enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Dover Strait coastal guns - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_Strait_coastal_guns

    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 .

  3. List of coastal artillery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coastal_artillery

    World War I - World War II 130: 130 mm/50 B13 Pattern 1936 Soviet Union: World War II - Cold War 130: 130 53 TK Finland: Cold War Modern 140: 14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval gun Japan: World War II 145: Canon de 145 L modele 1916 Saint-Chamond France: World War I - World War II 149.1: 15 cm SK L/45 German Empire: World War II: 149.1: 15 cm SK C/28 ...

  4. Category:World War II artillery of Germany - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II...

    World War II anti-tank guns of Germany (23 P) Pages in category "World War II artillery of Germany" The following 107 pages are in this category, out of 107 total.

  5. Todt Battery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todt_Battery

    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 de Calais, France.

  6. Atlantic Wall - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wall

    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.

  7. Coastal artillery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_artillery

    The weapon is possibly a German-made 28 cm SK L/40 gun on a coast ... From the Middle Ages until World War II, coastal artillery and naval artillery in the form ...

  8. Longues-sur-Mer battery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longues-sur-Mer_battery

    The Longues-sur-Mer battery (German: Marineküstenbatterie (MKB) Longues-sur-Mer; also designated Widerstandsnest (Wn) 48) [1] is a World War II German coastal artillery battery approximately 1 km (0.62 mi) north of the village of Longues-sur-Mer in Normandy, France.

  9. Festung Norwegen - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festung_Norwegen

    Positions of German coastal artillery in southern Norway (February 1945) An extensive network of coastal artillery batteries with heavy (>15.5 cm), medium (12-15.5 cm) and light (<12 cm) ordnance was set up around the entire coast. These were typically placed so as to cover the approaches to main population centres and likely landing sites.