Pillbox 37/6-61-A-140 - Lednice, Czech Republic
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member ToRo61
N 48° 47.003 E 016° 47.749
33U E 631915 N 5404930
The "Light Object" (pillbox) 37/6-61-A-140 beside Pond House
Waymark Code: WMHVAM
Location: Jihomoravský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 08/15/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member snaik
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The Czechoslovak government built a system of border fortifications from 1935 to 1938 as a defensive countermeasure against the rising threat of Nazi Germany (visit link) .

Light fortification bunkers were started to be built by Czechoslovakia in 1936. In all, some 800 of them were constructed. The light fortification of the 36 type consisted of a firing room manned by two to six soldiers. It was armed with machine guns of the 26 type or submachine guns of the 24 type.
Most of them were situated in the borderland ceded by Czechoslovakia to Germany after the Munich agreement in 1938. The fortifications were never used in combat.

This pillbox is located near by Pond House (visit link) ashore of one of the Lednice Ponds.
Era: WW II

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