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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 19, Issue 2, Pages 233-261Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10761-015-0287-4
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Conflict archaeology; Normandy; France; Logistics; Forests
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Archaeological survey in the Fort domaniale des Andaines has recorded nearly 900 discrete earthwork bunkers, building foundations, trenches, and other features associated with WW2 German fuel, munitions and logistics depots. Documentary evidence establishes these depots were administered from Bagnoles-de-l'Orne and were a key component of the Seventh Army logistics network before and during the Normandy Campaign of June-August 1944. Post-war survival of features has been remarkably good in this forested setting and it is argued that this likely constitutes one of the best-preserved and most extensive examples of a non-hardened WW2 archaeological landscape yet documented in Western Europe.
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