Bunker on beach, Leysdown-on-sea, England. Photo source: ©© Scott Wylie
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Coastal erosion along the south coast is exposing stretches of Britain’s WWII defences, presenting historians with a unique insight into the physical remains of Britain’s wartime past…
Read Full Article, The Telegraph UK
D-Day’s Legacy Sands, Omaha Beach; By Earle F. McBride & M. Dane Picard
Before dawn on June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops began storming the shores of Normandy, France, in what would be the turning point of World War II. Troops poured out of planes and off ships along an 80-kilometer stretch of coastline. Omaha Beach sand retains evidence of the Invasion…
Europe’s Oldest Footprints Uncovered On English Coast, Science Daily (02-10-2014)
Growing Climate Change Threat to Britain’s Historic Coastline, The Telegraph UK (06-12-2015)
Hundreds of miles of British coastline – so long the symbol of this nation’s island story – are collapsing through worsening erosion…
