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The 40,6cm Adolf Guns are
among the largest naval guns of WW II placed ashore in Europe.
The Trondenes
Battery with its 4 guns was the most powerful of all
batteries in Hitler's Atlantic Wall. The wall was 5000km
long, from the border between Spain and France in the south
to the border between Norway and Russia in the north.
Several internet
sites claim that the Trondenes guns are the biggest guns
placed ashore ever. That is not correct.
The Adolf Guns at
Trondenes are definitely not the largest naval guns placed ashore
during WWII. Both in Russia, Japan and South-Korea (by the
Japanese) were naval guns slightly larger than the
Adolf Guns placed ashore as coast artillery. And the Germans
had a gun named Dora, used on the Eastern front at
Sevastopol in Russia as railroad artillery. It had a calibre
of 31,5" (80cm) and fired a four metric ton shell.
And in The US the
Americans had several coastal artillery batteries with 16" guns, the
same calibre as the Adolf Guns.
BUT - only at
Trondenes can you today find a complete battery of the
original GERMAN 40.6cm (16 inches) guns used during WW II.
The Battery is today one of the
best preserved in the entire
Atlantic
Wall. Battery Dietl that has no guns unfortunately. At that
battery the bunkers are still
genuine WWII and
can be visited freely. There
is a fee at the bunker museum and it is
open only in the summer
months (June-August)
At
Trondenes it is
not allowed to take pictures or film on your way to
the gun
site from the
gate area, and after you have left the gun
site on your way back to
the gate. At the gun site and inside the bunker complex you
can take pictures.
Restrictions apply because you are inside a military area.
At battery Dietl no
restrictions.
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