"Secret wall that played vital D-Day role in defeating Nazis" Topic
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| Tango01 | 28 Jul 2014 9:31 p.m. PST |
"Look closely and you can see the holes where explosives were planted and at one point there is a massive gap where it was blown apart by a tank. The historian and archeologist Tony Pollard stands by the gap and explains the importance of it all: this wall, he says, helped defeat the Nazis. The wall was built at Sheriffmuir, in the hills above Dunblane, in 1943 as preparations were being made to invade Europe. The problem was the Nazis had built a formidable line of concrete defences from Norway all the way to the Spanish border and if D-Day was to have any chance of success, the British and their allies would have to get over those defences…"
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 ochoin  | 29 Jul 2014 5:36 a.m. PST |
Of course, Sheriffmuir (or Sheriff Muir)has other significance, being the site of the inconclusive 1715 Battle of Sheriffmuir (part of the Jacobite rising). |
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