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2. GHQ Line - Wikipedia

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   The GHQ Line (General Headquarters Line) was a defence line built in the United Kingdom during World War II to contain an expected German invasion. The British Army had abandoned most of its equipment in France after the Dunkirk evacuation. It was therefore decided to build a static system of defensive lines around Britain, designed to ...

3. British hardened field defences of World War II - Wikipedia

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   Each wall is about 6 feet (1.8 m) long and it was generally built to the bulletproof standard of 12 inches (30 cm) thick, although shellproof versions with walls around 40 inches (1.0 m) thick were also built such as the granite and concrete examples on the Cowie Line in Kincardineshire and along the upper Thames in Oxfordshire.

4. British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War

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   The GHQ line was intended to protect the capital and the industrial heartland of England. [50] Another major line was the Taunton Stop Line, which defended against an advance from England's south-west peninsula. [53] London and other major cities were ringed with inner and outer stop lines. [54] Military thinking shifted rapidly.

5. Moor Park, Farnham - Wikipedia

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   The GHQ Line (General Headquarters Line) was a defence line built in the United Kingdom during World War II to contain an expected German invasion. Part of the GHQ Stop Line B runs through the area south and east of Farnham through the valley of the River Wey and was designed to prevent a German invasion force from using the Wey Valley to reach ...

6. Army Ground Forces - Wikipedia

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   However, since Marshall saw McNair infrequently and seldom visited GHQ, it was in practice McNair who directed GHQ. As World War II approached, the role of GHQ remained a training function and a few months after Pearl Harbor, the command was redesignated as HQ, Army Ground Forces in recognition of its revised mission.

7. Category:British World War II defensive lines - Wikipedia

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8. Deflategate 10 years later: Was it an actual scandal or an ...

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   The ensuing madness was one of the wilder and weirder stories in NFL lore — part who done it, part high-paid legal drama, part science lesson, part Rorschach test, part character assassination ...

9. Outer London Defence Ring - Wikipedia

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   A pill box forming part of the southern section of the Outer London Defence Ring on the North Downs near Westcott, Surrey.. The Outer London Defence Ring was a defensive ring built around London during the early part of the Second World War.