PILLBOXES THAT HAVE LASTED 75 YEARS

[Daan Kemp]

The coast artillery battery protecting the entrance to Maputo harbour has also mostly fallen into the sea or is lying on the beach. Some of the concrete structures on the Bluff outside Durban harbour also. Couple of storms did a lot of scouring.

[Atticus Thraxx]

That's pretty cool. There was a series of bunkers south of where I was stationed in West Germany that our unit sometimes used as an HQ for field exercises. They still had the holes for I assume pintel mounts for machine guns.Almost 20 years later I went to Guam for work and on a Saturday I drove around the island and checked out some of the remains of fortifications against Japanese attack. Not very impressive but on the very north tip there's a place called Ritiadan Point where the beach is littered with big steel I beams welded into an X. They're to prevent landing craft and they're so big there's no easy way to remove them. Hundreds of them. The Japanese showed there usual inhumanity during their occupation. And in a twist of irony while I was there two Japanese tourists were drowned in separate incidents of rip tides. Nature never forgets I guess.