After this siege, Dora was used only once – when suppressing Warsaw Uprising in October 1944. As it turned out later, one of the shells pierced a rock mass 30 m thick.
Dora’s fire was directed against forts BB-30, BB-35, as well as underground ammunition depots located in rock massifs. The gun entered service in early June and fired a total of fifty-three 7-ton rounds. A gun with a total mass of more than 1000 tons was secretly delivered from Germany and placed in a special shelter, carved out in a rock mass in the Bakhchisarai region. Sevastopol also the first time were used superheavy 800 mm gun class ” Dora “. Super-heavy siege weapons were also used: Most of the batteries consisted of conventional large-caliber field artillery, including the 210mm heavy howitzers, and the 300mm and 350mm heavy howitzers from WWI.
In total, over 200 batteries of heavy artillery were located on a perimeter of 22 km.
To destroy the forts, the Germans used siege artillery of large calibers. The land defense of Sevastopol was based on a series of large permanent structures (artillery forts ). Comments June 1942 Second assault 2nd Assault on Sevastopol
