Fife Stop Line - The Deadly Garden Traditional Geocache
Fife Stop Line - The Deadly Garden
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This cache is one of a series based around the Fife Stop Line, a
second world war ani-invasion defensive structure built in 1940/41,
see cache GC11H67 for more details.
Here we are at yet another railway bridge and surprise surprise it
has a concealed defender. Look back at the house on the other side
of the railway and let you eye run along the garden wall to the
corner furthest from the road. Can you see the four square firing
holes in the stonework. You can also see where the wall was
dismantled, a bunker constructed and the wall reassembled
again.
The purpose of all of these hidden structures was to slow down the
enemy. Advancing troops would have to check out every wall and
building and would be coming under constant attack from unexpected
quarters. Special squads were to hide in underground lairs as the
enemy advanced and then surface to attack them from behind. Special
assasination squads were to kill the chief constables of each
occupied county to prevent the enemy using them to exert control,
ordinary police officers co-operating with the invader could expect
the same fate. Other squads would retreat to hidden bases from
where they would conduct guerrilla warfare against the
occupier.
This was not the only defensive line in the country and if it had
begun to fail the next would have been brought into use. The enemy
would have to expend huge amounts of men and ammunition to take
each line, and as they did so their strength would weaken and their
own supply lines would become longer and more vulnerable.
Eventually the invasion would grind to a halt.
Additional Hints
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