This is further exacerbated by the fact the pillboxes that survive today represent only a fraction of the defences originally constructed. As they were never used, we still have a very poor idea of how successful they would have been. We still know very little about these defences, their history or their development, apart from a broad overview of what was happening at a national level. But that is all but forgotten today and most people have a very poor understanding of the actual history of these defences, other than what they read online from sites and individuals that just regurgitate mythology and folklore.Īlthough these almost temporary stop-lines seem to grab the attention of many, a lot more research is required to gain a true understanding of wartime anti-invasion defences and how they developed over their relatively short life-span. That’s right, the GHQ line and stop-line strategy employed by General Ironside was only in use officially for 2 months! Ironside’s replacement, General Alan Brooke, implemented a strategy of nodal points, anti-tank islands and centres of resistance lasted from July 1940 until the anti-invasion defences were stood down around December 1942/early 1943, which was much longer than the stop line strategy lasted. As a result, this blog only represents my initial research and plotting of the GHQ line that was constructed and in operation from June to August 1940. I wrote this blog back in 2015 and the research has developed over the years. If you would like to find out more about how to record and help preserve wartime sites and structures, please do join the UK Second World War Heritage Facebook group and check out the website, where you can find a range of resources and information UKSWWH Website. If you would like to help support my work, why not Buy Me A Coffee over on Ko-Fi? This has proven to be my most popular post so far! If you’d like to learn more about the GHQ Line and the Home Forces, then head over to the UK Second World War Heritage website and our new Home Forces Resources. Still by far the most viewed blog on my website.
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