Retired military. We trained in ways to defeat walls, moats, and bunkers.
Note to 21st century people: They stopped building castles 500 years ago.
20th century update: see Maginot Line, Normandy Coast defenses, SiegfriedLine, Okinawa, Saipan

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11 The material in the Siegfriedline (westwall) was to remain there (we know that in 1944 and 1945 the Westwall was in a dire state so at a certain point this order was overruled).

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A G.I of the 2nd Armored Division poses with some war trophies in a city near the Siegfried Line, Germany, April 1945.

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