TODT BATTERY / Siegfried Battery: Casemate 3 // GERMAN WW2 Bunker ATLANTICWALL 2019 FRANCE скачать в хорошем качестве

TODT BATTERY / Siegfried Battery: Casemate 3 // GERMAN WW2 Bunker ATLANTICWALL 2019 FRANCE

The Todt Battery, also known as Batterie Todt, is a battery of coastal artillery built by the Germans in World War II, located in the hamlet of Haringzelle, Audinghen, near Cape Gris Nez, Pas de Calais, France. It was part of the Atlantic Wall, and consisted of four 380 millimetres (15 in) calibre Krupp guns with a range up to 55.7 kilometres (34.6 mi), capable of reaching the British coast, and each protected by a bunker of reinforced concrete. The battery fired its first shell on 20 January 1942, although it was only officially opened in February 1942 in the presence of high Kriegsmarine dignitaries.[citation needed] Originally to be called Siegfried Battery, it was renamed in honour of the German engineer Fritz Todt, creator of the Todt Organisation and responsible for the construction of the Atlantic Wall, who died in a plane crash days before the battery's inauguration. The battery was taken by Anglo-Canadian troops in September 1944, after an intense aerial bombardment, as part of Operation Undergo.