Amazing WW2 Image: German Turret Defence

[armorer]

These emplacements were called "Tobruks" from the battle that they were first used in.

[gulliver]

Preparing for TET in 1968 along the road leading into Saigon. We Americans had tanks sand bagged buried with turrets pointing north. Saw it on the way back to Long Binh.

[Wil-nhkz]

The image was captured at St Raphael, which is now a pleasant sea side resort on the Côte D'Azur.

[vincentk]

It’s a Panzer II with an MG and 20mm auto canon.

[georgep]

They were all over France on the coast. It was just one of the types of embattlements at the Atlantic Wall. They were a tank turret over a concrete bunker.

[Steven-ud]

They field stripped the tank turret. And placed them in a concrete base. They did this with old tanks

[brentcallender]

They should start another channel called “This Amazing Image” but for all subjects. Great channel love the information. Well done

[billcrenshaw]

After Germany captured most of Europe, it had a lot of captured allied equipment. It took some of the captured tanks and used the turrets as pill boxes, because they only had limited ammunition for the captured tanks.

[markusnurmi]

Was it Patton who sayed "we fought wrong enemy"?

[AWalkOnDirt]

Marine who was with Task Force Ripper in Desert Storm. The Iraqis did the same thing. The tanks were so enclosed and dug in that they were not moving anywhere. They were just turrets.

[anthonyiocca]

That’s called;
Support by fire position 20mm

[nanko]

At the Atlantic Wall they put old turrets on a so called Tobruk.

[redhed]

if you had enough of these congregated, they'd be hard to deal with.

[Axgoodofdunemaul]

I saw a lot of odd things in the Vietnam War, and had to keep moving on, curiosity unsatisfied. However, curiosity kills soldiers.

[kevinsherwood]

Germans utilised broken down tanks to full effect this was a regular occurrence

[alsmith]

What else are you going to do with a Panzer MKI turret

[HistoryAndAdventure]

Some of these were salvaged from destroyed tanks if im correct?

[HUMINT]

Dang how tall were the men who served in these things?

[cubanlemonguy]

Wow! That narrator sounds just like Kenny Wallace.

[tedcopple]

Its called a Tobruk. After the city in which it was first used.