[keats5]

Could someone with experience in this area explain what a "pillbox" is? Is it something like a trench?

[Ukiapah Heep]

It's hard to believe that in the 1950's and 60's guys like this were to be found everywhere. They were your next door neighbor, the pharmacist, the guy at the gas station, the mailman, your teachers and your dad and uncles. Man, have times changes.

[rbookward]

From the dictionary:

 pillbox
       n 1: a small round woman's hat [syn: toque, turban]
       2: a small case for holding pills
       3: a small enclosed gun emplacement (usually of fortified concrete)

[stumpy]

Pill box is a generic term for a bunker. Germans and Japanese troops often built them of concrete of great thickness to resist the effects of artillery or naval gunfire. They are what the germans defended the beaches of Normandy from. In the Pacific, they were constructed of coconut logs, buried under coral sand. Some would require a direct hit from the Navy's 16" guns to take out. (those shells create a swimming pool where they land.).

[Kolb]

http://www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk/

What a great man and Marine. Angelo Ciotta, my hat is off to you.