Maisy Batterie (2)

JUNE 2009 NORMANDY - MAISY BATTERIE (2 of 2)
Direct Hit seems to have taken out the middle of the structure	Model 622 bunker had a silo-like architecture housing 20 people and a top-side machinegun port	Bunker Entrance was projected by machinegun port and overhead ricochet deflectors as well	Machine Gun "Tobruk" site perimeter protection was provided through gun portals such as this	Tobruk Interior gunners had telephone connection to command centers to report enemy sightings	Dune Top machinegun portal atop this bunker had beach area coverage
Still In Place a howitzer sits on a concrete stand that enabled the piece to be rotated easily	Pondering A Firing Solution Don van den Bogert inspects the breech of a gun	Ammunition Bunkers were strategically placed throughout the complex	A Few Yards to reach the nearest ammo bunker	Ammo Bunker Entrance led to two rooms at right for shells and one at left for fuses	Model 502 Command Post had radio room and periscope to view outside activity
Radar Flak Control Center once had a roof and housed radar equipment to guide flak guns against Allied aircraft. It is 1 of only 3 are known to exist	Site Inspection Don van den Bogert checks out the flak center area	Commander's Office used during non-combat conditions, the three rooms included a toilet, office and bedroom	Concealed but not buried, the structure would not have survived a direct hit	Room With A View the C.O. had privilege of sunlit windows unlike bunkers housing his personnel	Camouflage Netting was used to help conceal this entrance
Wood-sided? why this one building had no cement protection is unknown	Cammo Patterns cast by sunlit netting
All Normandy 'D-Day Plus 65' trip photos are a multi-national mixture of work by Hervé Argoud, Hans DeBree, Gene Garren, Fred Hoek, Herbert Lahout, Randy Lewellen, Cyndi Mathews, Bill Nation, Dick O'Donnell, Dominique Potier, Vivian Roger, Zane Schlemmer, Donald van den Bogert and Nelly van Loo-Polley. Individual credits have not been given.