StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', Part 2 A visit 2020

BATTERIE · K.V.U.Gruppe Vire · AOK 7 Normandy · France

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére

Two batteries set side by side (which is unusual) StP84 & StP83. StP83 had four10cm le.F.H.14/19 Kannon and two 7.5cm F. K. 16n.Art. in three R612 casemates with a third under construction..

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

I made another visit on the 20 July 2020 and this is a record of the new bunkers uncovered.

Interservice Target No:9/J/8

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R612 casemate I have never seen it looking so bad.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R622 Twin Group Bunker.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R622 two entrances and a Tobruk defence on the left side.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R622 rusted periscope fitting.

I believe this picture may have been taken here.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R622 air vents.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R622 the Tobruk defence, a ring mounted machine gun could be fitted and the gunner/observer had a speaking tube to keep in contact with the inside of the bunker and could shout down and explain what is going on outside.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R622 Tobruk looking from inside.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R622 Tobruk Cannabis factory.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

Where Maisy dumped all its rubbish.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R622 the left entrance with the close combat defence ready to fire on you.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R622 the passageway.

Plan Kurt

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R622 this is the aerial slot, a specially designed bunker aerial fitted into the slot and could be extended or retracted as need be. Just because there is a slot, it does not mean that there was an aerial fitted. But in my mind, if there is an earthing strip in place. Then there was a probability that the aerial was fitted. You can just see a rusted earthing strip.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R622 left hand crew room. On the left is the gas filter shelf to hold spare filters, above the four square blocks are where the gas filter screwed to the wall and above the air filter pipes.

Wandstütze.
Bracket fitted to the four square blocks on the wall. — Wandstütze. Bracket fitted to the four square blocks on the wall.

Kurbelhous.
Filter & pump. There was also an electric motor to drive it, if the had electricity. — Kurbelhous. Filter & pump. There was also an electric motor to drive it, if the had electricity.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R622 crew room two, fittings for the heating.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R622 back out and through the rubbish. A 434P01 door would have closed off the entrance here.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R622 close combat defence embrasure.

Possibly a 483P2 embrasure was fitted here.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 1

Allied intelligence plan of Maisy but they got the R607 ammunition bunker in the wrong position..

Air 37/864

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R607 ammunition bunker The view across the R607 with the third casemate in the distance.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R607 ammunition bunker Looking along the front of the bunker.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R607 ammunition bunker. Note the camouflage covering the entrances.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R607 ammunition bunker air vents in the wall.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R607 ammunition bunker Tobruk entrance.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R607 ammunition bunker. The Tobruk entrance and stairway.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R607 ammunition bunker Inside the Tobruk. The square niche would have had a Sprachrohr speaking tube to connect with the inside of the bunker.

How the Sprachrohr was connected to the inside of the bunker.

Also it may hold a relay box that a field telephone could be attached.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R607 ammunition bunker The left entrance and notice straight away how wide the entrance is compared to a normal bunker. This is to allow ammunition to be carried in and out.

Plan Kurt

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R607 ammunition bunker The passage way to the two rooms, one behind the other. The floor was several inches in water so I could not get right in.

19P7 thin steel door, really an internal door and should have been a heavy 434P01 door. I wonder why?

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R607 ammunition bunker. Inside the first room. I noticed that this room has a gas filtration system built in. That is not standard, so this bunker may have been designed as maybe a crew room and the second room an ammunition room.

Wandstütze.
Bracket for the wall. — Wandstütze. Bracket for the wall.

Spare filters fitted on the shelf near the floor.

VW - filter.
The yellow aluminum filter assembly on the wall above the pump. It held a cotton filter. On the main picture some broken aluminum can be seen above the filtration system. — VW - filter. The yellow aluminum filter assembly on the wall above the pump. It held a cotton filter. On the main picture some broken aluminum can be seen above the filtration system.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R607 ammunition bunker. Details of the gas filtration system and an advert.

D & G DFWS 63

Contemporary advertising for bunker equipment

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

R607 ammunition bunker The second passageway. I did not enter as it was full of Maisy towns glass and rubbish dumped there over the years. The door here was a 434P01 heavy steel door. It comes in two parts, top & bottom. A small window in the top door.

StP84 Maisy - Batterie 'Brasilia', La Martinére Part 2

The view of the batterie and you can just see Utah Beach museum and the Red house. Wn05 la Madeleine plage, K.V.U.Gruppe Marcouf, K.V.Gruppe Cotentin Ost. This is the view that would have been seen from the watchtower of Utah Beach or Wn05 and they would have fired their four Kannons on the beach.