BIG Gun

Phoenix,

The Guns of Navarone was fiction. There is no island named "Navarone" in the Aegean Sea.

"The foundations for some of the largest German coastal artillery emplacements along the French coast were laid as early as 1940 in the Pas de Calais region, a mere 40 kilometres across the English Channel from Dover. These gun positions originally were intended to support a German invasion of Britain. Subsequently, they fired on Allied shipping in the Channel and regularly shelled Dover, Folkestone and elsewhere along the British coast."

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The Cooler King said:
Phoenix,

The Guns of Navarone was fiction. There is no island named "Navarone" in the Aegean Sea.

"The foundations for some of the largest German coastal artillery emplacements along the French coast were laid as early as 1940 in the Pas de Calais region, a mere 40 kilometres across the English Channel from Dover. These gun positions originally were intended to support a German invasion of Britain. Subsequently, they fired on Allied shipping in the Channel and regularly shelled Dover, Folkestone and elsewhere along the British coast."

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I know... I was just joking!

But the coastal guns were real and I saw a documentary about it on history television!
 
I think Germans did put big gun somewhere on Normandy. I heard it from History Channel, long time ago.
 
There was a V3 gun developed which was built into a hill side in France that could have shelled London. It was very similar to the one designed for Saddam Hussein and the parts were sized by customs. The British Troops over run the area were the gun was built before it could have been put into use and on Churchill's orders destroyed the gun and the whole complex
 
Didn't Germany use those big guns while Sevastapol was under seige? "The mother of all guns" IMO.
 
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