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  2. 10th Mountain Division - Wikipedia

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    The division maintained defensive positions in this area for three weeks, anticipating a counteroffensive by the German forces. [ 42 ] Members of the 86th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, march north, near Malcesine, on Lake Garda, without meeting any resistance, April 29, 1945.

  3. British hardened field defences of World War II - Wikipedia

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    There were also designs for pillbox-like structures for various purposes, including light anti-aircraft positions, observation posts and searchlight positions to illuminate the shoreline. In addition, the Air Ministry provided designs of fortifications intended to protect airfields from troops landing or parachuting.

  4. Regelbau - Wikipedia

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    Examples of Regelbau designs that were used in the construction of the Neckar-Enz position. The Regelbau (German for "standard(ised) construction") were a series of standardised bunker designs built in large numbers by the Germans in the Siegfried Line (German: Westwall) and the Atlantic Wall as part of their defensive fortifications prior to and during the Second World War.

  5. Fortified tower - Wikipedia

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    A fortified tower (also defensive tower or castle tower or, in context, just tower) is one of the defensive structures used in fortifications, such as castles, along with defensive walls such as curtain walls. Castle towers can have a variety of different shapes and fulfil different functions.

  6. Hardened aircraft shelter - Wikipedia

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    Hardened aircraft shelter at RAF Bruggen, 1981 The HASs at RAF Upper Heyford in the United Kingdom are protected as scheduled monuments.. A hardened aircraft shelter (HAS) or protective aircraft shelter (PAS) is a reinforced hangar to house and protect military aircraft from enemy attack.

  7. Titans hire former Chiefs assistant general manager Mike ...

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    After Carthon's dismissal, Adams Strunk said that president of football operations Chad Brinker would lead the search for the next GM and that head coach Brian Callahan will remain with the team.

  8. Niagara Falls Air Force Missile Site - Wikipedia

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    The 35th Air Defense Missile Squadron (BOMARC) was constituted on 17 December 1959 and activated on 1 June 1960 in the Syracuse Air Defense Sector. It was transferred to the Detroit Air Defense Sector on 4 September 1963, the 34th Air Division on 1 April 1966, the 35th Air Division on 15 September 1969, and the 21st Air Division on 19 November 1969.

  9. Blockhouse - Wikipedia

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    Completed in 1750, Fort Edward in Nova Scotia, Canada is the oldest remaining military blockhouse in North America. Reconstructed European wooden keep at Saint-Sylvain-d'Anjou, France, has a strong resemblance to a North American western frontier log blockhouse