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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.
The Adolf Guns at
Trondenes are 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 in The US the
Americans had several batteries with 16 inch naval guns, the
same calibre as the Adolf Guns.
BUT - only at
Trondenes can you today find a complete battery of the
original 40.6cm (16 inches) guns used during WW II.
The Battery is today one of the
best preserved in the entire
Atlantic
Wall.
Daily
tours 2009 in the period 15th June up to 14th August
at
11.00, 13.30 and 15.30.
Entrance
fee Adults NOK 60,- children NOK 30,-
Groups
can get own tours but must book in advance.
Meet at
the gate to Trondenes military camp.
Normally
the tour takes between 1 to 1½ hours.
Your own
transportation is required.
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. You are inside a restricted military area.
At the
gun site and inside the bunker complex you can take
pictures.
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