Mannerheim Line
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The Mannerheim Line was a defensive fortification line on the Karelian Isthmus built by Finland against the Soviet Union. While this was never an officially designated name, during the Winter War it b
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim in 1937
A bunker on high ground 65 (2009)
Bunker Sk16 (2009). The modern Finnish graffiti reads: They sacrificed their lives for the country in the struggle for freedom.
Bunker Ink5 (2011)
Siegfried Line
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The Siegfried Line, known in German as the Westwall, was a German defensive line built during the late 1930s.
Front line in December 1944
American soldiers cross the Siegfried Line and march into Germany.
U.S. soldiers pause for a rest among the ruins of the Siegfried Line in the Rhine Valley, February 1945
Bunker ruins near Aachen