Chronology of World War II

Thursday, October 19th


A Fort on the Maginot Line


A Fort on the Maginot Line
A party of newspaper men on the Western Front are shown atop one of the big forts somewhere in the Maginot Line, France, on October 19, 1939, with a French army guide pointing out to them the “no man’s land” that separates the French and German troops. (AP Photo)