Wn92 'Maus', Blériot plage cemetiere
WN · K.V.Gruppe Calais · AOK 15 Nord Pas de Calais · France
Wn92 Maus
A small extra defence probably added to cover a blind spot in the defence.
Wn92 Mau
Wn92 Maus
You can just see the outline of the barbed wire and minefield that surrounds Maus.
01 October 1944 Geoportail
Wn92 Maus
My plan of the defence.
1 x R612 casemate.
1 x Vf2a bunker.
1 x 7.5cm F.K. possibly the same type as at Otter a 7.5cm F.K.231(f). A captured and re used French Kannon.
1961 Geoportail
Wn92 Maus
Operation 'Undergo' was the Canadian attack to take the area around Calais, part of the capture of all the channel ports. All fell except Dunkirk, which held out to the end of the war.
map for 'Undergo' the attack on Calais
Wn92 Maus
The German armies local plan of Calais.
Stützpunkte und Reserven plan im K.V.A. C" 20 May 1944
Wn92 Maus
The view towards the entrance to the port of Calais with Wn75 Löwe in the far distance, Wn93 Wildente near distance and to the right Wn74 Marder.
29 January 2018
Wn92 Maus
Vf2a shelter for the crew of the gun and probably a few more for the defence of the guns area. The defence group may live in the defence or come and go as needed, but the crew of the gun which was at least five, would have lived very local to the gun.
29 January 2018
Wn92 Maus
29 January 2018
Wn92 Maus
I think this is a covered trench between the Vf2a and the casemate and may have held extra ammunition.
29 January 2018
Wn92 Maus
If only.
29 January 2018
Wn92 Maus
View of the cover between the Vf2a and the casemate.
29 January 2018
Wn92 Maus
The rear of the casemate now covered in sand but once held a handy quick firing 7.5 Field Kannon that could have used solid shot (armoured piercing), shrapnel or high explosive rounds. They could rip through the side plates of a landing craft or a Sherman tank.
29 January 2018
Wn92 Maus
The embrasure with a nice flanking wall to seaward. These walls did cover the embrasure from fire from the sea and it was found on D-Day that very few casemates like these took any damage from the initial bombardment and also this casemate as we have seen came under sustained bombing from the RAF and the USAAF heavy aircarft.
29 January 2018
Wn92 Maus
29 January 2018