Two-loophole heavy machine gun pillbox near the road to Sakiai. Five pillboxes were built in and around the village of Isdagai but not even one was fully equipped and armed before 21 June 1941.
They were supposed to screen the road hub in Sakiai from the south-west but the collapse of the Soviet front in the Baltic States was so rapid and the advance of the Germans so swift that they had never seen any combat.
Today they seem to almost sink in muddy fields and most of them are so overgrown with bushes that getting to their loopholes is often a real struggle. Entrances and empty loopholes are often sealed with brickwork to prevent entry into the flooded compartments and in those rare occasions when there is a chance to get inside one needs to crawl in the mud to squeeze into the openings made narrow by the mud and debris.

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