Just a few yards below is a second R669 casemate for a field gun. Inside both you can see deep markings in the concrete walls.

Wn62 Colleville-sur-Mer, (Omaha Beach) R669 casemate. Details. An R669 casemate built by the Bless Company a local French builder and finished in April 1944. An R669's was designed to take a 7.5mm Field Howitzer gun. Access for the gun should be via the rear door but here both casemates have had rear blast walls fitted.

Strongpoint located at Colleville-sur mer. It remains a sublime beach and conviction... That which the humiliation of a people is to be banished.

The Wn 62 is located to the west of the plateau dominating the valley of the Revolution, near Colleville-sur-Mer. It is one of three support posts in the village of Colleville, opposite Omaha Beach. It consists of two casemates H669 and one casemate H667. It is armed by 25 soldiers of the 3 Kompanie (726. Infanterie-Regiment, 716.

2020年2月1日 · 1944年6月6日，盟军诺曼底登陆那一天，法国奥马哈海滩德军中的20岁德军士兵海恩·塞弗罗创造了一项惊人纪录：在他藏身的wn62碉堡前，共有4184名美国士兵中弹倒下，而其中至少一半死亡人数都应该由塞弗罗一人的机关枪来负责。

2020年9月25日 · 1944年6月的诺曼底登陆战中，法国奥马哈海滩的一个代号WN62德军碉堡竟让4184名美国士兵中弹倒在血泊中，更令人不可思议的是有一半士兵死于一个人之手。 他就是20岁德军士兵海恩·塞弗罗，在二战结束后，他被人称做“奥马哈海滩之兽”。 可在人生的暮年却是对战争无比的悔恨！ 时间回到1944年6月6日清晨，盟军在奥马哈海滩登陆。 这位来自德国普通百姓的海恩·塞弗罗当时是WN62碉堡的机枪手。 面对潮水般的盟军登陆艇逼近奥马哈海滩，盟军士兵 …

Heinrich "Hein" Severloh, also known as the Beast of Omaha, (23 June 1923 – 14 January 2006) was a soldier in the German 352nd Infantry Division stationed in Normandy in 1944. Severloh became notable for a memoir he published in the German language WN 62 – Erinnerungen an Omaha Beach Normandie, 6.

2020年3月7日 · 1944年6月6日，盟军诺曼底登陆那一天，法国奥马哈海滩德军中的20岁德军士兵海恩·塞弗罗创造了一项惊人纪录：在他藏身的wn62碉堡前，共有4184名美国士兵中弹倒下，而其中至少一半死亡人数都应该由塞弗…

Casemate du mur de l’Atlantique de l’appui feu Wn 62. http://www.atlantikwall.co.uk/atlantikwall/fn_b_wn62_omaha.php