Todt Battery
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The Todt Battery, also known as Batterie Todt, was a battery of coastal artillery built by Nazi Germany during World War II, located in the hamlet of Haringzelles, Audinghen, near Cape Gris-Nez, Pas d
A British soldier poses next to the recently captured German 380 mm gun Todt Battery at Cap Gris-Nez.
Krupp K5 cannon on the Atlantic Wall moving out of its shelter in Hydrequent, northern France, 1941
The 21 cm K12 railway gun was only suitable for bombarding land targets.
A German soldier guarding the casemate III at the Todt Battery during World War II
38 cm SK C/34 naval gun
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The 38 cm SK C/34 naval gun was developed by Germany in the late 1930s. It armed the Bismarck-class battleships and was planned as the armament of the O-class battlecruisers and the re-armed Scharnhor
Todt Battery
…during World War II, located in the hamlet of Haringzelles, Audinghen, near Cape Gris-Nez, Pas de Calais, France. The battery consisted of four Krupp 380-millimetre (15 in) guns with a range up to 55.7 kilometres (34.6 mi), capable of reaching the British coast, each protected by a bunker of reinforced concrete. Originally…
38 cm turret of Batterie Vara, Kristiansand, Norway
38 cm shell from Tirpitz found in the Ullsfjorden in Norway
Model of the 38 cm SK C/34 emplacement at Hanstholm