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To: pierrem15

Reading the Army’s official history of my Father’s WWII battalion, they once dug 18 mines out of a six by six foot plot of ground.

The Germans must have stacked them on top of each other.


12 posted on 03/20/2014 8:02:55 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: yarddog
Must have been very interesting reading, knowing your father had been among them.

UXB is no joke in Europe, a German backhoe operator was killed a couple of months ago by an unexploded bomb. If you read the story above, the Belgians are still decommissioning gas shells from WWI found a year or two ago.

16 posted on 03/20/2014 8:12:39 PM PDT by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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