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http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2013/05/22/world-5-most-impressive-battlefield-sites/
1. Monmouth Battlefield State Park – Monmouth, NJ
The entire park preserves the 18th century landscape as it originally stood, with its orchards, fields, woods and wetlands.
2. Pointe du Hoc – Normandy, France
The original German fortifications have been left in place, and the entire site leaves a number of bomb craters still intact.
3. Rabaul – East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea
This WWII site proves most impressive, not just for the reminder of the complete success of Allied tactics that led the Japanese to surrender the base in August 1945, but also for the impressively fortified base itself. Visitors can tour the tunnels, bunkers, and gun positions, and enjoy the fact that they’re in a historic army base in a tropical paradise and not under heavy artillery fire.
4. Antietam National Battlefield – Washington County, MD
Located among the Appalachian foothills near the Potomac River, the area features a visitor center, national military cemetery, a field hospital museum, and the wonderfully preserved, legendary Burnsides’s Bridge, which played a key role in the Civil War battle.
5. Fort Douaumont – Verdun, France
......visitors can see it as it stood that very day. Tours lead through the three different levels of the fort and all the intricate tunneling, as well as the preserved guns, turrets, and other weaponry that are reminders of the horrors of trench warfare.
1. Monmouth Battlefield State Park – Monmouth, NJ
The entire park preserves the 18th century landscape as it originally stood, with its orchards, fields, woods and wetlands.
2. Pointe du Hoc – Normandy, France
The original German fortifications have been left in place, and the entire site leaves a number of bomb craters still intact.
3. Rabaul – East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea
This WWII site proves most impressive, not just for the reminder of the complete success of Allied tactics that led the Japanese to surrender the base in August 1945, but also for the impressively fortified base itself. Visitors can tour the tunnels, bunkers, and gun positions, and enjoy the fact that they’re in a historic army base in a tropical paradise and not under heavy artillery fire.
4. Antietam National Battlefield – Washington County, MD
Located among the Appalachian foothills near the Potomac River, the area features a visitor center, national military cemetery, a field hospital museum, and the wonderfully preserved, legendary Burnsides’s Bridge, which played a key role in the Civil War battle.
5. Fort Douaumont – Verdun, France
......visitors can see it as it stood that very day. Tours lead through the three different levels of the fort and all the intricate tunneling, as well as the preserved guns, turrets, and other weaponry that are reminders of the horrors of trench warfare.
