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August 27, 2018 at 5:56 am #1258169

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Great question, @phaidknott – This is sort of what we were touching on over on the trench board VLOG thread. How strictly ‘WW1 angular’ the trench system should or shouldn’t be, given the relative haste with which most WW2 field fortification works were put in place.

Also, I found at least in France, that except for a few memorials, etc … people are pretty keen on bulldozing these fortifications out of the way immediately after the war. Can’t blame them, they’re ugly, they remind people of a nasty time, and their specifically design to impede travel. Also, US and British armies bulldozed of blew up most of them to clear the routes off the invasion beaches. So again, very few of them survived.