After World War I the secondary armament tended to be mounted in turrets on the upper deck and around the superstructure.This allowed a wide field of fire and good protection without the negative points of casemates.Increasingly through the 1920s and 1930s the secondary guns were seen as a major part of the anti-aircraft battery, with high-angle, dual-purpose guns increasingly adopted.…
The Union Army used three smaller casemates to hold political prisoners during the same period.Various people wrote graffiti inside the cell doors and on the inner walls of "Casement #11" during the 1860s.…
I suppose he walks up and down the whole length of the six casemates.Cited from With Frederick the Great, A Story of the Seven Years' War, by G.A. Henty
As many as five artillery casemates were planned, but only three were built.In 1939 work was undertaken to link the observation post, 75mm and 155mm casemates by underground passages in a manner similar to Maginot worsk.…
The Technical Department had initially proposed mounting the secondary guns in single and twin turrets, but it was determined that this arrangement was not flexible enough.Instead, they were mounted in casemates in eight groups of three guns.The ships were long between perpendiculars, long at the waterline, and long overall.…
The two casemates flank the main block a few hundred meters to either side.A project to link the casemates to the central block was never started.The 1940 manning of the ouvrage under the command of Lieutenant Vaillant comprised 68 men and 1 officer of the 156th Fortress Infantry Regiment.…
The barracks were torn down, and the huge pine-logs of the rampart thrown into a heap.The dead bodies that filled the casemates were added to the mass, and fire was set to the whole.…Cited from Montcalm and Wolfe, by Francis Parkman
It is of brick, and rendered bomb-proof by sand-bags placed five or six feet deep in front of the walls.The rebels built eleven casemates, and our forces have built two more since they have occupied the fort.…
The northern section around Morteau consisted of four casemates, of fourteen proposed.The southern section around Pontarlier consisted of three completed of six casemates proposed.…
The fort's entrance is on the plateau behind the fort.Two additional 105mm casemates, each with their own magazine, were planned but never built.A variety of smaller blockhouses, observation posts, anti-tank lines and infantry shelters are in the immediate area, none connected directly to Champillon.…
Barri was dismantled in 1925 and both no longer exist.Each of these had two guns in casemates located on Ford Island.…
The two casemates flank the main block a few hundred meters to either side.A project to link the casemates to the central block was never started.…
The gate consists of only one passage of about four meters wide.On both sides of the passage three casemates are located, so the gate in total has seven openings.On top of the facade of the gate can be found a series of merlons, divided into two parts by the central elevated part of the gate.…
He tells me that the commandant says that one list must be made.On this the orders of each of the casemates must be put down separately.A sergeant will go out every day with it.…Cited from With Frederick the Great, A Story of the Seven Years' War, by G.A. Henty
Palladas main armament consisted of two 45-calibre guns in single turrets fore and aft.Her eight gun were mounted in casemates on the sides of the ship's hull.Anti-torpedo boat defense was provided by 20 50-calibre guns; eight of these were mounted in casemates on the side of the hull and in the superstructure.…
A supplementary shell of concrete was placed over the masonry to protect against the new artillery.In some cases, entirely new concrete casemates were built, leaving the stone casemates alone.The most vulnerable locations in the fort were the magazines, which in the modernized forts were dispersed and more deeply buried.…
The fort featured two Mougin casemates mounting 155mm guns, as well as an initial18 guns on the rampart and 8 guns in a separate battery.Two casemates in the main fort were planned to provide indirect fire.The fort is roughly pentagonal, and features two double caponiers and a single caponier.…
Twenty-one 5 in /51 cal (127 mm) guns were fitted initially on Arkansas and Wyoming.Sixteen of these were mounted in individual casemates below the main deck.This limited their use as they became so wet at speed as to keep one-third of them useless.…
Bayans main armament consisted of two 45-calibre guns in single turrets fore and aft.Her eight guns were mounted in casemates on the sides of the ship's hull.Anti-torpedo boat defense was provided by twenty two 50-calibre guns; eight of these were mounted in casemates on the side of the hull and in the superstructure.…
By evening third-line casemates in the central portion of the front were being captured or were surrendering.The most significant resistance was mounted by Casemates Marckolsheim Sud and Nord, but Sud was captured by evening and Nord the next morning.…
