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WWII World War Two
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Thank you my friend CW5 Jack Cardwell for posting Wine barrel Fortifications.
"Super-size sandbags" which could certainly absorb more kinetic rounds as well as artillery. Of course they were harder to move than sandbags.
In France and Italy there were more than enough vintners to provide wine barrels for makeshift fortifications when cement and metal reinforcing [rebar] rods were scarse.
As our friend CSM Charles Hayden mentioned filling barrels [especially if bucket loaders are available] is easier than filling sandbags.
FYI CPT Tommy CurtisSGT (Join to see) Col Carl WhickerSGT Mark AndersonSSG Michael NollCpl James R. " Jim" Gossett Jr SPC Jon O.SP5 Jeannie CarleSPC Chris Bayner-CwikPO1 Jerome NewlandTSgt David L.PO1 Robert GeorgeSN Donald HoffmanMAJ Richard MartinSSG Robert Mark Odom
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"Super-size sandbags" which could certainly absorb more kinetic rounds as well as artillery. Of course they were harder to move than sandbags.
In France and Italy there were more than enough vintners to provide wine barrels for makeshift fortifications when cement and metal reinforcing [rebar] rods were scarse.
As our friend CSM Charles Hayden mentioned filling barrels [especially if bucket loaders are available] is easier than filling sandbags.
FYI CPT Tommy CurtisSGT (Join to see) Col Carl WhickerSGT Mark AndersonSSG Michael NollCpl James R. " Jim" Gossett Jr SPC Jon O.SP5 Jeannie CarleSPC Chris Bayner-CwikPO1 Jerome NewlandTSgt David L.PO1 Robert GeorgeSN Donald HoffmanMAJ Richard MartinSSG Robert Mark Odom
SPC Americo Garcia Sgt (Join to see) SSgt Terry P.
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Necessity is the mother of invention/innovation, or is that "southern-engineering"?
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