Help Id these heavy coastal guns

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Re: Help Id these heavy coastal guns

Post by Manuferey » 02 Nov 2010 23:46

jopaerya wrote:Hello Sturm78
(2) Could be H.K.B. Touquet-Plage ( 3./1245 ) 6 x 15.5 cm K.418 (f)
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Hi Jos,

I'm thinking HKB St-Gabriel - 1./1245 - 6 x 15.5 cm K.418 (f) - with the steps on the emplacement. :?

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Re: Help Id these heavy coastal guns

Post by Sturm78 » 03 Nov 2010 11:16

Thank you very much for your answers, Jopaerya and Emmanuel. :D

About my second image I agree with Jopaerya. 3./HKB 1245 in Touquet-Plage. In the book "Atlantikwall. Mithe ou Realite" Pag.135 of A. Chazatte there is a picture of 3./HKB 1245 with the same camouflage nets and the wheels of the guns covered with wood.
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Hello Sturm78

(1) I think the 28 cm S.K.L/40 on your photo is from Wangerooge
Why do you think the picture is taken in Wangerooge? :?

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Re: Help Id these heavy coastal guns

Post by jopaerya » 03 Nov 2010 17:28

The photo's that I have seen from the M.K.B. Graf Spee ( Brest ) have no camouflage ,
so that why I think it's at the German coast .

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Re: Help Id these heavy coastal guns

Post by Chazette » 04 Nov 2010 10:37

(1) I think the 28 cm S.K.L/40 on your photo is from Wangerooge
(2) Could be H.K.B. Touquet-Plage ( 3./1245 ) 6 x 15.5 cm K.418 (f)
(3) My guess is the M.K.B. Bastion II ( Calais ) 3 x 19.4 cm K.M. 02
Jos is correct
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Re: Help Id these heavy coastal guns

Post by Sturm78 » 05 Nov 2010 17:02

Hi all,

I found this image on Ebay. I know it is a question almost impossible but....... :roll: Does anyone has some idea?

Thanks in advance. Sturm78
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Re: Help Id these heavy coastal guns

Post by Manuferey » 13 Nov 2010 17:23

I'm wondering if it is not a dummy gun, "Geschuetz Attrape" in German. Compare with the type of camouflage setting here:
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 1#p1431101

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Re: Help Id these heavy coastal guns

Post by Manuferey » 21 Dec 2010 03:08

Any idea of the type of guns and location of this German heavy coastal battery? According to the caption it was somewhere on the French coast along the Channel. But I doubt it since there are high grounds visible in the background. And it doesn't quite look like the Pyrenees mountains. Maybe Norway instead?

US Press picture stamped April 8, 1941

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Re: Help Id these heavy coastal guns

Post by Sturm78 » 01 Jan 2011 12:51

Hi all,

17cm SK L40 coastal gun......in a garage. 8O Any idea about the place?

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Re: Help Id these heavy coastal guns

Post by jopaerya » 01 Jan 2011 14:09

Hello Sturm78

I realy don't know , but there are some others picture's of the gun in depot ( could be Westwall )

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Re: Help Id these heavy coastal guns

Post by Sturm78 » 01 Jan 2011 22:22

Thank you for your answer, Jopaerya. :D

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Re: Help Id these heavy coastal guns

Post by Sturm78 » 09 Jan 2011 16:50

Hi all,

Can anybody identify these two german coastal guns (of french origin) and the batteries?

Images from Bundesarchive
Thanks in advance. Sturm78
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Re: Help Id these heavy coastal guns

Post by jopaerya » 09 Jan 2011 17:04

Hello Sturm78

The first one is from M.K.B. Couronne ( 4 x 13.8 cm K.M.10 (f) ) and the second one M.K.B. Fort Napoleon
with the same guns . Both batteries in the Südwall near and at Marseille .

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Re: Help Id these heavy coastal guns

Post by Sturm78 » 09 Jan 2011 18:26

Thank you very much for your quick answer, Jopaerya. :D

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Re: Help Id these heavy coastal guns

Post by Sturm78 » 03 Feb 2011 11:20

Hi all,

I need with this captured french coastal gun: 194mm Mle 1902 or 138mm Mle 1910 ? :? Battery??

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Re: Help Id these heavy coastal guns

Post by jopaerya » 03 Feb 2011 11:27

Hello Sturm78

The photo is from the M.K.B. Larmor ( Lorient ) with 4 x 16.4 cm K.M. 93-96 (f)

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