Vosges - Mengelbier - German observation turret
German observation turret "Mengelbier" for use with periscope just to SW of Aussichts Felsen. HWK (Hartmannswillerkopf) was also known to the French as "Le Vieil Armand" is a 900m hill rocky spur with extensive views over the Rhine plain north of Mulhouse. Of obvious strategic significance it was heavily fought over for much of the war and has some of the most extensive German fortifications of any region of the Western Front
Picture No
10921019
Media ID
47616654
Size
6144px x 4096px
(4.9MB)
Credit
westernfrontphotography.com/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Mike St Maur Sheil
Date
2006
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