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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 battery 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, thanks to the thick concrete. Only Bruno turret was damaged, on 3 September 1944, when a shell from a British railway gun hit its elevating gear; the battery was captured shortly afterwards. [citation needed]
Clearing the Channel Coast; Colmar Pocket; Operation Compass; D. Dover Strait coastal guns; Operation Dragoon; Siege of Dunkirk (1944–1945) E. Second Battle of El ...
Clearing the Channel Coast; Battle of the Corinth Canal; D. Dover Strait coastal guns; Siege of Dunkirk (1944–1945) E. ... Battle of Merville Gun Battery;
Action of 26 April 1944; A. ... Dover Barrage; Dover Strait coastal guns; Battle of the Downs; E. English Channel naval campaign, 1338–1339; P. Battle of Portland ...
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 ]
4.7 inch gun United Kingdom: World War I - World War II 120: 12 cm tornautomatpjäs m/70 Sweden: Cold War 120: 12 cm mobile coastal artillery gun m/80 Sweden: Cold War 120: 120mm 45 caliber Pattern 1892 Russian Empire: World War I - World War II 120: 120 mm 50 caliber Pattern 1905 Russian Empire: World War I - World War II 120: 12 cm/45 3rd ...
The Lobourg strait, the deepest part the strait, runs its 6 km (4 mi)wide slash on a NNE–SSW axis. Nearer to the French coast than to the English, it borders the Varne sandbank (shoals) where it plunges to 68 m (223 ft) and further south, the Ridge bank (shoals) (French name "Colbart" [10]) with a maximum depth of 62 m (203 ft). [11]