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(Message started by: The mad viking on Jun 10^th, 2006, 4:40pm)

Title: Some pics from Drøbak and Oscarsborg Fortress upda
Post by The mad viking on Jun 10^th, 2006, 4:40pm

http://madviking.myphotoalbum.com/albums.php

Album 3

http://privat.bluezone.no/jan.arild.aaserud/www_docs/blucher.htm

Here you can read some exiting stuff about the Blucher and operation weserubung

Title: Re: Some pics from Drøbak and Oscarsborg Fortress
Post by Kevin_M on Jun 10^th, 2006, 5:22pm

Sven, is this a cod or a salmon they were cleaning for dinner?

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;)

Title: Re: Some pics from Drøbak and Oscarsborg Fortress
Post by The mad viking on Jun 10^th, 2006, 5:25pm

Whitehead torpedo model VIII dated from 1911 with torpedohead for target practising

Title: Re: Some pics from Drøbak and Oscarsborg Fortress
Post by Kevin_M on Jun 10^th, 2006, 6:12pm

Sven,

That Krupp nameplate, is this the same one?

To an extent unprecedented in the history of industry, a corporation had become an integral part of a warlord's apparatus....two months before the invasion of Denmark, Krupp's Copenhagen agent was sending OKW [Oberkommando der Wehrmacht: General Headquarters of the German Armed Forces —WHS] coded information on the Danish armaments establishments.
He was working under intense pressure; Hitler's formal directive for the conquest of Scandinavia (Weserübung) was not issued until three weeks later, and when the fleet sailed north at 5:15 a.m. on April 9, 1940, Krupp's representative in Norway was caught off-guard. Fifteen miles south of Oslo, where the fifty-mile Oslo Fjord narrows perceptibly, stood the eighty-five-year-old fortress of Oscarborg. Essen's man in the Norwegian capital had been ordered to send [the] OKW detailed information on the defenders' strongpoints, but in his haste he had overlooked that Oscarborg was armed with ancient 28-cm Krupp cannon. Despite their age they were in superb condition. In a blaze of deadly fire they crippled one heavy cruiser, Lützow, and sank another, Blücher, with a loss of 1,600 seamen and several Gestapo officials who where on their way to proclaim Vidkung Quisling dictator of Norway.

Title: Re: Some pics from Drøbak and Oscarsborg Fortress
Post by The mad viking on Jun 10^th, 2006, 6:23pm

Hope im not missunderstand you Kevin

"That Krupp nameplate, is this the same one? "

Same as what ?

Svenn

Title: Re: Some pics from Drøbak and Oscarsborg Fortress
Post by Kevin_M on Jun 10^th, 2006, 6:31pm

You took a picture of:

Fried Krupp, Essen

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and

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Is that the same cannon talked about in the article?

sorry, I had computer problems

Title: Re: Some pics from Drøbak and Oscarsborg Fortress
Post by The mad viking on Jun 10^th, 2006, 6:42pm

yess the nameplate was on the canon "Moses and Aron"identical
If i remember correct this plate is on the canon "Moses"

Does that help you Kevin?

Svenn

Title: Re: Some pics from Drøbak and Oscarsborg Fortress
Post by Kevin_M on Jun 10^th, 2006, 6:48pm

Yep, I wondered where the nameplate came from. I found that little history article about Oscarborg and the cannon there, but don't know if it's the same one. And they're still in superb condition.

Good job Oscarborg!

Title: Re: Some pics from Drøbak and Oscarsborg Fortress
Post by The mad viking on Jun 11^th, 2006, 5:39am

http://privat.bluezone.no/jan.arild.aaserud/www_docs/blucher.htm

some exiting story about the heavy cruiser Blucher and Oscarsborg

Svenn

Title: Re: Some pics from Drøbak and Oscarsborg Fortress
Post by vig on Jun 11^th, 2006, 8:25am

Cool pictures Svenn!

Title: Re: Some pics from Drøbak and Oscarsborg Fortress
Post by Charlie on Jun 11^th, 2006, 12:35pm

Great stuff Svenn. http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/photo flower.gif

Nice history too. You have to wonder about the German surface navy. It's understandable getting clobbered by the Royal Navy, but it seemed to take a real beating wherever it went most of the time. 8)

You gotta love it that you sent the Blucher to the bottom with Krupp weaonry. http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/victory.gif http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/svenn.gif

Charlie