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10 Place de la Plage   14810 Merville Franceville   (France)

Tel.+33.(0)2.31.24.23.39

Fax.+33.(0)2.31.24.88.75

@ : chezmarion@wanadoo.fr


The Merville battery...

Opened all the year


Live This Unique Experience

You will discover one of the important sites of 6th June 1944, an historic site spread over 10 hectares totally preserved since the end of the War.

Several times per hour : A siren will announce the commencement of a show (sounds, lights, odours) recreating vividly what took place here on the night of 5th/6th June 1944 : Intense bombing (109 lancaster bombers at 0030 hours dropping more than 1 000 bombs) of the Battery. The German gunners firing their howitzers on the canal locks at Ouistreham. The assault of the 9th Battalion The Parachute Regiment and the neutralisation of the Battery.


Musée de la Batterie de Merville, Place du 9ème Bataillon 14810 MERVILLE-FRANCEVILLE
Tel/Fax : (33) 02.31.91.47.53
       www.batterie-merville.com        E-Mail : contact@batterie-merville.com