01 Heavy Mortar Casement 135mm	02 Heavy Mortar Casement 135mm	03 Heavy Mortar Casement 135mm Being Traversed	04 Heavy Mortar Casement 135mm Being Traversed
05 Heavy Mortar Casement 135mm	06 Dual Heavy Mortar Turret 135mm	07 Dual 135mm Heavy Mortar Turret Diagram	08 Dual 135mm Heavy Mortar Turret Controls
09 Grenade Launcher	10 Dual 135mm Heavy Mortar Turret Controls	11 Dual 135mm Heavy Mortar Turret Traverse Gears	12 Dual 135mm Heavy Mortar Turret Controls

Actually these are two restored 135mm Heavy Mortars. One is a casement gun in the side of Bock 8 that the volunteers swivel and elevate under power. The other is a powered turret. The guide showed us the controls for raising and lowering the turret, then she turned on the power, raised it, rotated it, then dropped it back down. After we saw the operation from the inside we walked outside and hiked up to the top of the bunker and we got to see them do it again from the outside. It was pretty neat!

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