28cm K5  (E) Ausf D
Musée du Mur de I'Atlantique - Audinghen, Pas de Calais
Extracted from the book : Leopold by Jan Coen WIjnstok / ISBN-83-920254-5-8)
In 1980, a 31 m long railway gun was discovered  behind a factory building of the state artillery workshop in Tarbes, in the south of France. It turned out to be a 28cm K5 (E). There was interest from quite a few museums, but in the end it want to the Musée du Mur de I'Atlantique (Atlantic Wall Museum) on the Channel Coast. Back in place where K5's were frequently used to shell Great Britain from prepared positions, complete with bunkers for protection and hiding. How or why the gun wound up in Tarbes is unknown. Not even where it came from is clear, best guess is that it is one of the guns from Eisenbahnbatteries 749 that were overrun by the Allies near Montelimar, in the Rhone-valley. The gun stationed on the Channel Coast retreated to The Netherlands in September 1944 and were destroyed there. The gun was manufactured by KRUPP in 1941, when a total of seven guns was delivered. It is an Ausf D which has the aiming stand in a high position. There was no transport cover for the aiming stand, as on 'Leopold'. The gun was repainted green and all the lettering has gone so no carriage number is known.