Landscape Archaeology of World War Two German Logistics Depots in the Forêt domaniale des Andaines, Normandy, France David Capps Tunwell & David G. Passmore & Stephan Harrison # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 Abstract Archaeological survey in the Forêt domaniale des Andaines has recorded nearly 900 discrete earthwork bunkers, building foundations, trenches, and other features associated with WW2 German fuel, munitions and logistics depots. Documentary evidence establishes these depots were administered from Bagnoles-de- l’Orne and were a key component of the Seventh Army logistics network before and during the Normandy Campaign of June-August 1944. Post-war survival of features has been remarkably good in this forested setting and it is argued that this likely constitutes one of the best-preserved and most extensive examples of a non-hardened WW2 archaeological landscape yet documented in Western Europe. Keywords Conflict archaeology . Normandy . France . Logistics . Forests Introduction The study of military landscapes and historical archaeology has a long association that has its roots in the investigation of battlefield sites (e.g., Carman 2005). This associ- ation has subsequently contributed to the fast-maturing discipline of conflict archaeol- ogy and its embrace of a broader perspective and analysis of military activities and their Int J Histor Archaeol DOI 10.1007/s10761-015-0287-4 D. C. Tunwell Lieu Dit Le Point Du Jour, 61140 La Chapelle d’Andaine, France e-mail: david@transform.fr D. G. Passmore (*) Department of Geography, University of Toronto (Mississauga), 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada e-mail: david.passmore@utoronto.ca S. Harrison College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ, UK e-mail: Stephan.Harrison@exeter.ac.uk