"When is the last time a Vauban fortress was defended?" Topic
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| Winston Smith | 19 Dec 2015 9:53 a.m. PST |
Just curious to see how long those dinosaurs survived to be useful. |
| Wackmole9 | 19 Dec 2015 10:07 a.m. PST |
The one at Grave During Operation Market Garden was defend by the Germans. |
| zippyfusenet | 19 Dec 2015 12:12 p.m. PST |
The Russians defended Fortress Brest in 1941. The movie is worth watching, if you haven't seen it: YouTube link |
| Jcfrog | 19 Dec 2015 12:58 p.m. PST |
I don't think Brest Litovsk was a "Vauban" type fortress but rather something of mid-late 19th century/ pre WW1. 1944 Cherbourg / Brest ( ours on the sea!) etc. would qualify, with loads of modifications though. |
| jowady | 19 Dec 2015 1:30 p.m. PST |
Metz, 1944, the fortifications were partly designed by Vauban. |
| goragrad | 19 Dec 2015 1:59 p.m. PST |
And as to being 'dinosaurs,' Metz was a 'meat grinder.' |
| John the OFM | 19 Dec 2015 2:48 p.m. PST |
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| jowady | 19 Dec 2015 4:15 p.m. PST |
And as to being 'dinosaurs,' Metz was a 'meat grinder.'
Tell me about it, that's where my Dad was wounded. |
| bsrlee | 19 Dec 2015 5:38 p.m. PST |
IIRC there were plans to use existing city fortifications by NATO if the Cold War had gone hot. Lots of nice thick masonry tunnels and storage chambers as well as tank unfriendly ditches and ramparts. |
| Martin Rapier | 20 Dec 2015 3:04 a.m. PST |
Again, the fortifications at Metz, Verdun etc were heavily upgraded in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Vauban was not renowned for his use of concreted in steel domed artillery replacements. I am sure somewhere in the ETO in ww2 someone fought in an actual Vauban fortess, but even then a lot of them had been customised with addition of concrete pillboxes. |
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