Comments on: Does Pointe du Hoc Still Matter http://www.historynet.com/does-pointe-du-hoc-still-matter.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=does-pointe-du-hoc-still-matter From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:24:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Chas Roberts http://www.historynet.com/does-pointe-du-hoc-still-matter.htm#comment-76582 Chas Roberts Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:14:48 +0000 #comment-76582 That the gun platforms are of the open emplacement type means little and certainly does not preclude the battery from being "important" to the Germans. The battery at Ste Marcouf (Crisbecq) has a number of open emplacements that were operational though new casemates were being constructed to re-house the 210mm Skoda guns. According to several sources on the Atlantic Wall, all the open gun emplacements along the coast were to have been replaced by full casemates built by the Todt organisaion. Although D-Day interfered with that process, it should be remembered that the major port areas received the majority of the concrete with the lesser areas between laging behind somewhat. Batterie "Hamburg" near Cherbourg, for example, would have been the most powerful battery on the peninsula yet construction was never completed. That the gun platforms are of the open emplacement type means little and certainly does not preclude the battery from being "important" to the Germans. The battery at Ste Marcouf (Crisbecq) has a number of open emplacements that were operational though new casemates were being constructed to re-house the 210mm Skoda guns. According to several sources on the Atlantic Wall, all the open gun emplacements along the coast were to have been replaced by full casemates built by the Todt organisaion. Although D-Day interfered with that process, it should be remembered that the major port areas received the majority of the concrete with the lesser areas between laging behind somewhat. Batterie "Hamburg" near Cherbourg, for example, would have been the most powerful battery on the peninsula yet construction was never completed.

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