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Wooden poles used by the Germans to deter Allied gliders landing in southern France, August 1944

ID: 258 ~ Source: Wikimedia Commons

This file appears in: The Invasion of Southern France

The poles were nicknamed "Rommel's Asparagus" after German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel who designed them.

ID: Several tall wooden poles in a field.


This file appears in: The Invasion of Southern France

The Invasion of Southern France

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