- Batteries de Crisbecq
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The Saint-Marcouf (or Crisbecq) artillery battery played a major role during the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, as it challenged the Allied fleet in front of Utah Beach and offered resistance to the progress of American forces. The museum enables visitors to discover how the defence of the German army along the ‘Atlantic Wall’ was organised. |
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The Crisbecq Battery (sometimes called Marcouf Battery) is well preserved German World War II artillery battery constructed by the Todt Organization near the French village of Saint-Marcouf. It formed a part of Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall coastal fortifications.
Through a surprising complex of trenches and tunnels, discover the 22 refitted period blockhouses of the most powerful artillery battery on the landing beaches: infirmary, kitchen, ammunition bunkers, chambers, anti-aircraft command post... not to mention the famous canons of Saint-Marcouf.
Through a surprising complex of trenches and tunnels, discover the 22 refitted period blockhouses of the most powerful artillery battery on the landing beaches: infirmary, kitchen, ammunition bunkers, chambers, anti-aircraft command post... not to mention the famous canons of Saint-Marcouf.
