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First World War battlefield in Verdun still a danger
ITV REPORT ^
| 7 August 2018 at 5:50pm
| ITV News Europe Editor James Mates
Posted on 08/07/2018 4:43:59 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: robowombat
So many bones, what to do with them all?
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posted on
08/07/2018 5:25:38 PM PDT
by
Dogbert41
(When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
To: Last Dakotan
There’s a lot of disparaging of French courage on this site, but if you read anything about WWI - crazy brave!
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posted on
08/07/2018 5:26:42 PM PDT
by
Reily
To: Dogbert41
The chapel there is amazing.
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posted on
08/07/2018 5:28:46 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Big City turn me loose and set me free...)
To: Paratrooper
Mustard in its various forms is a highly persistent agent and for that reason was universally disliked by all militaries after WW 1. It was , however, the most effective agent for some 25 more years which is why the Italians used it in Ethiopia, the Spanish and French in the final campaigns of the Riff War and the Japanese apparently against China and the Soviets against Central Asian rebels in the 1920s.
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posted on
08/07/2018 5:29:42 PM PDT
by
robowombat
(Orthodox)
To: Last Dakotan
Someone here on FR mentioned that the Russians averaged losing 5000 men a day for the entire war in WWII.
I didn’t believe it until I ran the numbers. It was true!
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posted on
08/07/2018 5:30:35 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: virgil
The battle plan for Verdun was to bleed the Allies...but it turned into an accelerating quagmire for both sides.
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posted on
08/07/2018 5:38:45 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Reily
Well said. The French army was also the rear guard so the British could retreat to then evacuate from Dunkirk.
To: robowombat
I read that there are at least a couple of unexploded ‘mines’ containing many tons of explosives that have not yet been found. Their locations were lost decades ago.
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posted on
08/07/2018 5:40:25 PM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: yarddog
USSR military dead 8,668,000 to 11,400,000
USSR civilian dead due to war 4,500,000 to 10,000,000
USSR civilian dead due to famine and disease 8,000,000 to 9,000,000
Total USSR dead in WW2 20,000,000 to 27,000,000
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posted on
08/07/2018 5:40:43 PM PDT
by
packrat35
(Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
To: yarddog
Russian dead in WW 1 was still high but nothing like WW2
2,840,000 to
3,394,369
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posted on
08/07/2018 5:43:09 PM PDT
by
packrat35
(Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
To: hanamizu
There is one of the huge mines Gen Plumer had put in place for the Arras operation in March 1917 still unexploded. These were really big mines. When detonated the explosion was clearly heard in the SE UK. There is a book,’Ear Underground’ which covers this episode in fascinating detail.
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posted on
08/07/2018 5:43:48 PM PDT
by
robowombat
(Orthodox)
To: yarddog
I believe that had something to do with his being so careful in WWII.
Getting shot will do that to a person.
L
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posted on
08/07/2018 5:45:55 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: Hootowl99
Thank you!
Historically the French soldier is excellent!
Unfortunately in modern times they’re usually betrayed by their political leadership. The French Army was often given inferior equipment, indifferent support and put into impossible situations (Thinking Dien Bin Phu!).
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posted on
08/07/2018 5:51:48 PM PDT
by
Reily
To: robowombat
Then there were the hundreds (perhaps thousands - no one cared about the civilians) of casualties from US mustard gas in World War II.
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posted on
08/07/2018 5:54:48 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: robowombat
That's “War Underground’. Damned spellcheck.
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posted on
08/07/2018 5:58:01 PM PDT
by
robowombat
(Orthodox)
To: PAR35
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posted on
08/07/2018 6:02:19 PM PDT
by
packrat35
(Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
To: packrat35
My Great Uncle was gassed in WWI.
He was very popular with the girls as he had a pension and this was a poor area.
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posted on
08/07/2018 6:08:02 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: lepton
Farmer’s plows have been known to hit and set off unexploded ordnance resulting in horrific injuries and/or death.
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posted on
08/07/2018 6:23:45 PM PDT
by
FLT-bird
To: yarddog
The Great War, overall, killed nearly 10,000 men a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, for over four years.
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posted on
08/07/2018 6:31:47 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: virgil
More than a few bones. Almost every week French farmers, bring boxes of bones found in their fields to Fort Douaumont at Verdun. Here a French Army pathologist determines if the bones are human. If they are, the bones are turned over to a French Army Chaplain. He takes the bones to the Ossuary. There the bones are placed among the bones of, by some estimates, 130,000 men. This has been going on since the ossuary was dedicated in 1937.
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