Le blockhaus Wn 33

At the foot of the 35m-high Ver-sur-Mer plateau, near the hamlet of La Rivière, the Germans had established a powerful 88mm casemate gun flanking the beach. The defense of this sector was entrusted to the 7th Company of the 736th German Grenadier Regiment. This Wn 33 was completed with a 50mm gun, two machine-gun positions, a machine-gun position and two mortar emplacements. Transformed into a nautical circle, the Wn33 blockhouse and its 88mm gun kept the British at bay as they landed on the King sector of Gold Beach. On top of a former Wn33 concrete slide, a first-aid post was built after the war to monitor the beach at Ver-sur-Mer. Today, plaques remind passers-by of the exploits of the men of the 7th Green Howard Battalion (69th Infantry Brigade), who captured Wn 33 before liberating Ver-sur-Mer from the Germans on June 6, 1944.