N°
72874
updated: 04/08/2019
Fortified Site Hillman - Colleville-Montgomery
14880 Colleville-Montgomery
France
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Normandy Film Commission - locations of Calvados and Manche

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N°
72874
Fortified Site Hillman - Colleville-Montgomery
14880 Colleville-Montgomery
France
Contact the commission

Normandy Film Commission - locations of Calvados and Manche

| +33 (0)2 31 06 23 23

Credits: BAT Basse-Normandie
Caption: 05/2015
Credits: BAT Basse-Normandie
Caption: 05/2015
Credits: BAT Basse-Normandie
Caption: 05/2015
Credits: BAT Basse-Normandie
Caption: 05/2015
Credits: BAT Basse-Normandie
Caption: 05/2015
Location type
Categories
Military base Blockhouse Pillbox Casemate Military edifice Memorial Museum Military site Underground
Environment
Countryside,
City
General presentation
Location History
Located at the southern end of the town to Biéville-Beuville, the site of 24 ha and 18 bunkers and underground structures, built by the Germans between 1942 and 1944, was the command post of the coastal defenses of the Côte de Nacre. Memorial 1st Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment who took this site June 6, 1944
Construction period
1941-1950