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Learning about Atlantic Wall - Example of a Coastal Defense Position - Did you know that?

General Overview on the Atlantic Wall (in France) and a more detailed look on how the 348th infantry division was setup to defend their coastal area. 

The Atlantic Wall or “Atlantikwall” in German was an extensive system of coastal defences and fortifications reaching from the South of...read more

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Guernsey's Fort Richmond, a former gun battery used in WWII by the Nazis to keep out the British, for sale for just £2m

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The Fort has been many things in its history. It was built in the 1850's as a military garrison, before more recently being used as social housing and as a base for island community groups.

Fort Richmond on Guernsey was built as a gun battery with high granite walls by the British to...read more

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German Coastal Defenses (Military Intelligence Service)

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Germany is at present committed to a strategic defensive on her Western Front, and in recent months she has had to spur herself to feverish activity to add new fortifications on that front. Despite this recent emphasis on fortifications, however, there is no factual
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 HQ Batallón) November 02, 2014

U-Boat Base (3 - Nazi Megastructures - National Geographic)

A submarine pen (U-Boot-Bunker in German) is a bunker which is designed to protect submarines from air attack. The term is generally applied to submarine bases constructed during World War II, particularly in Germany and the occupied countries which were also known as U-boat pens (after the...read more

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Atlantic Wall (1 - Nazi Megastructures - National Geographic)

The Atlantic Wall (German: Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1945 along the western coast of Europe and Scandinavia as a defense against an anticipated Allied invasion of the mainland continent from Great Britain.

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 HQ Batallón) October 22, 2014

The Maginot Line (History Channel)

This French line of defense was constructed along the country’s border with Germany during the 1930s and named after Minister of War André Maginot. It primarily extended from La Ferté to the Rhine River, though sections also stretched along the Rhine and the Italian frontier. The main...read more

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 HQ Batallón) September 13, 2014

The West Wall as of September 1939

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An overview of the 'Siegfried Line' as of the start of the war - not so much a line as a series of separated limesread more

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