Lots of pics at the link. An interesting tidbit of history.
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To: Neil E. Wright
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.
2 posted on
01/27/2012 11:51:47 PM PST by
Psalm 144
(Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
To: Neil E. Wright
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.
3 posted on
01/27/2012 11:59:02 PM PST by
SatinDoll
(NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT)
To: Neil E. Wright
Wow. we are nothing, as free men, but for their wretched determination.
Very humbling.
Hope I never suffer rot foot
4 posted on
01/28/2012 12:08:32 AM PST by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Neil E. Wright
5 posted on
01/28/2012 12:09:07 AM PST by
patriot08
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To: Neil E. Wright
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.
7 posted on
01/28/2012 12:23:49 AM PST by
edge919
To: Neil E. Wright
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
8 posted on
01/28/2012 1:31:29 AM PST by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: Neil E. Wright
Anybody know of any books highlighting the deeds of the tunnel rats from Viet Nam?
19 posted on
01/28/2012 3:40:11 AM PST by
Safetgiver
(I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
To: Neil E. Wright
Wasn’t one of these underminings used in the largest conventional explosions ever touched off? They went under the German position and BANG...
26 posted on
01/28/2012 5:39:48 AM PST by
TalBlack
( Evil doesn't have a day job.)
To: Neil E. Wright
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.
30 posted on
01/28/2012 5:53:47 AM PST by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
To: Neil E. Wright
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.
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