04-09-2008, 10:29 PM
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| Pog mo thon   Join Date: Apr 2004
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 | 8 days..... 8 days to smash through lines of bunkers. It just goes to show the fallibility of Fixed defenses against combined arms attacks.... Eben Emael fell quickly Maginot Line didnt hinder the Germans much, even the forces that had to attack it directly.... the Atlantic Wall was pierced fairly easily....Just as the age of the Battleship ended in WW2 so did the myth that Fixed defenses would hold out against determined resistance.
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian |
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