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Posted: 5/30/2016 9:03:34 PM EDT
The Lochnagar crater (pictured) was created when miners from the 185th and 179th Tunnelling Company of the British Army's Royal Engineers Regiment detonated a 60,000lb mine under the German trenches. Captain James Young pressed the switch at 7.28am. When the dust settled the crater was occupied by a pals' battalion called the Grimsby Chums, but within hours the German artillery had started pounding it with shells Lots more pics, and a good mini history lesson: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3610407/Scars-Somme-Time-healed-landscape-100-years-fields-signs-battle-claimed-300-000-lives.html |
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Posted: 5/30/2016 9:16:08 PM EDT
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Thanks, OP. Great photos. I grew up in Canada and we studied WWI quite a bit in school. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 5/30/2016 9:18:34 PM EDT
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While good in theory, those big assed mines were usually more trouble than they were worth.
The stories of mine/counter mine and the underground fights in the dark are hair raising. |
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Posted: 5/30/2016 9:20:01 PM EDT
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While good in theory, those big assed mines were usually more trouble than they were worth. The stories of mine/counter mine and the underground fights in the dark are hair raising. Where can one find such stories? |
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Posted: 5/30/2016 9:23:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/30/2016 9:27:57 PM EDT
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While good in theory, those big assed mines were usually more trouble than they were worth. The stories of mine/counter mine and the underground fights in the dark are hair raising. I read a book a while ago. Hand to hand fighting with wooden tools when running into Germans under ground by accident. Setting mines when hearing opposite tunnellers, cave ins etc etc Astonishing and little known. |
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Posted: 5/30/2016 9:30:21 PM EDT
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While good in theory, those big assed mines were usually more trouble than they were worth. The stories of mine/counter mine and the underground fights in the dark are hair raising. Where can one find such stories? http://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Flanders-Fields-Tunnellers-1914-18/dp/0773543015 |
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Posted: 5/30/2016 10:11:35 PM EDT
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While good in theory, those big assed mines were usually more trouble than they were worth. The stories of mine/counter mine and the underground fights in the dark are hair raising. Where can one find such stories? http://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Flanders-Fields-Tunnellers-1914-18/dp/0773543015 Awesome. Thanks |
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Posted: 5/30/2016 10:18:53 PM EDT
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There are still unexploded mines and flamethrowers & other stuff under there. The flamethrowers I read about in 'Chemical Soldiers; British gas warfare in World War one'. I think there were a few Livens flamethrowers that were buried but never used.
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