MAISY BATTERY - NORMANDY 2007

Some footage of the Maisy battery which lay undiscovered for over 60 years.... It is a liitle hard to find, but worth a visit. Located southwest of Maisy, at a place called La Martinière, this army battery was composed of four 105-mm guns. Just before D-Day, three of these guns were placed in casemates, the last one remaining in its open-air pit. As featured in BBC2 Timewatch with Richard Hammond.
LOCATION:
http://www.maisybattery.com/top_secret_map_directions_campmaisy.html

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[steeltown1001]

visit Normandy 2times a year, and never knew this. shame.....tnx for the info !!!

[advancedbiker]

Try and get to visit it as he has bought some more artillary and put them on site, oh plus a wooden landing craft. That was in September 2009.

[Sterney1]

The site now has a load of original WWII german cannons on the gun pits. There are also a load of new buildings which have been uncovered. Not to mention the German skeleton which was recovered a month a go!

[advancedbiker]

Will take another look, back over in Normandy April 2009, motorcycle training and of course site seeing....

[advancedbiker]

The site is looking great with those guns and now a landing craft........

Still worth a visit

[missbiss101]

hey i need more info because my name is maisy 

[nellgwen48]

I just got back from there. It's quite the experience. I visited on a very wet windy day. Go when you can linger more because you'll be able to absorb it better.

[CAZNTUBE]

u have to go man,

my granddad landed on goldbeach

english forces'@ arromanches,

i wanted to go a few weeks ago

but we had to go for the selections in belgium so, pitty it was da 65annual meeting and the last one for many oldies'

look 1st to a few oldskool war-movies

like dday-saving private ryan-and others

u'll see the realdeal over there..

it sure do gonna give u a taste if u walk on those beaches and imagine that it was u, to run to the dunes without any bullet in the corps'

peace'

[OzzyJ0]

well if you can give me any locations where the german defensives where as iam gonna visit them asap

[soldier716]

awesome video man, i've always wanted to go to normandy. my grandpa landed on omaha beach, he doesn't talk a whole hell of alot about it, but he's got his name somewhere on a wall over there near omaha