Hello everyone, We had the most interesting visit to the Maginot Line. We were told that the French started building it in 1929 in a spirit of "never again" after they were so badly hit during WWI. The purpose was to protect that part of their border that wasn't protected by friendlies--Belgium or by natural defence--mountains. Also, military service had been reduced to one year, so this conserved manpower. It was five hundred miles of subterranean tunnel that contained a rail system for moving ammunition. The walls were constructed of brick, cement and gridiron and were almost four feet deep. During WWII it accommodated 1,000 men and forty officers. They worked in three shifts, eight hours of defence work, eight hours of sleep, six hours of repair and maintenance work with the final two hours to
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