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CORF with artillery

CORF without artillery

Observatory CORF

Casemate CORF

Shelter CORF

Before station

Not CORF of PR (MOM…)

Not CORF of the “second position”

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Front_: succession of the types of fortification on the face

Ouvrages_: name of important fortifications CORF

CORF_A++: fortification CORF with powerful artillery

CORF_A: fortification CORF with artillery

CORF_I: fortification CORF without artillery

FL_A: light fortification with artillery.

FL_I: light fortification without artillery.

Note: if it is not built in mountains of difficult access, a fortification (especially a light fortification of countryside) has value only if it is shouldered by a strong infantry of interval and, especially, by a powerful artillery.

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December 6th, 1926 the Commission of Defense of Borders (CDF) draws up a precise report on the organization to be implemented to defend France:

North: light fortifications of countryside, to realize in time of war

The North-East, vis-a-vis Germany: 3 zones of powerful fortifications (Metz; The Vosges - Lauter-; Belfort)

South-east, vis-a-vis Italy: powerful fortification barring the collars

CORF?

The CORF (Commission of Organization of the Strengthened Areas) is created on September 30th, 1927. It is charged to implement the organization envisaged by the CDF. I.e. that it draws the plans of the fortifications, makes study the new materials which must equip them, and proceeds to the realization of the unit. This is why we give the qualifier of “works CORF” to these fortifications, in opposition to the constructions not CORF, light, built after 1935.

The Maginot Line of 1940 is the unit consisted the fortification CORF, powerful, and the light fortification (“fortification stuff” writes Philippe Truttmann in its book “the Wall of France”).

Notice

Budgetary restrictions reduced artillery of the zones to be strengthened (except in the Alps): adjournments in the south of Metz, in the center and on the wings of Lauter, and in Belfort.

Where there is no artillery, the Maginot Line is satisfied with fortifications of infantry, sometimes CORF but very often of light fortifications of countryside.

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Element CORF with artillery. Entrée_: entry of the men and/or the ammunition. H: men. B: weapons under concrete. C: arm under armoured bell. T: arm under turret with eclipse. Infanterie_: infantry; Artillerie_: artillery; Observatoires_: armoured observatories.

Element CORF without artillery. Entrée_: entry of the men and/or the ammunition. H: men. B: weapons under concrete. C: arm under armoured bell. T: arm under turret with eclipse. Infanterie_: infantry; Observatoires_: armoured observatories.

Element of the “line of the outposts”.

Element not CORF and without artillery, of the “Position of resistance”.

Element not CORF and without artillery, of the “Second position”.

Shelter for the troops of interval.

Observatory.

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