GERMANY'S WESTWALL — Western Front operationsJn the Second World War center around the two chains of fortifications on the Franco-German frontier. Scenes above are in connection with the Nazi 1 Westwall, officially named the Limes Line by Fuehrer Hitler and often called the Siegfried Line. The wall, stretching for 400 miles and facing the French
Maginot Line, is 30 miles deep In places. Fop panel, gun crew spreads wire netting over dugout. Wire will be covered with grass. Left center, not gravestones, but concrete barricades against tanks. Right center, huge sound detector, to warn of approaching enemy aircraft. Bottom, anti-aircraft gun occupying a strategic point in the wall.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 October 1939, Page 7
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