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Archaeological aspects of D-Day: Operation Overlord

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Henry Wills
Henry Wills*
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The September Editorial (68: 477–9) noticed how the Normandy invasions of D-Day 1944 are, and are not, archaeologically visible. The author of the pioneering book on the pillbox defences of Britain in the Second World War explains what little there is surviving in southern England. Static defences, we see, leave traces in a way a mobile attack does not.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 261 , December 1994 , pp. 843 - 845
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994