The Battle of Merville Gun Battery: Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Otway DSO

Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories

Robert Kirk

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🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Lieutenant Colonel Terence Otway DSO served in the British Army during World War II. In the hours before the Invasion of Normandy, he and the 9th Parachute Battalion were dropped over German lines, and tasked with destroying the Merville Gun Battery. Armed with four 150 mm guns, the Merville Gun Battery was crucial to the German defense. In this interview, Otway describes organizing and leading the attack, and successfully capturing the battery on D-Day, despite having a fraction of the men they were supposed to. Otway became a hero for his leadership that day, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. After his death in 2006, the citizens of Merville-Franceville-Plage erected a bust of Otway in his honor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:14.6	Today, we'll hear from Lieutenant Colonel Terence Otway DSO.
1:18.9	Ottwe served in the British Army during World War II and led the successful attack on a crucial
1:23.8	German gun battery in the hours before the D-Day invasion.
1:47.0	A week after I'd been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in March and taken over the command of the battalion, March 1944.
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