Carmarthen Bay Coastal Path
Tank Buster Blocks
4 Pyramid shaped "dragon's teeth" , Tank Buster Blocks on Morfa Bychan Beach.
Planted on this beach in 1944 for an excercise during the Second World War - "Exercise Jantzen" -
when troops in landing crafts and tanks stormed the beach to practise for the Normandy Landings.
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Inset photo - the storms of 2014 scoured the beach exposing a mass of flattened heavy
8x6inch steel angle ( WW2 beach obstacles?) - (03/03/2014)
Ref: 11042.12923C
Date: 01/11/2012
Location: SN 225 075
