Coastal battery Cherbourg

[Sébastien HAULE]

Dear Members,

A friend send me the information about a picture (I can't post attachement) : it is a picture about a coastal battery in Cherbourg. He found this picture on this forum.

In fact, this picture had been taken in fortress Le Havre : it is one of the turret of an unfinished heavy coastal battery (38 cm gun, French origin).

My question is : who posted this picture here? Is it a picture from a serie of pictures?

Thanks in advance,

Sébastien HAULE,
historian,
University of Le Havre, FRANCE

[Akira Takiguchi]

Please send the scan to my e-mail address vq5a-tkgc@asahi-net.or.jp so that I can post it for you. Any association member can help you, not necessarily me.

[Sébastien HAULE]

Nobody can help me?

[Akira Takiguchi]

I haven't received any message from you?

[Denis]

Sébastien,

You should post the link to the related thread where this picture was posted. It would greatly help. Do you have to contact the member who originally posted the picture ?
Regards
Denis

[Akira Takiguchi]

Members! This is the photo being sought, do you remember who posted this?

[Akira Takiguchi]

By the way, could this be interesting to you? (click the picture for a larger scan)

<a href="http://www.history.jp/images/FR-Kuestenbatterie.jpg">
<img src="http://www.history.jp/images/FR-Kuestenbatterie.jpg" width=640>
</a>

[Maikäfer]

Could this be one if the images of W. Petz?

[Akira Takiguchi]

One of the GI photos, probably? Bill! Somebody needs you here!

[Sébastien HAULE]

Dear Akira,

The picture you post with the firing gun seems to be the batterie Grosser Kurfurst in Pas de Calais, Northern France. It was one of the heavy battery build by German with the view to control the English Chanel.

[W Petz]

Hello Sebastien,

The photo in question was taken by a GI during WW2. It came out of his photo album with a number of other destroyed flak gun positions. I have since removed that image from my hard drive. If you need a better quality scan I can provide it sometime in the near future.

I must apologize for my abruptness on this because I'm in the middle of packing alot of my collection up. There is a certain Hurricane named Rita heading towards our South Texas Gulf coast where I just happen to be located. I plan on sticking it out (armed of course - no looting will be taking place here..Partner!!). The Army depot where I work is shutting down tomorrow. Hopefully we won't get hit to hard (the base is right on the water). Got a report from our Security personnel that the City of Corpus Christi is starting to evacuate some folks. Hurricane is suppose to hit us Friday night or early Saturday morning. Tomorrow is another day...We shall see what happens!! Bill

[Akira Takiguchi]

Thanks Bill for replying, may there be no real harm on you, your family and your friends there!

Thanks Sébastien for giving me a clue! Great help. Obstlt.(E) Frisch seems to have been responsible for constucting this gun. Interesting sequence is filmed.

[Sébastien HAULE]

Dear Friends,

Thanks for your help and reply ! Dear Bill, I wish you good luck and hope everything will be ok for you with this new huricane. I will contact you latter about this picture.

See you soon.

Regards,

Sébastien