Once of the first responses by the British High Command to the invasion crisis of 1940 was what became known as the Emergency Coastal Battery Defence Programme. This initiative saw ex-Royal Naval guns that had been taken from ships scrapped after the First World War and put into storage, hastily brought back into service and placed in pairs as vulnerable points along the coast. These emergency batteries tended to conform to a similar layout and while they were often rudimentary at first, over time they developed into substantial sites.
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