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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
Japenese) was 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.
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