Todt Battery,Calais 2014.
The Todt Battery 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 one of the most important coastal fortifications of the Atlantic Wall, and consisted of four 380 mm calibre Krupp guns with a range up to 55.7 km, 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 German Navy dignitaries. 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 museum is in Turret 1,and the other three Turrets are down the road up several tracks and are in varying states of disrepair..I hope to visit these another day in the future.
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