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The Strait of Dover was strategically important because it is the narrowest part of the English channel. Batteries on both sides attacked shipping as well as bombarding the coastal towns and military installations. The German fortifications would be incorporated into the Atlantic Wall which was built between 1942 and 1944.
Aviation accidents and incidents in the Channel Islands in the 1940s; German Fortifications in Jersey; Fort Hommet 10.5 cm Coastal Defence Gun Casement Bunker; Henri Gonay, Belgian airman killed in Jersey, 1944; Military history of France during World War II; Neuengamme concentration camp subcamp list; Sark during the German occupation of the ...
German unit MKB 5 / MAA 511; After the end of the war the Trondenes guns were taken over by the Norwegian Army, along with 1,227 shells. The battery was last fired in 1957 and formally decommissioned in 1964. The three Engeløya guns were sold for scrap in 1956 but the four guns at Trondenes were spared and one is open as a museum.
The Atlantic Wall (German: Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal defences and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defence against an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from the United Kingdom, during World War II.
Jersey is a heavily fortified island with coastal fortifications that date to the English Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, and Nazi Germany's occupation of the Channel Islands. The fortifications include castles , forts , towers , Martello towers , artillery batteries , and seawalls .
The Lost Evidence is a television program on the History Channel which uses three-dimensional landscapes, reconnaissance photos, eyewitness testimony and documents to reevaluate and recreate key battles of World War II.
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