[Threepwood]

*Second* world war munition? The French are still trying to clean up the Somme valley, and the area around Verdun is a complete write-off. I doubt they'll ever get it cleaned up.

[Slings and Arrows]

*Second* world war munition? The French are still trying to clean up the Somme valley, and the area around Verdun is a complete write-off. I doubt they'll ever get it cleaned up.

See the link in post #2.

[kms61]

During WWI the allies dug five huge tunnels under the German side of the Ypres Salient, and packed then with a few hundred thousand pounds of explosives. They set three of them off. Two were left undetonated. One was set off by an electrical storm during the Sixties. The other one is still there waiting.

[SkyPilot]

The French are still trying to clean up the Somme valley, and the area around Verdun is a complete write-off. I doubt they'll ever get it cleaned up.

I was there 2 weeks ago---I have never, ever seen landscape like that. You can still see the craters, trenches, and tunnels after all these years. A few years back two military officers went into a former "red zone" and quickly blew up. Incredible.