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The railway gun in the photo can be seen outside the the Atlantic wall museum at Audinghen France.

There was three guns in the Calais, Wimereux area. The guns could fire across the channel the shells landed in and around Dover between 1942 to 1944.

The Railway Gun

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Sign with the gun details

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When the guns were not being used they were moved. With there transport and hidden in quarries in the area.

Most of the guns were maintained by the German navy

The gun

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The Battery Todt

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The last photo shows the front of the bunker it now a steel and glass door.

Its original door was armour plate 8 ins thick around the gun turret of the 380 calibre gun.





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