KOTA TINGGI: Seven pillboxes built by the British in World War II along Sungai Johor here have stood the test of time, even surviving natural disasters including the major flood that hit the ...

It seems that the real building programme of pillboxes started in 1938 because this is the earliest date that shows the building of the first defences of this type in Malta. These pillboxes were ...

Wrote the New York Herald Tribune’s Homer Bigart: First Class. “The pillboxes were 70 yards apart and built into rock and were amazingly well camouflaged. They were of two sizes. The four-by ...

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Around 28,000 pillboxes - squat concrete bunkers - were constructed along the UK’s east coast during the Second World War in preparation for a potential invasion by Hitler’s forces following ...

the Republic of Albania in Southeast Europe, more than 750,000 pillboxes were built between the 1960s and 1980s, and some still remain today. Land of the Giant Mushrooms: Albania's 750,000 Cold ...

GEORGE TOWN: Left abandoned, unkempt and in filthy condition – the World War II pillboxes (bunkers) scattered all over the state are in dire need to be restored back to their glory days.

It is one of dozens of pillboxes built by the British to prevent attacks on railroads and bridges in Mandate Palestine. Quite a few remain whole, and can be found all over the country, often ...

World War Two pillboxes were covered in graffiti by vandals ahead of the D-Day anniversary. Two pillboxes at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve have been attacked. The nature reserve is home to 13 ...