The Atlantic Wall (1): France

Author’s note

The author would like to thank Joe Kaufmann for help in locating some of the bunkers photographed for this book. Thanks also go to the staffs of the US Army’s Military History Institute (MHI) at the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA, the US National Archives And Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, MD, and the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa (NAC). For brevity, the usual conventions have been used when referring to German units. For example, 2/GR.726 refers to 2.Kompanie, Grenadier Regiment 726; 3/HKAA 1261 indicates 3.Batterie, Heeres-Küsten-Artillerie Abteilung 1261.