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The Maisy Battery is relatively unknown; after the war it was abandoned and well hidden until the British historian Gary Sterne discovered it by chance.

Situated near Grandcamp-Maisy, the Maisy battery is close to the boundaries between between Utah and Omaha beaches. It is believed that the Maisy battery was responsible for causing carnage on D-day: it was sufficiently far back from the beach that it could not be taken out easy by the landing troops, but was well equipped to bombard the beaches with shells.

Memorial stone to the 5th Ranger Infantry Batallion who fought for hours on the 9th June (D-Day + 3) to take the site. Given the scale of the site, and the number of fortifications, this must have been a near-impossible task.

The site is well presented with plenty of signs to inform viewers.

A rusty heating stove and another rusty, unidentified, object.

Tiled floor.

The command post.

You can just make out the trenches. In the war time, these would have been much more defined, held up with wooden supports. For safety reasons, these are now much wider, without horizontal surfaces, and there are no supports.

Gun mount.

Work is still on going to excavate more trenches.

Another gun.