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In the following June and July, FW3 issued six basic designs for rifle and light machine gun, designated Type 22 to Type 27. In addition, there were designs for gun emplacements suitable for either the Ordnance QF 2 pounder or the Hotchkiss 6pdr gun [6] (designated Type 28) and a design for a hardened medium machine gun emplacement.
The Lithgow Heavy Anti Aircraft Gun Stations and Dummy Station is a heritage-listed former gun emplacements, anti aircraft gun batteries and dummy batteries and now disused railway signal box located via Kirkley Street, Bowenfels, City of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1941 to 1942 by Water Conservation & Irrigation ...
Fort Henry Observation Bunker. Fort Henry is a Grade II listed [1] World War Two observation bunker overlooking Studland Bay, in Dorset.It was built in 1943 to defend the bay from possible German invasion along with other beach defences such as gun emplacements, Type 25 pill boxes and concrete Dragon’s Teeth anti-tank obstacles (which have also been listed for protection).
Battery Ruger, like all of the 155mm batteries, were temporary emplacements using four "Panama mounts", a circular track surrounding a center pivot where a 155mm GPF gun was mounted. Battery Granger Adams was a typical pre-World War II coast defense emplacement, with the magazine in a protected bunker and the guns behind parapets in
Map of Narragansett Bay mine, net, boom, and magnetic detection defenses in World War II, on a plaque at Fort Wetherill. 16-inch casemated gun, similar to those at Fort Church and Fort Greene. Early in World War II numerous temporary buildings were again constructed to accommodate the rapid mobilization of men and equipment.
Fort William and Mary by Wolfgang William Romer (1705). Fort Constitution in the 19th century. Battery Farnsworth, 8-inch disappearing gun emplacement, Fort Constitution. The first fort in the Portsmouth area was Fort William and Mary (called The Castle until circa 1692) in New Castle, [8] initially garrisoned before 1632 and perhaps the oldest continuously fortified site in the British ...
Battery Jewell's #2 gun emplacement. 90 mm M1 gun on T3/M3 fixed seacoast mount at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Brewster Islands Military Reservation was a coastal defense site located on Great Brewster Island and Outer Brewster Island in Boston Harbor , Massachusetts as part of the Harbor Defenses of Boston .
The term "barbette" is also used by some, again primarily British historians, to describe a remotely aimed and operated gun turret emplacement [20] on almost any non-American military aircraft of World War II, but it is not usable in a direct translation for the varying German language terms used on Luftwaffe aircraft of that era for such ...