Hi All,
I'm about to start the ground work on a new dio, and I need to know what the roads out side of cities and towns were made of in France during WW II. I know cobblestone was used a lot, but what else? Any help is appreciated.

Brian;
I'm by no means an expert, but in most of the documentary footage I've seen the roads were mostly just dirt, or in some cases with gravel added. I'm sure you'll get other responses, though.

Art

I think that cobblestones were mainly used inside the cites/towns themselves, with dirt or gravel roads, like Art said, leading into them.

Yup, that's what I was thinking, but I just wanted to be sure. Thanks.

Brian,

Part of the answer would depend on what you are depicting. If one were only concerned with the small roads connecting farms and through areas that were very rural such as in some places in Normandy you would find dirt roads, but at the same time many of the roads connecting one village, city, or hamlet to another will be of a more permanent composition, i.e. pavers, cobblestones.

Jay

I think you'll find that the vast majority of roads in France in the 1940s (apart from farm tracks) were actually tarmac. As in any other country in fact.

We are talking 1940s right? Perhaps surprising for the majority who have replied, but the infrastructure in France in the 1940s was surprisingly modern. They even had electricity, running water and radio. Surprising eh? ...Jim

As an avid watcher of tour de france france also still has a large network of cobblestone road between villages and still to this day race over them on pushbikes,possibly also old roman roads, hell it adds to more variety and as someone once told me there is always a prototype to beat a genalisation
Ian

Thanks for setting the record straight Jim ! The first tests of road tarring in France had been made in 1902...

Frenchy