Hitler's Atlantic Wall: Pas de Calais
Paul Williams
Language: English
Pages: 110
ISBN: B01LP7VHQM
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This well-illustrated book describes the massive effort that the occupying Nazi forces put into the construction of the Eastern section of the Atlantic Wall. While the D-Day invasion was unaffected by the fortifications in this area, they still posed a significant threat. This came from the mighty gun batteries (such as Batteries Todt and Lindemann) that threatened Channel shipping and the South Coast of England, and, while isolated from the main Allied advance, the Festung ports of Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk were denied to Allied use. This was of major strategic significance as the lines of supply were becoming ever longer and more vulnerable.Using rare archive material, this book takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the coast that Hitler was wrongly convinced would be the site of the Allied landings. Hitler's Atlantic Wall - Pas de Calais tells the history of how and why the giant batteries were built, the origins of their weaponry and the ingenious engineering and military operations that defeated them finally.
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Essentially two opposing views of how a battle might progress. Rommel’s chief of staff has testified that Rommel himself wanted the entirety of the forces at his disposal massed to repel an invasion, claiming the ‘Desert Fox’ could not envisage victory if the Germans were spread out defending a line with divisions kept in reserve. Rundstedt, like Sodenstern, was clearly more optimistic, perhaps because he had not had first-hand experience of the Allies’ air power. In any case, he did not accept.
Procurement of the N.S.D.A.P. (the National Socialist German Workers Party.) In 1932, he had already amalgamated the Construction Engineers and Countrymen League and the Progressive League of German Architects and Engineers with the Technical Bureau, resulting in the National Socialist German Technical Union under his leadership. In 1936 the Technical Bureau was raised to the Central Technical Bureau in recognition of its meritorious service. In the meantime. Dr Todt entered that field of.
Been done, an outer mould was built around the reinforcements and the concrete poured in. This was done in a single, continuous operation that went on day and night, so as to create a bunker consisting of a single block of concrete without any seams or apparent weak points. Slave labour, armed with shovels, would help channel the concrete down chutes where it was then compacted with jack hammers. This meant that the whole process had to be carried out on site and traces of the manufacturing.
Armoury, a canteen, workshops and a store for fuel. Ventilation shafts also played a vital role in a casemate as air inside the emplacement would be sucked out when the gun fired and had to be replenished. A lift shaft and stairwell connected the lower level to the ammunition room which contained the shells for the gun and an offset room for the charge cartridges. Before the concrete was poured, an overhead pulley system was anchored into the rebars that was to form the ceiling of the shell room.
Retreating Germans but improvised repairs were made on one bridge overnight and by the third day, some transport had been able to cross the river in support of the infantry There was no stopping the Canadians now and once over the Liane, 9 Brigade moved south along the river’s west bank and the Glengarry Highlanders took the suburb of Outreau despite coming under heavy shelling from a fortified position on top of the peninsular between the river and the sea. The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa.