Ground observers were able to engage six German batteries but air observation allowed another 22 to be bombarded.

However, the German batteries were forced to move away after being surprised by counterfire from the 15 cm.

These were the last shots of the war fired against German batteries on the Belgian coast.

The German batteries were badly hit and the commander of a battery killed.

Block 6 destroyed a German battery with artillery fire.

He could only afford to send one company to attack the German battery.

Soviet intelligence personnel had located the German batteries and observation posts a few weeks before, in preparation for the attack.

Return fire from the Texas knocked out the German battery.

The German coastal batteries were destroyed even before the landing; a small bridgehead has already been formed.

German batteries were eliminated as a threat by infantry capturing them.