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8 JHE COAST ARTILLERY JOURNAL July-August batteries and 62 guns. Thirty of these guns in the inne: ring were 105mm in caliber, and there was one flak tower with 128mm guns in this ring. Between the inner and outer rings were two lines of batteries in an intermediate ring, in the north and southeast sectors of the Hamburg defense. These are shown in the ~Iashington defense in the east and southwest sectors. This broken ring consisted of 8 positions with 14 batterie:; and 70 guns, three of the batteries being 105mm railway mounts. Again on the periphery of the defense, there ,vere t,'\'o thin lines in an exterior gun ring. The major part of these in the Hamburg defense were toward the north, across the line of the British night attacks. These exterior guns were placed principally for throwing up barrage fire usually as a deterrent. Twenty-six barrage fire lines were established oyer Hamburg for use during poor visibility and when the radars were jammed. About 25% of all firing by night was by barrage fire, although this was considered relatively ineffective. As I remember during our operational planning with the Headquarters of the Eighth Air Force we cOllsidered barrage fire only 10% as effective as continuously pointed fire in producing casualties. In planning the above defense the German practice was to make 88mm (Flak 37) gun positions (one or more batteries) mutually supporting at a maximum of 4400 yards, 88mm (Flak 41) gun positions at 4900 yards, 105mm batteries at 4500 yards, and 128mm batteries at 6000 yards. "GROSSE BATTERIEN" A high concentration of bursts was secured by having several batteries in one position, this giving rise to the "grosse batterien" that intelligence per
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