From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Turpitz was attacked more than once by 617 Squadron and
9 Squadron.
The in last pair of attacks she was first severely
damaged, then the Germans moved her South to be emplaced
as a massive coastal battery. It was here that she
received at least
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Davisd Johnson said:
The guns were about 2-300 yards inland from the cliff
edge and often, when walking along the cliff path, we
would notice that we were being tracked by
the guns - very disconcerting!
I used to drive the road from Swaffham to Mildenhall over
From: "David Johnson", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The coast around Dover was positively bristling with guns!
In the early '50s I lived just along the coast from Dover. There were
batteries of (I think) 6" guns that were still used for practice, firing at
a sort of raft of railway sleepers towed behind
