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

By Guy Gunter
"We went into southern France. Of course that was an easy mission. And we had anti-glider and anti-parachute poles, pine trees that they’d [the Germans] planted in the big field we were going to land in. So we landed the gliders in between the…