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Batteria Mameli

Batteria Mameli, Military fortification in Genoa, Italy.

Batteria Mameli stands on the hill called "Vetta" above Pegli, built by the military engineers in 1935 and armed with three 152/50 anti-ship guns on open emplacements. Around them remain two observation bunkers, a fourth platform for illumination fire and a "Todt" casemate, a reinforced-concrete shelter with a shell-shaped roof added after 1943.

Built in 1935 by the military engineers on the "Vetta" of Pegli and armed with three 152/50 anti-ship guns, the battery was enlarged in 1941 with bigger ammunition depots and a casemate for an automatic weapon. After 8 September 1943 it passed to Nazi-Fascist forces, which protected one gun with a concrete "shell" casemate; it then ceased to operate.

The site now holds a museum and the headquarters of the Coordinamento Ligure Studi Militari, set in a garden dedicated to the fallen of Nassirya. Since 2011 an adventure park has run in the surrounding wood, suspended among the trees, which helped clear the area of decay and vandalism and brought school groups and associations back to the hill.

The fortification grounds are open to visitors and offer both historical information and recreational activities including an adventure park. A museum on site provides context about the structure and its role in regional defense.

The 14 June 1940 exchange is often reduced to the hit on the Albatros, but the battery fired 64 rounds and only one struck the destroyer's aft boiler room, killing 12 French sailors. The same action saw the armed pontoon GM-194 fire two rounds from its twin 381 mm turret.

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