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The Dover Strait coastal guns were long-range coastal artillery batteries that were sited on both sides of the English Channel during the Second World War. The British built several gun positions along the coast of Kent , England while the Germans fortified the Pas-de-Calais in occupied France .
The first three guns were situated at the Hel Fortified Area, Poland as Battery Schleswig-Holstein (German unit MKB 2 / MAA 119) during 1940 to protect the Bay of Danzig. All three guns were fired during May and June 1941 [ 3 ] and shortly after the guns were dismounted and transported to France for use as Battery Lindemann.
The first time these guns were used in combat was when the German battleship sailed out to hunt convoys alongside the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in May 1941. Enroute was countered by the British heavy cruisers Norfolk and Suffolk , where 38-cm gun were fired in anger for the first time in the war, warding off the two heavy cruisers (although the ...
28 cm K L/40 "Kurfürst" (six 28 cm MRK L/40 naval guns were converted to railway guns) 28 cm SK L/40 "Bruno" (28 cm SK L/40 gun naval guns were converted to railway guns) 38 cm SK L/45 "Max" (long range coast-defence gun and siege gun) 42 cm Gamma Mörser (siege gun) 42 cm kurze MK 14 L/12 (siege gun, also known as "Bertha")
Pp 43-44, Railway Guns of World War II by Steven Zaloga, Osprey, 2016 In August 1940, German heavy guns positioned on the Pas-de-Calais began shelling coastal transports near Dover. The German bombardments later extended to land targets and eventually involved both fixed-gun batteries and railway guns.
Hougham Battery is a World War II coastal defence battery built in 1941 between Dover and Folkestone in southeast England. It is on the cliff-edge between Abbot's Cliff and Shakespeare Cliff . The battery was equipped with three 8-inch (203 mm) Mark VIII naval guns . [ 1 ]
The naval trawler was sunk in the Strait of Dover by a Kaiserliche Marine destroyer. [4] [2] HMML 12 Royal Navy: The motor launch was shelled and sunk in the Strait of Dover by a Kaiserlich Marine destroyer. [2] HMS Newbury Royal Navy: The Racecourse-class minesweeper was shelled and set on fire by German torpedo boats.
Amongst the first were the Dover Strait guns begun in July 1940 and included Todt Battery. Building began in February 1941 on the Saint-Nazaire submarine base Following the first effective commando raid in March 1941 Operation Claymore and with the planning of Operation Barbarossa , Hitler decided in June 1941 to strengthen the west against ...