[Homer_J_Simpson]

From The Times of May 21, 1939 I am posting five different articles from the Sunday supplement section News of the Week in Review.

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

The military mind of Europe – particularly in the west – is preoccupied with the problem of piercing these solid barriers – of “cracking” the Maginot Line of France; the Limes Line of the Reich, of outflanking the forts, of avoiding the World War stalemate of the trenches.

Check out the picture of General von Brauchitsch on the third image. What a happy looking guy!

[gridlock]

They built steel and concrete fortifications across all of Europe 70 years ago, but today we can’t even put up a chain-link fence along our Southern border...

[OrioleFan]

The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, VA is planning the largest gathering of veterans of D-Day in recent years for the 65th anniversary this June 6th. If you know someone who was there, let them know about this event.

[beebuster2000]

i read that the germans captured some of the forts by landing paratroops in gliders on top of them at the start of the war. i guess the french didnt plan on that.

one wonders what the modern analogy is to the maginot line? could it be our high tech defense, that might go down or rendered inefective somehow just like the fixed fortifications proved totally useless to the french?