I read on the newspaper of West France ?
Titrates " The incredible discovered one of a German site forgotten "
" Under brambles and a meter of ground, Gary Sterne rediscovered a complete whole of blockhouse of quartering German undergrounds and ammunition dump.
Since sixty years, which was undoubtedly the most significant battery of German defense coastal of the Second World war sommeillait under brambles and the ground in a field of Grandcamp-Maisy, in the Apple-brandy. Impassioned collector, the English Gary Sterne has just rediscovered it. Exceptional!
" Incredible, I do not return from there. This place is extraordinary. Nowhere elsewhere, one did not find such a device in such a good state of conservation. " Appointed of Bessin and child of the country, Jean-Marc Lefranc " is bluffé " by the discovery of Gary Sterne, subject British, set on military history and impassioned collector. Under brambles and a meter of ground, it rediscovered in Grandcamp-Maisy a complete whole of blockhouse, of quartering undergrounds and ammunition dump.
" It was known that there were two three blockhouses on the top of the field, but never I would not have imagined that ", is still astonished the deputy.
It is by consulting a German military chart of years 1940 that Gary Sterne makes its discovery . Fascinated, it flies away at once for Normandy. " not knowing where I went, J ' went through fields when suddenly I found myself on concrete. J ' followed this concrete to the edge of the trees, when J ' suddenly discovered the entry of a blockhouse, then of a tunnel, an office, warehouses of provisioning, headquarters, rooms of radio, the other blockhouses and, most significant, supports of guns of 155 mm. "
Neil Armstrong, when it posed the first foot on the moon, was undoubtedly not dazzled more. Then begin a long period of thorough research in the files of Washington and Berlin.
As large as the Point of Hoc
" They revealed me that in 1944, the battery of Maisy was a complex of headquarters for the coastal protection of the beach of Omaha. Its artillery included/understood four guns of 105 mm, three in frames and one in a field, six howitzers of 155 mm in places in the open air, an English gun 25 PDR taken in Dunkirk, two anti-tank guns of 50 mm, two tanks Renault turret assembled on frame, without forgetting the machine-guns and rifles. "
Gary Sterne does not have any more qu ' only one goal: to acquire the grounds to be able to pick the ground. After several months of discrete work, the result is without call: the site is as large as that of the Point of Hoc, in an almost perfect state of conservation.
How could one forget such a place that Rangers succeeded in taking, three days after the Unloading, at the end of engagements to the body with body? Gary Sterne has an explanation. " the" Guide Michelin "1947 of the battle fields had omitted to index it. Since, it was regularly republished without never to be corrected. "
Missing part of the Unloading?
Would fabulous testimony, the battery of Maisy be the missing part of the Unloading? " One questioned knowledge where were the guns of the Point of Hoc. The fire power of the battery of Maisy and its establishment let think that it was it which rammed the beach of Omaha. The battery of the Point of Hoc would then have been only one clever trick of Rommel intended to mislead the Allies. "
Of not to doubt, the discovery of Gary Sterne did not finish making speak."
you think what of this battery of it forgotten ?
Batteries of Cotentin
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/batteries.du.cotentin/
The site is in French
