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Grandcamp-Maisy.
AOK 7, KVA H2, KV.Gr. Bayeux, KVU Gr. Vire, Stp. Grandcamp, H.K.B. Les Perrugues (Maisy Battery), Stp. 83.

When you drive over the D514 in the direction of Osmanville, just outside the village of Grandcamp-Maisy,, you have to turn right into the Route de Perregues. The signs bring you to the museum.

This battery was a long time "out of sight" for the world because it was almost completely covered with earth. Therefore the battery was also "forgotten" by the historians and bunker interested people. Untill Gary Stern, a English man, got sight on the location and started to purchase some of the location to develop it into a museum. Today the location is for about 70% excavated and still some parts have to be searched. There is the intention to build a museum with the history of the battery and the history of the American Rangers who fought here during the landings in 1944 and captured the battery as well.
Many questions have been raised already and many still will come on what has happened with the Maisy Battery and why it was so long "of the radar" in all the articles, books and information about the Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944.

Types:

1x 502 Twin group bunker, used as a HQ.
2x 622 Twin group bunker.
6x Gun emplacement for 15.5cm FH414 (f).
1x Flak emplacement.
1x Flak radar control centre.
2x Vf7b SK Ammuniton bunker, bomb-proof.
3x Fa ammunition.
1x Fa officers building.
1x Fa hospital building.
1x Fa radio building.
4x Fa storage.
1x Fa kitchen/canteen building.
1x Water storage.
1x Wellblech shelter.
*) the guns visible on the pictures are NOT original.

France, Normandie, Grandcamp-Maisy. (4)

Grandcamp-Maisy.
AOK 7, KVA H2, KV.Gr. Bayeux, KVU Gr. Vire, Stp. Grandcamp, Maisy Le Casino, Wn. 82.

When you have visited Wn. 81 and walk an other 1km along the coastline, you will get to this location. One of the bunkers is visible at the seaide as well one of the Tobruks on your way towards the site.

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1x Tobruk58c.
1x Tobruk69 mortar.
1x Vf double for 5cm KwK.
3x Vf kitchen/canteen.

Grandcamp-Maisy.
AOK 7, KVA H2, KV.Gr. Bayeux, KVU Gr. Vire, Stp. Grandcamp, Grandcamp-Maisy ouest, Wn. 81.

Start at the harbour of Grandcamp at the south/west side. You will first pass a camping terrain just along the beach line. At the end, about 500 meters, you will see the 667 already standing guard at the seaside. Behind the 667 walking a bit further you find the other objects easily .

Types:
1x 667 Small embrasured emplacement for 5cm tank gun.
1x Ringstand 5cm KwK.
1x Vf double for 5cm KwK.
1x Fa shelter.
1x Tank wall.
2x Remains.

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Grandcamp-Maisy.
AOK 7, KVA H2, KV.Gr. Bayeux, KVU Gr. Vire, Stp. Grandcamp, Maisy, Wn. 87.

Drive from Grandcamp-Maisy over the D 514 and just outside the village turn right into the Chemin du Lieu Marais and follow this road for about 2km towards the coastline. At the end you will see a Y-crossing and there you find the bunkers on your right hand in the meadow.

Types:
2x Vf2a Group shelter, with niches.
1x Vf6a Observation post, shrapnel-proof.