Atlantic Wall, 2024
Gone with the winds
 

Fearing an allied invasion of occupied Europe, Adolf Hitler in 1942 ordered the building of a 5,000km (3,100 mile) coastal defence  system from Northern Norway to Soutwestern France , studded with bunkers, gun emplacements, tank traps and other obstacles. Some 15,000 heavy bunkers should have been built by May 1st 1943, but due to insufficient manpower, materials and fuel only 6,000 were completed.
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In a surge of resilience, nature always reclaims its rights, sooner or later, wherever human beings have been, as if to erase the worst that they have done.

80 years later, many of those defense coastal bunkers have gone with the seas and with the winds. The more resistant of them will vanish inexorably, with the time.