Some subterranean hideouts had sleeping quarters and mess halls as well as defense weaponry. They constructed the coastal Atlantic Wall with millions of tons of cement and steel barricades, fortified with observation towers, encampment bunkers, pillboxes, gunnery emplacements, machine gun nests and impenetrable fortifications to repel attacks. To deter Britain’s anticipated attacks from the sea, German forces constructed fortifications along the Western Front known as “The Atlantic Wall.” The Nazi Military Machine secured 2,400 miles of coastline facing Britain from the Bay of Biscay to Arctic Ocean, in France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, and Norway, with a force of 300,000 troops. The continent was still reeling from the Great War that had ended in 1918-a mere two decades earlier. The Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and by 1944 already occupied several European nations. ![]() The daring surgical strike against German-Occupied France was the catalyst that deterred Adolf Hitler’s forces from further entrapping Europe in deadly quicksand of possible all-out defeat. On D-Day, seventy years ago, the Invasion of Normandy changed the course of the World War.
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