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Anti-landing Stakes Dartmoor

On open spaces like Dartmoor, wooden stakes were placed during the second World War to prevent the landing of enemy gliders carrying invading troops.

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Source

Text: Fedor de Vries
Photos: Wikimedia Commons

Where is it?

50.598188, -3.829198

Nearby

Monument

Memorial RAF Hamel Down - Lettaford
Commemorative plaque St. Pancras Church Widecombe-in-the-Moor - Widecombe-in-the-Moor
War Memorial Manaton - Manaton

Cemetery

Commonwealth War Grave St. Pancras Churchyard - Widecombe-in-the-Moor
Commonwealth War Graves St. John the Baptist Churchyard - North Bovey
Commonwealth War Grave St. John the Baptist Churchyard - Leusdon

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