Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Maisy battery is a group of World War II artillery batteries constructed by the Wehrmacht near the French village of Grandcamp-Maisy in Normandy. It formed a part of Germany's Atlantic Wall coastal fortifications and was the principal position of defence for that area.One battery consisted of four 105-mm cannons (three inside casements and one in an open field position). Another site 300 yards away consisted of six 155-mm First World War-vintage French howitzers, two 50mm KwK anti-tank cannons, dozens of bunkers, accommodation blocks, shelters for personnel and ammunition and an extensive trench system featuring mortar pits and defensive machine-gun emplacements. The site also contained the regional headquarters for the sector. The battery was garrisoned by approximately 450 soldiers on rotation. It was built under strict security by forced labour from Russia, Czechoslovakia and Poland and the Wehrmacht run battery was not marked on the Allied D-Day maps which were released to the invasion troops. Given that the Allied Rangers were not briefed to assault Maisy Battery and were instead sent to attack the empty gun battery at Pointe du Hoc, many historians suggest that Pointe du Hoc (on D-Day) was used by German defenders as a ruse to lead the Allies away from Maisy."@en }
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- Maisy_battery abstract "The Maisy battery is a group of World War II artillery batteries constructed by the Wehrmacht near the French village of Grandcamp-Maisy in Normandy. It formed a part of Germany's Atlantic Wall coastal fortifications and was the principal position of defence for that area.One battery consisted of four 105-mm cannons (three inside casements and one in an open field position). Another site 300 yards away consisted of six 155-mm First World War-vintage French howitzers, two 50mm KwK anti-tank cannons, dozens of bunkers, accommodation blocks, shelters for personnel and ammunition and an extensive trench system featuring mortar pits and defensive machine-gun emplacements. The site also contained the regional headquarters for the sector. The battery was garrisoned by approximately 450 soldiers on rotation. It was built under strict security by forced labour from Russia, Czechoslovakia and Poland and the Wehrmacht run battery was not marked on the Allied D-Day maps which were released to the invasion troops. Given that the Allied Rangers were not briefed to assault Maisy Battery and were instead sent to attack the empty gun battery at Pointe du Hoc, many historians suggest that Pointe du Hoc (on D-Day) was used by German defenders as a ruse to lead the Allies away from Maisy.".