[Neil E. Wright]

Lots of pics at the link. An interesting tidbit of history.

“Where liberty dwells, there is my country." –Benjamin Franklin

Islam Delenda Est!

REFUSE. RESIST. Do NOT Submit! ★FREEDOM!★

[Psalm 144]

Of all the wars of any century, fought by any people on any continent, none haunt me or churn my guts like the Western Front, 1914 - 1918. May they rest in peace, and may God keep them all. All of them.

[SatinDoll]

Incredible stories!

My grandfather, born in Ohio, was of German heritage. His father disinherited his son for fighting against the Fatherland in WWI.

Poor grandpa! He was hit with mustard gas and had scarred lungs the rest of his life. He worked as a journeyman electrician and my grandmother as a cook to support their family during the depression. When he broke his back while working on a dam project, it was really tough on the family.

His oldest son, my Uncle Jim, served in the Army in WWII. My Uncle John served in the Marines during the Korean conflict. In the next generation, my cousin Chris served in the Airforce while I served in the Navy.

If you want to live and breathe free, you have to fight to stay free.

[Vendome]

Wow. we are nothing, as free men, but for their wretched determination.

Very humbling.

Hope I never suffer rot foot

[patriot08]

Interesting. Thanks

[edge919]

This would be fascinating to tour, but very eerie and depressing. Amazing that something like this becomes a permanent landmark, so to speak. Thanks for sharing it.

[naturalman1975]

Anyone who finds 'Birdsong' interesting, should also check out the recent Australian film 'Beneath Hill 60'. While most of the mining units were British, there were some Australian units among them as well, and this film concentrated on one of those units.

Trailer at YouTube

[Safetgiver]

Anybody know of any books highlighting the deeds of the tunnel rats from Viet Nam?

[TalBlack]

Wasn’t one of these underminings used in the largest conventional explosions ever touched off? They went under the German position and BANG...

[bert]

There is a great TV series World War I in Color.

One segment visits these tunnels and has color footage taken at the time. It goes into a fair amount of detail describing the tunneling effort on both sides.

[Winniesboy]

There was a very different kind of mining and countermining on a much less well-known First World War front, the Austro/Italian front in the Dolomites. Here all the advantage was in the command of height, and a number of positions were destroyed by blowing off mountain-tops. Much of the impedimenta of war can still be seen there, more or less intact, including mining tunnels which have been incoporated into via ferrata aided climbing routes.