Matt308
Glock Perfection
Really freebird, what did that look like... not your foot who gives a rip... but rather the spike.
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When I was 7 I found a "Secret Nazi" Anti-invasion spike on a German beach...
By impaling my foot with it.... OW!
Too bad my parents didn't keep it as a souvenir....
Really freebird, what did that look like... not your foot who gives a rip... but rather the spike.
Well I don't remember much, mostly a bawling kid getting his foot stiched up getting a tetanus shot!
Apparently it was buried in the sand/pebbles, I only steped down far enough to stick it in my foot perhaps 3/4 inch. Supposedly they put smaller spike belts on the best invasion beaches, to injure the soldiers wading up.
You should come here to Hoek van Holland, we have tons of the stuf. Mostly free to walk into, but take your torch.
Hmmm, depending on the price, we could create a ww2aircraft hangout in the Czech Republic. What would be more appropriate than one of the bunkers?
Also we have a lot of bunkers here along Austrian,German and Polish boarder. Build in 30´s on order of Czechoslovakian goverment. Our soldiers had to leave them without fighting after Munich´s dictat in Sept. 1938.
A lot of them are accessible today and some of them are even for sale...
WWII bunkers for sale - 26-07-2005 13:15 UTC - Radio Prague
I have been trying to get over to the bunkers in the Czech for the last few months. I never make it!
The same for me. Wanted to visit Berchtesgaden this year but it looks bad. But next year I gotta make it. If you wanna see any bunker here, next spring would be good for me. If also for you, we will make it.
I will keep that in mind and see what we can do. I do not live very far from teh Czech border.
3/4in is far enough. OUCH! Do you have any pics of what these spikes would look like before being set? Sounds like friggin' caltrops!
Didn't make a detailed inspection at the time!
I don't remember, but the local doctor told my dad that they had found stuff on the beaches over the years, bits of rusty barbed wire etc.
I think the largest spikes were meant to impale boats, LCV's etc, and they set smaller spikes to catch men or inflatables coming ashore. I believe that they did not anticipate front-door LCV's, they probably expected small boats rubber rafts.
There were alot of bunkers/pillboxes above the beaches, so if they could snag incoming troops they had longer to fire on them before they got ashore.
I will make it over to Normandy sometime in my life.