From the June 5, 2011, PR Newswire.
On its 11th birthday, the National World War II Museum in New Orleans is receiving three large sections of Hitler's supposed impregnable Atlantic Wall, built to keep the Allies out of France. It is being donated by the Utah Beach Museum at Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, France. Each piece is 5.5 feet tall, 18-inches thick and 35-feet in length. Also, each weighs 22 tons and all are pock-marked with the fire of incoming Allied shells and rifle fire.
Completed in 1944, the Atlantic Wall was a series of fortifications to protect Europe's west coast from Allied attack. Stretching some 3,200 miles long, it consisted of concrete wall, mines, pillboxes, tank traps and the famous "Rommel's Asparagus." (I'll have to look that one up.)
Something I'd Sure Like to See. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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