Camperlocatie in Merville-Franceville-Plage

Merville-Franceville-Plage / 0.9 km

Merville-Franceville-Plage is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. (...) (mehr)

Orne (river) / 1.3 km

The Orne (Ptolemeus Olina) is a river in Normandy, within northwestern France.Atlas des Routes de France, Solar Press: Donnees IGN (2007) It discharges into the English Channel at the port of Ouistreham. Its source is in Aunou-sur-Orne, east of Sées. Its main tributaries are the Odon and the Rouvre (...) (mehr)

Battle of Merville Gun Battery / 1.9 km

The Battle of Merville Gun Battery occurred on 6 June 1944, as part of Operation Tonga, part of the Normandy landings, during the Second World War. Allied intelligence believed the Merville Gun Battery was composed of heavy-calibre guns that could threaten the British landings at Sword Beach, only (...) (mehr)

Terence Otway / 1.9 km

Lieutenant Colonel Terence Brandram Hastings Otway DSO, (15 June 1914 – 23 July 2006) was an officer in the British Army, best known for his role as commander of the paratroop assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day. (...) (mehr)

Merville Gun Battery / 1.9 km

The Merville Gun Battery was a coastal fortification in Normandy, France, in use as part of the Germans' 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 (...) (mehr)