15 cm C/36 naval gun - Walkaround - Longues-sur-Mer battery Normandy.

The Longues-sur-Mer battery was a WW II German artillery
battery constructed near the French village of
Longues-sur-Mer in Normandy.
The battery was sited on a 60 m cliff overlooking the sea
It was build in 1943 and would have four casemates of regelbau type M272
with a 150mm TK C/36 marine gun, it would be named WN48
It was located between the Allied landing beaches of Gold and Omaha
and shelled both beaches on D-Day.

Fire control was managed from a regelbau type M262A two-story command
post located 300m in front of the guns on the cliff edge.

During the build up to D-Day the battery was attacked by aircraft
on several occasions, but little damage was inflicted on the casemates.
During D-Day, WN48 engaged with several warships like the
British cruisers Ajax and Argonaut.
The French cruisers Georges Leygues and Montcalm, assisted by
USS Arkansas returned fire on the battery.
The return fire knocked out one casemate and damaged two others.

The battery had little impact on the Allied landings and was captured pretty easy
on June 7 and played no further part in the Normandy campaign.

The 15 cm TbtsK C/36 was a German medium-caliber naval gun deployed
on Type 1936A destroyers during WWII.

The C/36 gun was developed in 1932 after the Reichsmarine approved
a new program for 1,500 tonnes destroyers.
These were to have main guns of a 12.7-centimetre caliber,
in order to match or exceed the firepower of other countries destroyers.

The guns caused serious issues when actually placed upon ships however,
as they added significant weight high up on the ships.
To deal with this increase in weight, the destroyers had one gun removed,
sometimes with a twin gun being used in order to keep five guns.

The C/36 would see service from 1942, until the end of the war.

The C/36 gun was installed in a number of static gun batteries for coastal defence.
In Normandy, the Longues-sur-Mer battery had four steel-reinforced concrete
casemates each with a C/36 naval gun.
During D-Day 3 guns were knocked out and only the fourth gun
was still active and was left undamaged.
The first gun was later blown up in a ammunition explosion,
which destroyed the casemate and the gun.

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