[Leica] [IMG]s - PESO The Atlantic Wall - its in the UK!

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Peter, isn't it great we don't need those sort of things any more thanks 
to to the EU and the seventy years of peace we've grown up with.... :-)

Douglas

On 26/02/2017 00:26, Peter Dzwig wrote:
> Thought this might interest you all. Near my house is a replica of the WWII
> Atlantic Wall. See here:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/Atlantic+Wall/DSCF1112.jpg.html>
>
> It's built on the side of a hill with two walls one behind the other as 
> some of
> the Normandy defences were. This is the downhill side of the lower wall, 
> which
> is the most  massive, although it doesn't look it in this perspective 
> because
> there is growth and more recent earth around it.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/Atlantic+Wall/DSCF1112.jpg.html>
>
> This is the wall further along in cross-section. To get a sense of scale. 
> The
> step is a firing step to fire **down** on approaching soldiers, so is 
> about 5 ft
> high, enabling you to lean over and take a shot.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/Atlantic+Wall/DSCF1118.jpg.html>
>
> This is the wall viewed from up the hill, between the two walls (the second
> isn't in this sequence). The hole in the middle is where the steel gates 
> were
> before they were attacked with whatever devices they were testing at the 
> time.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/Atlantic+Wall/DSCF1109.jpg.html>
>
> These are some of the "dragon's teeth" anti-tank defences. They were 
> originally
> taller but have accrued a lot of earth around them.
>
> C&Cs are welcome as ever. I know they are washed out :-).
>
> Peter
>
> PS I am having ISP issues and hope that this makes it in one piece