If Hitler comes: preparing for invasion: Scotland 1940
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
viii
Acknowledgements
xiii
Prologue: May
1940 xv
PART I: HISTORY
1
Introduction
3
2
Complacency: to May
1940 10
3
The May Panic
23
4
Crisis: June to October
1940 41
5
Consolidation and (Over-) Elaboration: October
1940
to July
1941 59
PART II: THE DEFENCES:
1939^1
6
Trains and Boats and Planes
69
7
Beaches and Stop-Lines
84
8
Barriers
93
9
Pillboxes
108
Conclusion to Part II
125
PART III: WHATWAS BUILT
10
Orkney and Shetland
129
11
Sutherland Sub-area
150
12
Aberdeen Sub-area
172
13
Angus Sub-area
219
14
Fife Sub-area
244
15
The Scottish Command Line
262
16
Edinburgh Area
275
17
Conclusion
290
Notes
293
Index
313
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
o.i The North Sea, May
1940
1.1
The late Ian Shepherd, county archaeologist of Aberdeenshire, at a pillbox
2.1
Generals Carrington and Thorne on manoeuvres in Aberdeenshire,
6
May
1941
2.2
The boundaries of Army Areas and Sub-areas established during
1940
3.1
The classic idea of the Fifth Columnist
3.2
Troop dispositions in May
1940
4.1
Troop dispositions in July
1940
5.1
Troop dispositions in December
1940
5.2
Troop dispositions in May
1941
6.1
Military and civilian aerodromes in Scotland, other than Orkney and
Shetland, in mid-1940
6.2
Major and Minor Defended Ports and other ports in mid-1940
6.3
Torry
Point Battery, Aberdeen
6.4
The harbour perimeter and a guarding pillbox at Aberdeen
6.5
Patrol launches on Loch Lomond, August
1940.
6.6
The forward waggon of one of the armoured trains
6.7
Map of the rail network in
1940
7.1
Vulnerable beaches, October
1941
7.2
Stop-lines and check-lines in mainland Scotland
8.1
Polish engineers erecting cubes near Lossiemouth
8.2
A single line of anti-tank cubes at Lossiemouth
8.3
A mixed line of cubes and concrete-filled sewer pipes
8.4
A Polish Army diagram of the wiring up of a line of anti-tank cubes
8.5
Polish troops constructing dragon s teeth in front of pre-existing cubes at
Carnoustie,
1941
8.6
Dragon s teeth with massive foundations at Freswick Bay, Caithness
8.7
A textbook anti-tank ditch
8.8
The double apron pattern of barbed wire obstruction and a triple
concertina of Dannert wire
8.9
Tests of beach scaffolding on
24
October
1940
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
8.10
Scaffolding being erected at Lunan Bay,
1941
8.11
Home Guard putting the rails into a roadblock in Wester Ross
8.12
Horizontal-rail block with broken column block, East Lothian
8.13
Barrel flame barrage demonstration at Mid
Calder, West
Lothian
8.14
Tank failing to cross an obstacle made by a Canadian pipe mine
9.1
A pillbox cleverly painted to look like a pile of wood
9.2
Plans of some British octagonal, hexagonal and circular pillbox types
9.3
A company blueprint of the Norcon Type III pillbox
9.4
Plans of British rectangular pillbox and gun-house types
9.5
Plans of pillbox types certainly or probably constructed by the Polish
Army, Angus and Fife,
1940-41
10.1
Shetland, showing defences and other sites operational or under
construction in
1940
and the earlier part of
1941
10.2
The defences around Lerwick
10.3
The defences around Sumburgh
10.4
The central and southern part of Orkney
10.5
The defences in the central part of Mainland, around Kirkwall
10.6
A small Orkney Type
22
variant pillbox north of Stromness
10.7
A small Orkney Type
22
variant pillbox made of wetted bags of cement,
on the flank of Wideford Hill at
Blackhill
10.8
A Norcon pillbox on the Inganess Line
11.1
Caithness, the northern portion of Sutherland Sub-area
11.2
The area of
Dünnet
Bay, Murkle Bay and Castletown aerodrome
11.3
The defences of Murkle Bay and
Dünnet
Bay
11.4
Dragon s teeth at the northern end of Murkle Bay
11.5
The defences of Freswick Bay
11.6
Cubes fronted by two lines of dragon s teeth, at the north end of
Freswick Bay
11.7
The defences of Sinclair s Bay, Wick town and the aerodromes at Wick
and Skitten
11.8
Pillbox north of Keiss
11.9
The defences in the southern part of Sutherland Sub-area
11.10
The
Bonar
Bridge defended locality
11.11
Type
28
pillbox at
Bonar
Bridge
12.1
Aberdeen Sub-area
12.2
Anti-glider poles on the salt marsh and lagoons between Nairn and
Findhorn
12.3
The beach defences from Findhorn to Burghead and of RAF Kinloss
12.4
Pillboxes
G
and H, truncated hexagons, on Burghead Beach
12.5
A small machine gun pillbox of type CEScC
2894
on Burghead Beach
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IF HITLER COMES
12.6
CEScC
2893
(Type
24
variant) pillbox
Ρ
on Burghead Beach
12.7
The beaches west of Lossiemouth, and the aerodrome
12.8
CEScC
2893
(Type
24
variant) pillbox, with stone cladding to aid
camouflage
12.9
The beach between Lossiemouth and Kingston on Spey
12.10
Road block and pillbox A closing the track between the Innes Canal and
its north-easterly branch
12.11
Rectangular pillbox
В
of type CEScC
2894
with surviving wire netting to
hold camouflage
12.12
Rectangular pillbox
К
of type CEScC
2894
for a medium machine gun
12.13
Pillbox I on the beach between Lossiemouth and Kingston
12.14
The two gun-houses of the 6-inch gun battery at Innes Links
12.15
Plan °f the 6-inch battery complex at Innes Links
12.16
Gun-house
2
of the Innes Links 6-inch gun battery
12.17
The pillboxes at the eastern end of the double line of cubes blocking
Sandend beach
12.18
The coast from Fraserburgh to the Loch of Strathbeg
12.19
Pillbox
M
viewed from the south
12.20
The defences from the Loch of Strathbeg to Peterhead
12.21
The view from pillbox
В
over the Loch of Strathbeg and the dunes
12.22
The adapted outbuilding at Seaton Farm
12.23
The defences of Cruden Bay
12.24
Complex block at the head of the ramp out of the outer harbour at Port
Errol, Cruden Bay
12.25
Pillbox
В
at Port Errol, Cruden Bay
12.26
Beach defences from Sands of Forvie to Balmedie
12.27
Pillbox variant and scaffolding at Foveran Links, Newburgh
12.28
The fortified pass in the sand-hill at Foveran Links
12.29
The walls of the north-western part of the fortified position
12.30
Louis Lawson s work of art on a cube at Newburgh
12.31
Beach defences from south of Balmedie to the mouth of the River Don
12.32
One of the pillboxes on the Ythan-Don coast
12.33
The defences of Aberdeen beach and harbour
12.34
Anti-tank cubes being destroyed on Aberdeen seafront,
1946
12.35
Nigg Bay s defences looking towards Girdleness,
1945
12.36
Stonehaven and the Cowie Line
12.37
Anti-tank cubes block the only exit from Braidon Bay
12.38
The pillbox and cubes at the north end of the bay at Inverbervie
12.39
The Devil s Elbow defences on the Cowie Line
12.40
Timber revetment of the south bank of the Cowie Line
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
13.1
Angus Sub-area
13.2
The Montrose Bay and Lunan Bay area
13.3
Montrose Bay south of the North Esk
13.4
Concrete defences at the mouth of the North Esk
13.5
One of the two Armco pillboxes at Scordie Ness
13.6
One of the two Polish artillery positions quarried into the cliff near
Scordie Ness
13.7
The defences of Lunan Bay
13.8
Pillbox
С
on Lunan Bay
13.9
Angus Sub-area from Arbroath to Broughty Ferry
13.10
The beach defences from Arbroath to the Dowrie Burn
13.11
The Arbroath Summer Pavilion, decorated for war
13.12
Anti-tank cubes, with dragon s teeth added, and a Y-shaped pillbox at the
mouth of the Elliot Water, SW of Arbroath
13.13
Barry Links
13.14
Dragon s teeth at the west end of Carnoustie Beach
13.15
The King and Queen at the defences of Barry with General Sikorski
13.16
Anti-tank cubes on the western coast of Barry
13.17
Dundee s defences
14.1
Plan of Fife and part of Perthshire Sub-areas
14.2
The defences of the northern part of Tentsmuir
14.3
Tentsmuir pillbox
В
144
Tentsmuir pillboxes
C, D
and
E
14.5
Tentsmuir: 4-inch naval gun
14.6
Tentsmuir pillbox
F
14.7
Tentsmuir pillbox
H
14.8
Polish engineers drawing of the revetting work to be done at Tentsmuir
pillbox
H
14.9
The defences of the southern part of Tentsmuir Sands, the mouth of the
River Eden, and the west beach of St Andrews
14.10
A single line of anti-tank cubes reinforced by two lines of dragon s
teeth
14.11
4-inch naval gun at Rusack s Hotel in St Andrews
14.12
One of the two 6-inch naval guns on a First World War field carriage
operated by the Polish Army near St Andrews
14.13
The defences of the East
Neuk
of Fife
14.14
Aerodrome defence pillbox at Crail
14.15
The defences of Largo Bay
14.16
One of the two Polish pillboxes (C) in the northern half of Largo Bay
14.17
Polish defence plan of Dunfermline street
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IF HITLER COMES
15.1
The northern sector of the Command Line
15.2
Aerial photograph of the anti-tank ditch zigzagging north towards
Murthly
15.3
The large embrasure in Command Line pillbox
В
to accommodate a
2-
pdr anti-tank gun
15.4
Heavily-built timber and brick gun table for a Vickers medium machine
gun in Command Line pillbox
D
15.5
A surviving portion of the Command Line anti-tank ditch above
Muirton Farm, near pillbox
E
15.6
Pillbox
G
at Kinfauns
15.7
The southern sector of the Command Line
15.8
Dragon s teeth on the Command Line, above the village of Collessie in
Fife
15.9
Command Line pillbox
L
on the edge of Collessie in Fife
15.10
The remains of part of a Command Line railway block on the main line
at
Ladybank
Junction in Fife
15.11
A horizontal-rail roadblock and a length of concrete anti-tank wall at
Cowdenlaws
16.1
The central part of Edinburgh Area
16.2
The defences of the East Lothian sector of Edinburgh Area
16.3
The defended beaches from Seton Sands to Gullane Bay
16.4
The defended beaches from Scoughall to Dunbar
16.5
The two types of rectangular structure on the beaches from Scoughall to
the mouth of the Tyne
16.6
The probable small Vickers post, pillbox E, positioned to fire onto
Ravensheugh Sands
16.7
The cubes on the south side of the River Tyne
16.8
The double line of cubes on the east side of the mouth of the Tyne
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