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pillbox
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pillbox, small, low fortification that houses machine guns and antitank weapons. Similar to a blockhouse, it is usually made of concrete, steel, logs, or filled sandbags. Pillboxes came into use during the early 20th cent. in the Belgian and French fortresses that were built before World War I. They were first used extensively by the Japanese in World War II. The Germans employed pillboxes in the defense of Normandy and the Siegfried Line and developed a portable steel pillbox that was used in Italy.
pillbox [′pil‚bäks]
(ordnance)
Small, low fortification that houses machine guns or antitank weapons; usually made of concrete, steel, or sandbags.


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The main Scottish Command Line, comprising an anti-tank barrier including anti-tank walls and the adaptation of rail embankments, pillboxes and anti-tank cubes, was intended to run from Dysart in Fife to Loch Tummel in Perthshire.
I approached the National History Museum at St Fagans and they said they were interested in pillboxes but wanted a particular brick one which was more representative of Wales at the time.
As a result hundreds of pillboxes remain, and English Heritage has been developing a policy of protection.
 
 
 
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