WWII Bunkers ruins, La Grande Côte beach, Charente- Maritime, France. Photograph courtesy of: ©JBen
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For Memorial Day, see the haunting relics that World War II left behind.
During World War II, German Nazis built concrete bunkers up and down the west coasts of Norway and France. These fortifications were known collectively as the Atlantic Wall, and it was this barrier that the Allies breached during the invasion of Normandy.
Seventy years later, much of the Atlantic Wall and many other WWII bunkers still stand—mainly because they’re “just incredibly difficult to get rid of,” says photographer Jonathan Andrew, who took the photos in this gallery…
Read Full Article And View Photo Gallery, National Geographic
D-Day’s Legacy Sands, Omaha Beach; By Earle F. McBride & M. Dane Picard; Coastal Care’s Beach of the Month June 2012
Before dawn on June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops began storming the shores of Normandy, France, in what would be the turning point of World War II. Troops poured out of planes and off ships along an 80-kilometer stretch of coastline. Omaha Beach sand retains evidence of the Invasion…
Coastal Erosion Exposes Britain’s WWII Defenses, The Telegraph UK (08-16-2015)
