Blueprints and location information on "DORA"

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[SWE]Rocketcheese
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Blueprints and location information on "DORA"

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Post by [SWE]Rocketcheese » 22 Jan 2004, 22:15

G'day!

I have looked around the internet in all the possible and impossible places for this information only to come up with empty hands.

Are there any complete blueprints of "Gustav" or "Dora" around anywhere?

I'm also desperately looking for information on exactly where and how the Dora firing site outside Bakhchisaray during the Sevastopol siege was constructed.

Photos, text, illustrations, whatever that can give me any scrap of information on these issues are more than welcome!

This is what I've got so far on the placement of the firing site:

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"The preparation of the firing position, located at a distance of approximately 20 kilometers from the defensive installations of Sevastopol, ended during May 1942 near the populated area Of Duvankoy (present upper-garden). On other information, there was located dummy firing position, and present - between mountains into 2km to the south from Bakhchisaraya. In this case from the basic railroad line it was necessary to lay the special siding track with a length of 16 kilometers, and in the region of combat position to build whole shunting station. After the end of preparatory works to the position there were podany major portions of the gun, and began its assembling, which was being continued week. With the assembling two cranes with the Diesel engines with a power of 1 000 hp, adapted."

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Geographical data on Duvankoy:

http://www.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=44.68 ... ne&alt=396

Latitude: 44.6833
Longitude: 33.7000
Altitude (feet): 396

Lat (DMS): 44° 40' 60N
Long (DMS): 33° 42' 0E
Altitude (meters): 120


Places near Duvankoy

Heading Distance Name
15.8° 5.2 nm Furmanovka
35.4° 4.9 nm Dolinnoye
125.0° 1.7 nm Orta-Kesek
160.4° 4.2 nm Krepkoye
245.0° 2.4 nm Dal'neye
316.6° 4.1 nm Vishnëvoye
340.5° 4.2 nm Tenistoye
349.9° 4.1 nm Nekrasovka


regards,

raketenkaese

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Post by Kaan Caglar » 23 Jan 2004, 20:04

Take a look at here! :)
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Thanks chaps! :)

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Post by [SWE]Rocketcheese » 23 Jan 2004, 23:55

G'day!

Well, as it happens, I've already visited the robinson site and just about any other site google can produce on the relevant search terms, I beleive! :D

I even sent Frits Swanson a mail asking him for details on those 1:48th scale blueprints eldgedly in his posession, but it turnet out to be a dead end as my mail bounced.

Regarding the geographical location of her firing site, I'm just uttery unable to produce ANY detailed information. Either I'm blind, or there is no such information available.

Thanks for helping out! If you find out anything else in regard to these matters of mine, please post back to this thread as I will be monitoring it frm time to time.

Thanks again! :)

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bueprints and information on Dora

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Post by christopher nelson » 13 Jul 2005, 17:13

there is information on Dora in and Iron: the German Conquest of Sevastopol by Cg Sweeting Brassey's Inc 2004 Isbn 1-57488-796-3

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