WALK INSIDE WW2 GOLD BEACH GUN BUNKER IN NORMANDY Batterie ‘Vera’ at La Marefontaine to the south of Ver-sur-Mer was a small but powerful batterie consisting of four R669 casemates for 10cm guns. The site was built to cover any landing attempts moving inland from the beaches around Ver-sur-Mer, Graye-sur-Mer, and as far east as Courseulles-sur-Mer, in Normandy. The guns here were old, WWI relics and the casemates built for them were hurriedly constructed with Formenstein blocks reinforced with s

EXPLODED SHELL CASE INSIDE NORMANDY GUN CASEMATE Take a look inside this R612 type gun casemate and the destruction caused to the thick concrete and steel construction by a series of internal explosions. This building - located north of the Utah Beach area - once housed a German 7.5cm field gun to cover a large section of beach to the south of the position. Following the sites capture by US forces as they headed north to Cherbourg, the bunker was used to destroy captured German ammunition, and y