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Ijmuiden clusterbunkers ( Atlantic Wall )
Atlantic Wall coastal defense Ijmuiden At strategic positions 'fortresses' were erected: clusters of bunkers, command posts and artillery, sometimes linked by narrow underground tunnels. Fortresses were designed to be able to hold out against an enemy siege for months without help. All civilian houses and infrastructure that stood in the way were cleared, and garrisons were under explicit orders to fight to the last man. One of these sites was IJmuiden. The cluster of bunkers that are today climbed by boulderers formed only a small, if vital, part of Fortress IJmuiden. Together, they formed Coastal Battery Heerenduin. The most impressive of Heerenduin's bunkers, now dubbed Amsterdoomed, was the battery's command post. Over 2300 metric meters of concrete were used to build it, and it housed communications and distance measuring equipment. Only the top two rooms are accessible, the much larger lower level is now buried by sand. The other four large bunkers, with their imposing roofs, are all of the same design. Their 2 meter-thick walls and roof shielded large 17-centimeter guns with a 20 kilometer reach. Other fortifications at this site were ammunition storages, barracks and light artillery pivots. The bunkers of IJmuiden are special not just because they make excellent bouldering objects with great views. Most Atlantikwall bunkers have been razed, closed to the public or are overgrown. Others are in poor shape or badly soiled. But many hundreds still exist, in Holland <b>...</b>
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WW2 - Atlantic Wall
Atlantic Wall As early as December 1941 Hitler had ordered that plans be drawn up for the construction of an Atlantic Wall to ensure protection of the Atlantic coasts of Europe from attack by sea. Work began in the spring of 1942, and by April of the following year almost a quarter of a million conscript labourers were at work on the Wall's construction. From the tip of Norway to the Spanish border every beach was to be made impassable and a line of impregnable fortifications built. To engage warships offshore, and to maul the fleets of transports in the event of invasion, naval guns were to be housed in indestructable bunkers. Behind the line, tracks were to be laid for railway guns, many capable of throwing shells as far as England. In the Autumn of 1943 Hitler became convinced that an invasion in the West had become inevitable. He ordered Rommel to undertake an inspection of the Atlantic Wall defences and to prepare for what he believed would be the decisive engagement of Allied and German arms. Believing also that the invasion would be launched across the Straights of Dover against the Pas de Calais, Hitler ordered priority to be given to this sector over other sectors of the front. By mid 1944, the Atlantic Wall was nearing completion only in the sector of the Pas de Calais. In other sectors it was still far from complete. It was in the incomplete and weakly defended Normandy sector that, on June 6th 1944, the Allied invasion was to take place.
GERMAN FORTIFICATIONS - The Atlantic Wall
OSS Film uses a German Newsreel of European fortifications to prepare and motivate Allied invaders for what they will face during D-Day. Check out www.militaryconnection.com
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Atlantic Wall Museum, Oostende, Belgium, Wał Atlantycki
Atlantic Wall Museum, Oostende, Belgium, Wał Atlantycki, lipiec 2009
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Project Normandy Storming the Atlantic Wall
0630, June 6th 1944. Omaha Beach, Fox Red sector. Baker Company of the 2nd Ranger Battalion. WARNING: CONTAINS SWEARING!
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Ideology´s Atlantic wall - When Reason & Sanity Failed - Religion Too.
I contrast - through a short tour one of Nazi Germany´s coastal defences WW 2 - how the world can, and has, changed and improved from insane ideology, political and religious. Yet one dangerous threat remains, collectively superstitious / religious cults, from Christianity to Islam & radical Judaism. This - for me is the current "soft" war, as opposed to hot or cold war, in order to preserve science and reason, for the good of all human kind. We cannot permit a new ideological Atlantic wall.
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Second World War Atlantic Wall by Belgian Tram
Hitler's Atlantic Wall was meant to prevent the invasion of occupied Europe in the Second World War. It is best preserved just outside Ostend and can be visited by taking part of the longest tram line in the world
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The Atlanticwall 02 (Raversijde,Belgium)
The Atlantic Wall museum,where the smell of D-Day is still present Het openluchtmuseum Atlantikwall,waar je door de open of onderaardse gangen tot bij de goed bewaarde stellingen van de Duitse kustverdedingswerken uit WO I en WO II komt: authentieke voorwerpen, heringerichte bunkers,artilleriestukken en zoeklichten wachten je op ! Au musee du mur de l'Atlantique,vous pouvez retrouver l'ambiance du jour le plus long Das Freilichtmuseum Atlantikwall, um die atmosphare des 'LangstenTages' zu erleben ! (Tour combined of WO I and WO II, takes 120 min )
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