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...
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2006, p. 82. Stacey 1960, pp. 344–354. "Musée du Mur de l'Atlantique – Batterie Todt". Musée du Mur de l'Atlantique. Retrieved 13 September 2019. Gander...
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Jiangsu Province France The Musée de l'Armée at the Invalides, Paris The Batterie Todt museum near Cape Gris Nez Germany Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig...
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damaged, but not as badly. A second surviving gun can be seen at the Batterie Todt museum, near Audinghen in northern France. Big Bertha (howitzer) M65...
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some of the largest individual pre-Cold War bunkers. The walls of the 'Batterie Todt' gun installation in northern France were up to 3.5 metres (11 ft) thick...
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cross-channel guns, Batterie Lindemann (four 406 mm guns at Sangatte), Batterie Wissant (150 mm guns near Wissant), Batterie Todt (four 380 mm guns),...
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The Batterie Mirus is located in Saint Peter and Saint Saviour, Guernsey. Originally called Batterie Nina, it comprised four 30.5 cm guns. The battery...
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fortified its conquered territories with the Atlantic Wall. Organization Todt built a string of reinforced concrete pillboxes and bunkers along the beaches...
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with two 24 cm weapons and, largest of all, Siegfried (later renamed Batterie Todt) with a pair of 38 cm (15 in) guns. Fire control for these weapons was...
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Kristiansand Cannon Museum (redirect from Batterie Vara)
former military installation. The coastal artillery fortress was named Batterie Vara (MAB 6./502 Vara) by the Germans, when it was built by the German...
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Battery Moltke (Batterie Moltke in German) is an uncompleted World War II former coastal artillery battery in St Ouen in north-west Jersey. It was constructed...
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Battery) was a German World War II artillery battery constructed by the Todt Organization near the French village of Saint-Marcouf in the department of...
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guns were returned to France (in exchange for 3 German 38 cm SKC/34 from Todt Battery) where they were then refurbished at Ruelle. Five guns remain: one...
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18-year-olds) and the Organisation Todt. The Germans used a variety of labour sources, most being forced. After Todt's death in February 1942, Albert Speer...
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continue as planned, despite the death of Dr Todt in a plane crash in February 1942. Albert Speer replaced Todt. Fortress Engineer specialist sub-units such...
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anti-aircraft battery with a radar installation. A small blockhouse was built by the Todt Organization on the west side, with another bunker covering the approach...
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fortifications: some 1,300 guns and Heavy Artillery Battalion 833 (including a Karl-Batterie with three howitzers of 54 cm nicknamed "Thor", "Odin" and "Loki"). Firing...
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Jersey, named after the SMS Lothringen, and constructed by Organisation Todt for the Wehrmacht during the Occupation of the Channel Islands. The first...
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Stellungnahme, insbesondere für Bewaffung MK 108 bezw, R4M oder Rohr-Batterie 108, TLR/Fl.6/III" (in German). Berling, November 1944. De Lattre de Tassigny...
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Abteilung 962 (Mot.). Combat operations commenced in Sept. 1944, when training Batterie 444 deployed. On 2 September 1944, the SS Werfer-Abteilung 500 was formed...
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Hitler thought that there was not enough protection for the guns of Battery Todt emplaced on Cap-Gris-Nez in the Pas de Calais near Wimereux and ordered a...
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and sailors, civilians, and Organisation Todt workers including the Minotaur carrying 468 Organisation Todt workers including women and children from...
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Azeville battery La Batterie d'Azeville Part of Atlantic Wall Azeville, Normandy, France Casemate for 105mm artillery Coordinates 49°27′42″N 1°18′24″W...
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considering that at times there were two German soldiers and one Organisation Todt (OT) worker for every five civilians in the very small land area in the islands...
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battalion commander Bataillonsveterinär – battalion veterinary officer Batterie (Bttr.) – battery, artillery piece; also used for an electrical battery...
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Amfreville battery La Batterie d'Azeville Part of Atlantic Wall Querqueville, Normandy, France Coordinates 49°39′50″N 1°42′28″W / 49.6638°N 1.7078°W...
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the eleven artillery batteries on Guernsey, the largest was located in Batterie Mirus, comprising four 30.5 cm guns which had a range of 51 kilometres...
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