Coastal Defenses
I remember the first time I saw remains of World War II coastal defenses, in Normandy. A big part of why I had gone there (that and Mt St Michelle.) I was surprised to see them on the Pacific Coast of the United States. I imagine there were fortifications or gun emplacements along the Atlantic coast of the US, but I have never seen them. This was along the strait that separates the US and British Columbia, on a little sand hill across from the beach. Rusting away into a distant memory. Further west we saw a massive concrete bunker, made to last, I will post more pictures of that one day.
Notice the odd little dark spot just above the dune line near the right hand side of the image? I picked up a bit of fluff on the image sensor censor in my camera. It took me a while to track it down, and figure out how to lock the mirror up so I could carefully clean the sensor. A first for everything.
if you travel down highway 12 to the outer banks towns of NC, you will see concrete bunkers like this.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to go there some day. There a German sub buried in the sand just north of the space center, when the waves wash the sand off of it, it is reburried.
DeleteI was surprised to learn when we lived in Santa Barbara that, during WWII, there was a submarine attack on the coast in our little town. Apparently that attack was a key factor in the decision to intern Japanese-Americans. Knee-jerks!
ReplyDeleteWest coast attacks were kept quiet. No one recognized the flaw in the logic, the people in the camps, had nothing to do with the attack.
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