georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov:

The rusting, aged combat block 3 of the fortifications at Rochonvillers. Center and to the right are observation posts with rifle ports, while to the left is an artillery turret, which would have held two 75mm guns.

(via meanworldsyndrome)

fuckyeahbrutalism:

Fort Drum, Manila Bay, Phillipines

(US Army Corps of Engineers, 1914)

absurdonio:

Former anti-aircraft tower at Heligoland with a new beacon, 1953.

via VZB

wearetherebirth:

Maginot Line 1944

vitorrochawall:

German Bunker camouflaged  in a Norman House, Normandy (http://www.dday-overlord.com/)

Atlantic Wall, 1995 by Magdalena Jetelova

(Source: elviralo, via idumaea-deactivated20130124)

Soldiers marching into a Maginot bunker, France

(Source: inilossum.com)

Part of the Maginot line, France

(Source: forum.paradoxplaza.com)

posthorn:

The Maginot Line; Modern Mechanix, Feb. 1934.

(Source: blog.modernmechanix.com)

thedevilsguard:

French artillery fires from armoured cupolas within the Maginot Line. Only a direct hit from heavy artillery would be capable of destroying guns as well protected as these.

polskiepantzwopodziemne:

maginot line

-outlying-:

John R. Marks, Fort Schoenenbourg, Maginot Line, 2008

a-lchemist:

Underground rail tunnel built by the French at the Maginot Line, 1940.

The Alpine Line, or Little Maginot Line, built in the 30s to defend France against an Italian invasion.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Fort Maginot Ste.-Agnès

(Source: Flickr / papy06)