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The fort was operational in 1941 and armed with four french 10.5 cm guns, K331 (f), with a range up to 12000 meter, plus 2 cm Flak guns, MGs, mortars, stationary flamethrowers and a wide minefield.

The germans began the work on the fortress in winter 1941. By early summer the first cannons were on place and the fort operative.

MKB (Marine Küsten Batterie) 3/512 Lyngen is situated at Spåkenes in the Lyngenfjord in Northern Norway. It was operational in February 1942

Outside Harstad in NorthernNorway one can visit the famous "Adolf Cannons" on the former German coastal fortification MKB5/511 Batterie Theo

Marine Kusten Batterie 1/512 Tromsö Süd was established short after the German occupation of the area in 1940.

Not far from where I live is the remnants of an Atlantikwall fortification, the Heeres Küsten Batterie 20/972 Ansnes,

HKB (HeeresKüstenBatterie) 4/974 is situated just outside one of the worlds largest Maelstroms , The Saltstraumen.

In Sörfold in Nordland you find Heeres Küsten Batterie 8/974 in the small village of Rösvik. This fortification was a part of the Atlantikwa

MKB (Marine Küsten Batterie) 5/510 is situated directly outside Bodø in Nordland. It was operational in October 1940 and were armed with