20.02.2009, 12:43
here is something you might want to add to the map as a add on for further years for the channel map.
The Schleswig Holstein Battery from Hel, in France recalled as Battery Lindemann saw considerable service, with the three guns emplaced singly in turrets, protected by massive concrete encasements in places four meters thick. The guns fired 2,226 shells at Dover between 1940 and 1944. The guns were not put out of action by bombing despite being hit many times, due to the thick concrete. Only the Bruno turret was damaged on 3 September 1944, when a shell from a British Railway Gun hit its elevating gear shortly before the battery was captured.
the same gun was in use in Norway and is still mounted in the same place.
The Adolf canons as they where called had a bore of 40.6 cm and a range of 56000 meters.
AS a pure naval gun the range was 36400 meters.
What a sight this had been in the map and with functioning guns too.....
The Schleswig Holstein Battery from Hel, in France recalled as Battery Lindemann saw considerable service, with the three guns emplaced singly in turrets, protected by massive concrete encasements in places four meters thick. The guns fired 2,226 shells at Dover between 1940 and 1944. The guns were not put out of action by bombing despite being hit many times, due to the thick concrete. Only the Bruno turret was damaged on 3 September 1944, when a shell from a British Railway Gun hit its elevating gear shortly before the battery was captured.
the same gun was in use in Norway and is still mounted in the same place.
The Adolf canons as they where called had a bore of 40.6 cm and a range of 56000 meters.
AS a pure naval gun the range was 36400 meters.
What a sight this had been in the map and with functioning guns too.....