#atlantic wall

[faroukmarduk]

Capbreton, France Atlantic coast, August 2008, Canon 400D, efs 17-55mm f2/8 is usm, 24mm, f8.0, 8s

Shooting a long pause photography on a sandy beach is tricky !

[theworldatwar]

German soldiers rush from their barracks during a drill on the French coast - date unknown

[carbone14]

Mise en service de la batterie Lindemann en présence de l'amiral Otto Schultze – Le mur de l'Atlantique – Cap Blanc Nez – Sangatte – Pas-de-Calais – France – 1942

Photographe : Kuhn

©Bundesarchiv - Bild 101I-364-2314-16A

[deutschland-im-krieg]

The Schleswig-Holstein battery was renamed by Adolf Hitler’s personal order to Lindemann in honour of  Ernst Lindemann, the captain of the battleship Bismarck, who went down with the ship on 27.5.41 in the Atlantic. Adolf Hitler personally ordered the concrete casemates for these guns (earlier the guns were located behind armoured shields 50mm thick). The battery was part of the Atlantikwall (Atlantic Wall) and armed with one 400mm (16 inch) SKC/34 cannons, which were previously manufactured for battleships of the never built H type. The team of one 40cm gun numbered 8 officers and 60 enlisted men. The battery was seized by Canadian troops on 26/9/44. Sangatte, Pas-de-Calais, France, 19/9/42

[telephomas]

[kontextmaschine]

By D-Day the Atlantic Wall defenses had been reinforced several times, even taking seriously the need to muster and build up stockpiles in Britain an attack could have broken through the coastal defenses earlier.

…but those defenses were still enough to force a concentration of forces into a single spearpoint, which inland reserves could have mobilized to encircle and neutralize."… until they were redeployed to the Eastern Front. It really was Russians fighting in the east that decided the European theater of WWII.

Of course, Stalin exerted whatever pressure he could to bring the West into the fight ASAP, but letting the Red Army bear the burden and pay the costs of attritting the Reich away and then only afterwards sweeping through a hollowed-out Western Front as the preferable option to surrender to was a critical part of Anglo-American grand strategy.

Even with that, they still then had to grind out a Cold War evenly matched enough to last half a century.

[jadafitch]

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[faroukmarduk]

Capbreton, France, november 2008, f8 1,3s, 16 mm

[theworldatwar]

A German sentry scans the horizon watching for an invasion that must surely come as he stands guard on the Atlantic Wall - exact date unknown

[carbone14]

Batterie allemande de 150 mm à Longues-sur-Mer – Mur de l'Atlantique – Calvados – Normandie – France – 20 juillet 2010

©Stéphane x

[nishinoyaismycutie]

I START ASCENDING WHENEVER I HEAR TS

I’m dying!… gonna go listen to it again😋👏

some random shit but yeah hope whoever sees this has a good day/night or evening!!

[bootyliciousbeta]

Just finished a sweet practice sesh on my HSS fender that my lovely amazing @bootyliciousbaaabe decorated!

Any recs for songs you guys wanna hear me play? Private concerts are on the table (for the price of redbull and pizza :3)

[impala-dreamer]

downside of being super awesome and painting your house in all sorts of amazingly beautiful and funky colors:

trying to take passport photos and realizing there is not a single white wall in your house.

[acourtoflight]

Just imagined Elriel’s first kiss happening while they’re flying over Velaris…Azriel making Elain laugh, her looking into his eyes as the wind blows around them and messes with Elain’s hair, Az holding her tighter to him…walk with me

[victoryrifle]

felt like i was in fallout irl

[faroukmarduk]