (last entry 17:00)
- Price
- €9.50 adults; €6 ages 6–15; under-6s free
- Parking
- Free car park
- Access
- Most of the site accessible to people with limited mobility
Checked September 2026 from official sources: batterie-merville.com, normandie-destination-dexcellence.com. Things change, so check before you travel.
Nearby sites
- Sword Beach — Ouistreham · 5 km
- Ranville War Cemetery · 6 km
- Pegasus Bridge / Memorial Pegasus · 6 km
- Hillman fortress — Colleville-Montgomery · 8 km
- Caen Memorial Museum · 16 km
- Bény-sur-Mer Canadian Cemetery · 19 km
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Easy Company: Normandy
A free field guide for your phone: the route, the maps and the stories built in, even with no signal. The places of the Normandy campaign of June–July 1944, following Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry, 101st Airborne, from the night drop and Brécourt Manor to Utah Beach and Carentan, with Omaha, Pointe du Hoc, the British and Canadian beaches and the best museums along the way.
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