The forts were huge and made out of thick concrete and are buried on the sides of hills. The have machine gun hoes and big strong doors. The soldiers would live and stay in the tunnels under ground. That would keep them safe when big bombs were shot at them.
On top of the fort were gun turrets. The turrets would go up and down. Some of them looked like Darth Vader helmets.
When Heinrich looked closely at the turrets he could see where some of the cannon shells had hit them and bounced off.
There was also a memorial called the Tranchee de bayonettes. These were the trenches that protected the soldiers when they were out of there forts. Bayonets were long knives on the end of rifles and sometimes the soldiers would have to fight each other with them. It was a very nasty place to be.
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