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Rommelspargel

Germany · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1943

Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel1943

Atlantic Wall · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Given the Allied air supremacy (12,000 Allied aircraft against 300 Luftwaffe fighters booby-trapped stakes known as Rommelspargel (Rommels asparagus) are set up on likely landing grounds to deter airborne landings

Names involved

Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel

Provenance

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