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    The HELL of Verdun or how they earned them

    OK guys,

    here are the first pictures from my last trip to the biggest battlefield ever.

    During our stay there we met the dutch "Battle of Verdun Website-Team" from

    http://home.wanadoo.nl/battleofverdun

    For the old report (in German) and our old pics see

    http://www.rkwetterau.de

    Link is in the middle of the page!
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    The biggest dud grenade we ever saw on the battlefields!!! A GIANT french 240 mm grenade on the Mort Homme (hill "Dead Man/Toter Mann"). Don't touch or you get a free flight to Jupiter! The little one on the left is a french 75 mm shrapnell with time fuse.
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      A round french mess tin in the Chapitre forest (Bois de Vaux Chapitre).
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        A french F1 handgrenade on the Mort Homme.
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          Thats how the F1 looked like:
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            A very interesting item. The German Mittlere Wurfmine 17 cm found on the Hill 304 (Cote 304).
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              A partly collapsed dugout on Cote 304. NEVER ENTER SUCH HOLES!
              Who knows how many dead soldiers are still inside...
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                Given the number of explosives clearance team members who are STILL killed every year, I suppose it is no surprise that no one would want to risk being buried alive in a bunker cave in...


                still, it makes you wonder how many of the "missing" might be accoiunted for, finally, if they were discovered inside.

                Thanks for all the tour threads, Jens!

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                  Rick, it is estimated that about 50 000 000 (!!!) grenades were fired in the area around Verdun and that about 20 % of them were duds! Someone calculated that France will be completely cleared of duds in 700 (!!!) years!

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                    Jens,

                    Very interesting indeed. I was there in Verdun, too a couple of years ago and was emotionally very moved when I saw places like the "Ossuaire", Fort Douamont and the local museum.

                    I have read somewhere (can't remember where) that in the seventies a thunder in a field in France ignited an hidden ammunition's depot, leaving a huge creater...

                    Ciao,

                    Claudio

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                      I forgot something. After the war the Mort Homme and Cote 304 were measured new and they noticed, that both hills were 7 m lower than before the war. The artilleries moved mountains...

                      We used a GPS to measure Cote 304 and had exactly 297 m!

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