Just incredible to have such a detailed look into the turret like that, to see all the different intricate steps, and to actually see parts of it still working as they did when it was first used. Serious Kudo's to the guys and gals who put so much time and effort into maintaining this amazing survivor of WW2. They have such a unique workplace. Gneisenau and her sister Scharnhorst made several sorties into the Atlantic before she was damaged in an Allied bombing raid while in drydock in Kiel, after which the turrets were removed for use as land batteries. So this turret would have seen some serious naval action in her time despite having only fired once on land. To think of how much time, and effort, money, and manpower, it took to move, and install this massive complex turret into that mountainside is just insane. Thank you HH, and EE, and your guide, for taking us along on such a fascinating explore! Cheers to you all!
Amazing tour! Hard to wrap my mind around how much planning and work to build the whole system from living spaces to the artillery. So complex yet easy to manage. Thanks for returning here. Thanks to your friend for the added insight.
Great tour and a special thanks to your friend for taking us through this amazing location. This was very interesting to see. Thank you and EE for taking us along.
This is fascinating, indeed! I can only imagine the activity inside, when it was in use. Thank you, HH and EE, as well as your friend, for the awesome tour!❤
Did the Kriegsmarine operate this location? It looks like it wouldn’t take too much to have these gun operational again. The personnel operating this gun had to be highly trained to operate this gun. Imagine having to operate this gun and having to watch all the gages there. Thank you so much for sharing your videos. It allows me to see history that I would never see myself.
This is a fantastic follow-up to the first pass, HH. Since the turret azimuth was 240, do we know what compass direction 0 was? At least the mountain could not capsize and lose the turret. Great job with the video, my friend. I'm really looking forward to more from the last trips. The both of you take care and stay well.
And the mountain doesn't turn, roll, or heave, so some factors of aiming/firing the guns removed from consideration compared to when at sea... I'd assume 0° to be due north and then increase clockwise, putting 240° at approximately west-south-west (which would match the circular indicator shown when the direction was mentioned)
I'm still in amazement as to how they managed to get all of that moved and installed in and on the mountain ! For some reason I cant see what I'm typing until I post it , But none the less an amazing part two video and I'm so glad you went back and got that personal tour . 💖
Thank you for sharing this with us . This is beyond amazing . One of your best vlogs especially after seeing how hard its for you to even see a wrecked pieces of a motor from a plane crash and now seeing all these machines intact like this is mind blowing. Thanks for your effort and determination
My grandfather landed D day plus 6. 117th regiment of the 30th infantry division. Pvt. Newport Burl R. I would truly give anything in life to retrace his footsteps. I think of you sir as my family. Love you all much an Happy Thanksgiving!!!
If mere Snipers were earning the fury of the USS Texas during the landings...we'd be hearing the USS Wisconsin from the other side of the world yelling TEMPER TEMPER (long before it's own instance) when the Texas turned this thing into scrap metal//giant crater. Would have help of course...
The noise and percussion had to be enormous. What a fantastic tour. Very impressive. Did you say the gun could still fire to this day? Thank you for sharing and yes history is everywhere 😊 .
Oh, I do so love the videos you've done of this site since I'll probably never get a chance to see it in person. Do love the coastal artillery sites and that is one of the premier sites around. It is really an incredible location, and it was so great you were able to take your time this trip and get a tour with your friend explaining so much. Shame when they deactivated the site back in the late 60s that they didn't preserve the ability to keep a lot of the stuff working. Would be great to see the systems moving the rounds and stuff. Still, it is wonderful that they've preserved so much of the site. Thanks for taking us along.
We are honored that you are here with us and your support is greatly appreciated. YOU have made so much of what we do come alive and we thank you for that :)
GREAT vid! Totally enjoyed it! The installation makes me wonder if it was the inspiration for the movie "The Guns Of Navarone". I kept expecting to see Gregory Peck and David Niven every time you turned a corner. 🤩
Eagle eyes is a growing boy. The ship on top of the mountain is a great idea. On a ship, an armor-piercing shell can penetrate to magazine and blow the ship up, like the HMS Hood. Here they are safe, no armor-piercing shell and penetrate the mountain.
Thank you again for this awesome tour. As others have said, the engineering that went into the gun position is staggering, having adapted it from it's place on the great battleship. And all that effort for it to fire only once during wartime. I now have vowed to see this position myself someday. I'm still marveling at the effort it must have taken to simply move the gun to it's current position. All the best to you guys!
This was amazing! The complexities of the machinery astounds me! The Germans were so far advanced in their engineering. Incredible! They are always impressing me with their advances in architecture and engineering. To imagine the manpower used to build such a machine and the manpower used to put it on top of that mountain and make a living space for the crew members. Wow! A truly impressive people. Thank you for taking us back and doing this awesome walkthrough. Take care and stay safe. 💖💯
What an incredible opportunity to see the gun placement is enormous and gorgeous. Really nice to see everything thank you History hunter and Eagle Eye's.
That battleship turret is quite impressive. I wonder why they chose this location for such a large battery that could fire such large shells such distances. Were they guarding a very important channel with this battery? The inner workings were so complete and it was a great tour that you provided for us! I am surprised they had brass powder casings for such a large gun instead of just loading the powder into the breach in flammable bags. The rate of fire of one round every 16 seconds is very surprising for such large guns. I bet it took a lot of hand cranking to move the turret! The engineering to install this thing must have taken quite an effort! That breech block was so large and must weigh tons! I was fascinated by this entire thing! Great tour HH, thanks for taking us along!
They were guarding several huge infrastructures and this is where any allied vessel would have to come to try and take over hence the location. Such a massive and technical install , inside a mountain. Just totally insane much work involved. Thanks Donald for you FANTASTIC support and more to come :)
That is just amazing!! WOW....to build such a complex, use it once; what a waste of money, BUT, it is very impressive on what the Germans did on building that and the transport of the naval guns,etc. To get a private tour of such a complex, how lucky!!! So thankful the gentleman let you on such a tour and that it is being preserved!! At the end, I can just imagine the gun crew or some others having to clean the barrels of those guns. Wonder if they did it on the outside or inside? On a ship, it was from the outside,yes? Still, what an amazing tour, trip this was. Thanks for taking us. Enjoyed it a lot!!
Very cool. I wish I could tour something like this myself. I still don't like the internet overall but it does have its up-sides- I get to vicariously see things I otherwise never could. Thanks for the vid, sub earned :D
I have seen the inside of the Battleship Texas. It has 5 turrets with 2 each 35.6-centimeter guns. No one can get the real feel for the size of those guns unless they have seen some in person. They are huge. Glad to see that this one is in such good shape. Thanks for showing them to me. I bet EE could have fit in the breech of one of those guns.
Hello HH & EE, It's good that the bunker is preserved in its original state, it shows the madness of warfare. It's a lot of work to demolish the armament of a bunker, it was often done with bunkers.
All that equipment imagine all those men in there working in unison like a living machine to fire that. Gives you an insight to what must have been used in some of those stripped out Bunkers we have been in with you and EE. Particularly those amazing Siemens phones. Thankyou again !!
Years ago, prior to returning to the university & switching to mathematics I was a project manager for relatively large industrial construction projects. The thing that strikes me is that it took one a rather complete understanding of the interacting systems involved in the final product in order to schedule the trades in the most efficient manner possible. Something like a common house would be easy peasy to manage compared to this thing, especially given the location & site work needed. Obviously with the exception of the concrete most of what makes up the gun platform was built or manufactured off site but it still needs installed with an order of installation needed. Also, while the concrete work may seem simple, it was not. First, it was no doubt very thick requiring substantially braced forms & it also no doubt had many embedded anchors & etc that needed to be placed prior to placing concrete at precise locations in a manner that prevented dislocation. Yep, I am impressed like always when these projects are viewed after completion. You can't help thinking how the hell did this become realized, but like always it was step by step & with careful planning.
3:28 "Stop, Links, Rechts, Heben, Senken, this means it kind of does something" :-) well yes, it actually means "Stop, Left, Right, Up, Down" and indeed it was to operate the artillery shell hoist. The button "Langsam" on top of the console means "Slow" for more accurate operation.
Must have been like the Egyptian’s building the pyramid to taking this gun off the ship piece by piece dragging up a mountain and putting it back together again,and doing the tunnel system as well. Incredible engineering.
Absolutely mind boggling what they did there. Rip it out of a ship, transport the pieces and put it into a mountain in working condition. People surely shit their pants the first time they fired this. It fires all 3 at the same time? Looks like the lever closes 3 relays. Damn I can't imagine the forces. Beautiful inclination scale. Absolutely beautifully manufactured. I am happy they didn't just destroy all this for the few times it's been fired. At least we marvel at it. Very satisfying, thank you.
This turret originally came from the Gneisenau if I recall right. It was removed when the navy tried to rearm her with 15. Inch guns but the rebuild was cancelled following the battle of the Barents Sea. Gneisenau was ultimately sunk as a block ship.
I'm just blown away by this. An incredible feat of engineering and determination. Organisation Todt at work. The real downside to all this, of course, is that none of it would have been possible without slave labour. How many died in the building of this, I wonder?
using brass instead of bags is an interesting choice, i suppose it safer to handle, and prevents over ramming, but i think its harder to handle just because of the sheer size, but i hope they recycle that brass lol the more i watch the more i am impressed by the technology, the sliding breech is genius and has been adopted EVERYWHERE, Easier to machine than a screw breech, and faster loading.
This looks like one of those things were you see it and are like "wow that would be so effective then you read about it and find out one drunk sailor fell over on the fire controls at the wrong time The shell then jammed the guns so it could only shoot at max elevation and then they all surrendered and youre like "well im glad we won but.... Im disapointed"
Funny thing you would have thought all the copper etc would be long gone , I can’t believe how complete it seems, mind blowing in the UK there would be nothing left the rag man would have it!
Actually the ship was in action in 1940 ageist allied convoys, and in sinking a British armed merchant cruiser, and an aircraft carrier, so this turret saw a lot of action before being emplaced here.
" Holy Pancake" Batman! lol. These were medium calibre naval guns 2.8 cm ( 283 mm or 11.141"). But I have to admit the German engineering is superb. Take a look at pictures of the 17" naval gun barrels and shells outside the Imperial War Museum in London if you want to see a BIG gun lol I didn't know these were taken from the Gniesneau ( not sure I've got the spelling right) did they take them off her to up gun the ship to a bigger calibre for the secondary armament do you know. Or is there another story? Thank you for the tour of this incredible gunnery site. Whereabouts is this please?
Sometimes I wonder how God's name.Did the germans lose the war with all this incredible equipment. I know it's just lack of production.The numbers weren't there.If they were there with tanks and guns and jets and airplanes , germany would have conquered the world.
The engineering skills that went in to building such a mighty battle station is very impressive. Great tour guys.
Great place to see and thanks so much :)
And they still used a wooden door locked from the inside?
Just incredible to have such a detailed look into the turret like that, to see all the different intricate steps, and to actually see parts of it still working as they did when it was first used. Serious Kudo's to the guys and gals who put so much time and effort into maintaining this amazing survivor of WW2. They have such a unique workplace. Gneisenau and her sister Scharnhorst made several sorties into the Atlantic before she was damaged in an Allied bombing raid while in drydock in Kiel, after which the turrets were removed for use as land batteries. So this turret would have seen some serious naval action in her time despite having only fired once on land. To think of how much time, and effort, money, and manpower, it took to move, and install this massive complex turret into that mountainside is just insane. Thank you HH, and EE, and your guide, for taking us along on such a fascinating explore! Cheers to you all!
It really is insane to know all of the work done there and even inside a mountain. Just so interesting it is. Thanks and greetings from us :)
Thanks! This was an incredible adventure. Thanks you and EE and all you do to bring these videos to us
That is very kind of you and we thank you for that. Appreciated it is and we send our greetings from us :)
Amazing tour! Hard to wrap my mind around how much planning and work to build the whole system from living spaces to the artillery. So complex yet easy to manage. Thanks for returning here. Thanks to your friend for the added insight.
yes so much there to see and glad we could share a proper tour with you Stephanie :)
Great tour and a special thanks to your friend for taking us through this amazing location. This was very interesting to see. Thank you and EE for taking us along.
Such an fantastic place to experience and so glad we could share this extended tour with you Allen :) Thanks for your FANTASTIC support :)
Incredible ! I would of never thought it would be totally intact. Great video guys ! You'll have to pry EE from that gun room.
that turret was operational to early 1980ies. the other turret, on the other side of the sound, was demolished in 1945.
Best WW2 gun emplacement video ever, amazing to see this place restored to the way it was when it was working instead of derelict bunkers.
Thanks for watching :)
Excellent part two. Thank you for sharing and as always " Good Hunting "
Appreciated and thanks my friend :)
That was super interesting. The size of those projectiles and the brass cases is quite impressive, not to mention the size of that gun breech!
Totally so my friend and thanks from us :)
This is fascinating, indeed! I can only imagine the activity inside, when it was in use. Thank you, HH and EE, as well as your friend, for the awesome tour!❤
Many thanks!
Great video again lads , brilliant that this history is being preserved for future generations to see.
Did the Kriegsmarine operate this location? It looks like it wouldn’t take too much to have these gun operational again. The personnel operating this gun had to be highly trained to operate this gun. Imagine having to operate this gun and having to watch all the gages there. Thank you so much for sharing your videos. It allows me to see history that I would never see myself.
Marine operated yes. Just so complex and imagine all the work involved moving all of that. Just insane. Thanks Anthony :)
This is a fantastic follow-up to the first pass, HH. Since the turret azimuth was 240, do we know what compass direction 0 was? At least the mountain could not capsize and lose the turret. Great job with the video, my friend. I'm really looking forward to more from the last trips. The both of you take care and stay well.
And the mountain doesn't turn, roll, or heave, so some factors of aiming/firing the guns removed from consideration compared to when at sea...
I'd assume 0° to be due north and then increase clockwise, putting 240° at approximately west-south-west (which would match the circular indicator shown when the direction was mentioned)
Thanks!
Very kind of you and thanks from us :)
I'm still in amazement as to how they managed to get all of that moved and installed in and on the mountain ! For some reason I cant see what I'm typing until I post it , But none the less an amazing part two video and I'm so glad you went back and got that personal tour . 💖
Totally my question as well. Soooo much work involved. That is strange indeed. Happy to have shared it with you my friend :)
They assembled it there
@@Green-aider I understand that , still some of the pieces are huge ! Plus everything else that went into putting it all together .
Awesome hands on history, thank you and EE for taking me with you again.
Our pleasure my friend and what a place to see and share with you. More to come later and keep smiling out there :)
I went on board the US Battleship Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virginia. It was much more modern that the Gneisenau. The turret was much roomier.
Must have been interesting indeed. Thanks my friend.
Thank you for sharing this with us . This is beyond amazing . One of your best vlogs especially after seeing how hard its for you to even see a wrecked pieces of a motor from a plane crash and now seeing all these machines intact like this is mind blowing. Thanks for your effort and determination
We appreciate that and greetings from us :)
My grandfather landed D day plus 6. 117th regiment of the 30th infantry division. Pvt. Newport Burl R. I would truly give anything in life to retrace his footsteps. I think of you sir as my family. Love you all much an Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Be proud and we thank YOU for being here with us my friend :)
Good thing they didn't have one of those on Normandy.
Pretty scary machine if you ask me :) Thanks.
My wife did
If mere Snipers were earning the fury of the USS Texas during the landings...we'd be hearing the USS Wisconsin from the other side of the world yelling TEMPER TEMPER (long before it's own instance) when the Texas turned this thing into scrap metal//giant crater. Would have help of course...
Of that was on Normandy we most likely would be speaking German
If there were multiple of these on Normady, the Allies probably wouldn't have attacked it and D-Day would've been somewhere else.
The noise and percussion had to be enormous. What a fantastic tour. Very impressive. Did you say the gun could still fire to this day? Thank you for sharing and yes history is everywhere 😊 .
Yes must have been a scary place to be at when they fired it :) Thanks for being here :)
Oh, I do so love the videos you've done of this site since I'll probably never get a chance to see it in person. Do love the coastal artillery sites and that is one of the premier sites around. It is really an incredible location, and it was so great you were able to take your time this trip and get a tour with your friend explaining so much. Shame when they deactivated the site back in the late 60s that they didn't preserve the ability to keep a lot of the stuff working. Would be great to see the systems moving the rounds and stuff. Still, it is wonderful that they've preserved so much of the site. Thanks for taking us along.
We are honored that you are here with us and your support is greatly appreciated. YOU have made so much of what we do come alive and we thank you for that :)
another great history lesson that you wont see in you're history books or learn about in school,great episode thanks for all the hard work!
Thanks from us :)
GREAT vid! Totally enjoyed it! The installation makes me wonder if it was the inspiration for the movie "The Guns Of Navarone". I kept expecting to see Gregory Peck and David Niven every time you turned a corner. 🤩
Such a great location and we loved to share that with you :)
Eagle eyes is a growing boy. The ship on top of the mountain is a great idea. On a ship, an armor-piercing shell can penetrate to magazine and blow the ship up, like the HMS Hood.
Here they are safe, no armor-piercing shell and penetrate the mountain.
Yes EE is really growing like a horse these days :) So true , ammo pretty safe in there. Thanks Robert for your great support :)
What an unbelievable location!!! Engineering is top notch.
Such a great explore and thanks from us :)
Thank you again for this awesome tour. As others have said, the engineering that went into the gun position is staggering, having adapted it from it's place on the great battleship. And all that effort for it to fire only once during wartime. I now have vowed to see this position myself someday.
I'm still marveling at the effort it must have taken to simply move the gun to it's current position.
All the best to you guys!
Agree Dennis , what a incredible place to see and experience Loved it and thanks from us :)
Outstanding in-depth tour !!!
Thanks so much :)
Wow! Thanks for sharing. What enginuity. I could not imagine designing this monster of a fortification!
Thanks for watching!
This was amazing! The complexities of the machinery astounds me! The Germans were so far advanced in their engineering. Incredible! They are always impressing me with their advances in architecture and engineering. To imagine the manpower used to build such a machine and the manpower used to put it on top of that mountain and make a living space for the crew members. Wow! A truly impressive people. Thank you for taking us back and doing this awesome walkthrough. Take care and stay safe. 💖💯
Couldn't agree more and thanks for being here Julie :)
Fantastic!! What incredible craftsmanship! Thank you very much for sharing, appreciate it a LOT 👍
Greets from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, TW.
Thank you very much!
Man that is a huge complex! Very well built and maintained! Great job bringing this location to us!
Appreciate you watching :)
Another great exploration history hunter I hope all is well with you and your history hunting family
All is fine these day and thanks for being here my friend :)
Its mind-boggling how much effort you have to put in to install all of this.
Indeed and thanks for watching :)
What an incredible opportunity to see the gun placement is enormous and gorgeous. Really nice to see everything thank you History hunter and Eagle Eye's.
We loved it and thanks from us :)
Looking forward to seeing more. Appreciate your time and effort to share history in a special way. ❤😎👍✌️
You bet
Looks like they just were there yesterday! Incredible find!
Great explore and thanks :)
That battleship turret is quite impressive. I wonder why they chose this location for such a large battery that could fire such large shells such distances. Were they guarding a very important channel with this battery? The inner workings were so complete and it was a great tour that you provided for us! I am surprised they had brass powder casings for such a large gun instead of just loading the powder into the breach in flammable bags. The rate of fire of one round every 16 seconds is very surprising for such large guns. I bet it took a lot of hand cranking to move the turret! The engineering to install this thing must have taken quite an effort! That breech block was so large and must weigh tons! I was fascinated by this entire thing! Great tour HH, thanks for taking us along!
They were guarding several huge infrastructures and this is where any allied vessel would have to come to try and take over hence the location. Such a massive and technical install , inside a mountain. Just totally insane much work involved. Thanks Donald for you FANTASTIC support and more to come :)
That is just amazing!! WOW....to build such a complex, use it once; what a waste of money, BUT, it is very impressive on what the Germans did on building that and the transport of the naval guns,etc. To get a private tour of such a complex, how lucky!!! So thankful the gentleman let you on such a tour and that it is being preserved!! At the end, I can just imagine the gun crew or some others having to clean the barrels of those guns. Wonder if they did it on the outside or inside? On a ship, it was from the outside,yes? Still, what an amazing tour, trip this was. Thanks for taking us. Enjoyed it a lot!!
Tank you HH and your friend for this incredible tour.
Thank YOU my friend for your great support :)
Very cool. I wish I could tour something like this myself. I still don't like the internet overall but it does have its up-sides- I get to vicariously see things I otherwise never could. Thanks for the vid, sub earned :D
I understand and thanks for being here with us :)
Very amazing episode - thank You😊
Thank you too!
I have seen the inside of the Battleship Texas. It has 5 turrets with 2 each 35.6-centimeter guns. No one can get the real feel for the size of those guns unless they have seen some in person. They are huge. Glad to see that this one is in such good shape. Thanks for showing them to me. I bet EE could have fit in the breech of one of those guns.
They are really impressive Larry and so glad we could share this with you :)
Haven’t been able to watch yalls videos in a while now. Here goes binge watching all the videos I missed.
Thanks so much for being here with us :)
It is a very impressive installation, thankyou for sharing this incredible tour with us.
Our pleasure!
3:14 Only open when there is no power
Thanks for wathcing.
Hello HH & EE,
It's good that the bunker is preserved in its original state, it shows the madness of warfare.
It's a lot of work to demolish the armament of a bunker, it was often done with bunkers.
So much work involved there yes Oma. Great explore and glad we could share that with you :)
Thank you for the tour ❤
Appreciated :)
Outstanding adventures everyone and thank you for sharing
All that equipment imagine all those men in there working in unison like a living machine to fire that. Gives you an insight to what must have been used in some of those stripped out Bunkers we have been in with you and EE. Particularly those amazing Siemens phones. Thankyou again !!
Just totally awesome it is Stephen and so glad we could share this with you. Thanks so very much from us and be safe out there :)
I think the these were Deutschland 11” guns and I think these were really great triple barrel guns at their time my favorite was Admiral Graff Spee
ok and thank for watching.
Crazy how complexe it is.I wonder if a Naval Captain was in command for that Gun
Great place and thanks for watching :)
Years ago, prior to returning to the university & switching to mathematics I was a project manager for relatively large industrial construction projects. The thing that strikes me is that it took one a rather complete understanding of the interacting systems involved in the final product in order to schedule the trades in the most efficient manner possible. Something like a common house would be easy peasy to manage compared to this thing, especially given the location & site work needed.
Obviously with the exception of the concrete most of what makes up the gun platform was built or manufactured off site but it still needs installed with an order of installation needed. Also, while the concrete work may seem simple, it was not. First, it was no doubt very thick requiring substantially braced forms & it also no doubt had many embedded anchors & etc that needed to be placed prior to placing concrete at precise locations in a manner that prevented dislocation.
Yep, I am impressed like always when these projects are viewed after completion. You can't help thinking how the hell did this become realized, but like always it was step by step & with careful planning.
Thanks for comment and for watching.
Incredible that the mechanism still moves so smoothly that a child can move it...
Yes it works so great actually. Thanks so much for watching :)
3:28 "Stop, Links, Rechts, Heben, Senken, this means it kind of does something" :-) well yes, it actually means "Stop, Left, Right, Up, Down" and indeed it was to operate the artillery shell hoist. The button "Langsam" on top of the console means "Slow" for more accurate operation.
There you go and thanks for watching.
Must have been like the Egyptian’s building the pyramid to taking this gun off the ship piece by piece dragging up a mountain and putting it back together again,and doing the tunnel system as well.
Incredible engineering.
Such incredible build and we loved to share that with you Garry :)
This really cool
Thank so much my friend :)
@ watch you do and finding these things that are a part of history is so very interesting
Appreciated my friend :)
Wow HH, I'd no idea that any of Gneisenau's main turrets had been re-used
Great explore and thanks for being here :)
Hello was this one of the Gneisenau turrets emplaced in Norway near Bergen? Very cool video thanks for posting!
Thanks for watching.
Absolutely mind boggling what they did there. Rip it out of a ship, transport the pieces and put it into a mountain in working condition. People surely shit their pants the first time they fired this. It fires all 3 at the same time? Looks like the lever closes 3 relays. Damn I can't imagine the forces. Beautiful inclination scale. Absolutely beautifully manufactured. I am happy they didn't just destroy all this for the few times it's been fired. At least we marvel at it. Very satisfying, thank you.
This turret originally came from the Gneisenau if I recall right. It was removed when the navy tried to rearm her with 15. Inch guns but the rebuild was cancelled following the battle of the Barents Sea. Gneisenau was ultimately sunk as a block ship.
Thanks for watching :)
I'm just blown away by this. An incredible feat of engineering and determination. Organisation Todt at work.
The real downside to all this, of course, is that none of it would have been possible without slave labour. How many died in the building of this, I wonder?
Thanks for watching :)
Great vid HH 👌 how tall is EE now? You been keeping him in a grow bag at night? 🤣 take it easy fella n EE 💪🙏
EE is growing like a horse indeed and also getting very strong. Thanks for being here :)
So amazing!
Loved that place and thanks :)
Great stuff, thanks.
Thanks for being here :)
That was amazing. Thank you for sure ain't with us.
Such a great place to see. Thanks Bob :)
Coolbeens awesome place really good vid
using brass instead of bags is an interesting choice, i suppose it safer to handle, and prevents over ramming, but i think its harder to handle just because of the sheer size, but i hope they recycle that brass lol
the more i watch the more i am impressed by the technology, the sliding breech is genius and has been adopted EVERYWHERE, Easier to machine than a screw breech, and faster loading.
Thanks for sharing and for watching :)
Oh, these were only 11-inch guns, you should have seen a twin15 inch turret from the Bismark, or tripez
Thanks for watching :)
Yamato. 9 x 18.1...
Yellow shell is HE, blue shell is AP armour piercing, turret is from the ship gneisenau, possibly, barrels 283mm, all 11inch
Thanks for watching :)
Good to know that at least a "small" thing of german battleships survived. This turret once belonged to Gneisenau, didn't it?
Yes and thanks for watching :)
it's crazy to think that people when this gun was firing are still living
Must have been wild yes. Thanks.
I remain flabbergasted with their technology!!!
Such a interesting place that is. Thanks so much :)
Is it still for you operational the mechanical parts at least
It seems like it yes. Thanks for being here :)
Hi was it operated by the navy ? and was it used ?
Used a very few times and used by Marine Artillerie Batterie. Thanks for watching.
that is in excellent condition, i wonder how long after the war this was kept operational
Great explore and thanks for watching :)
FIRST! great videoo
Appreciated my friend and greetings from us :)
How long did it take for them to build this ?
Couple of years. Thanks.
You should tour one of the Battle Ships in the US if you think that is big.
Most likely so and thanks for watching.
Maybe this is a wierd to ask. But if they had no light in the gun powder room, how did they handle the powder ??
Well that is what we have been told. Thanks for watching.
Isnt this one of the turrets from heavy battlecruiser gneisenau?
Yes it is and thanks
The electrical equipment and cables looks like things used on board of a ship.
yes it is from s a vessel..
awesome
Thank you John from us :)
Amazing. Just amazing.
appreciated my friend
How did they get this of a ship and get it up there😮
Well took some work for sure. Thanks :)
Like admiral graf spee' s turret
Yes and thanks for watching :)
@WW2HistoryHunter :)
I do not see a link to the first video.
There is now :)
This looks like one of those things were you see it and are like "wow that would be so effective then you read about it and find out one drunk sailor fell over on the fire controls at the wrong time
The shell then jammed the guns so it could only shoot at max elevation and then they all surrendered and youre like "well im glad we won but.... Im disapointed"
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plz Sir also mention location or whereabouts
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Amazing this emplacement still exists in pristine condition.
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Funny thing you would have thought all the copper etc would be long gone , I can’t believe how complete it seems, mind blowing in the UK there would be nothing left the rag man would have it!
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Where is this gun located?
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If we would want to visit, where is it located at ? What are it's open hours ?
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The US has the somewhat same thing. it's called the USS No-Go. The Fat Electrician has the best way of talking about it
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@WW2HistoryHunter I like learning about old history. Dark or not
I counted 3 times the Gneisenau fired its main guns.
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Actually the ship was in action in 1940 ageist allied convoys, and in sinking a British armed merchant cruiser, and an aircraft carrier, so this turret saw a lot of action before being
emplaced here.
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" Holy Pancake" Batman! lol. These were medium calibre naval guns 2.8 cm ( 283 mm or 11.141"). But I have to admit the German engineering is superb. Take a look at pictures of the 17" naval gun barrels and shells outside the Imperial War Museum in London if you want to see a BIG gun lol I didn't know these were taken from the Gniesneau ( not sure I've got the spelling right) did they take them off her to up gun the ship to a bigger calibre for the secondary armament do you know. Or is there another story? Thank you for the tour of this incredible gunnery site. Whereabouts is this please?
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These is said to be the turret of a WunderWaffe
The Landcrusier P1000 Ratte
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Sometimes I wonder how God's name.Did the germans lose the war with all this incredible equipment. I know it's just lack of production.The numbers weren't there.If they were there with tanks and guns and jets and airplanes , germany would have conquered the world.
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