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There’s a universe where the Christmas Truce has held to this day, and I wish I was in that one.
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I still haven’t watched “They Shall Never Grow Old” because I’ll just bawl the whole time
Nice fort you have there. It would be a shame if someone… Flattened it…
Cratered it, even.
Babe wake up, it’s time for your ten month long flattening.
So was this actually in use or was it collateral damage?
In use, I believe.
It was mostly abandoned when the French realised how little resistance similar structures in Belgium had offered to German heavy artillery. The Germans took it without much of a fight, then the French took it back a few months later much the same way.
Fort Douaumont was one fort that fell along with Fort Vaux which saw some hellacious fighting in it’s corridors. Just made a post about it after seeing this one: https://lemmy.world/post/11304986
I didn’t realize USA had such good surveillance satellites up in the 1900s
Actually a lot of Google “satellite” imagery is from planes, as I assume this is.
Or a balloon, which they used in ww1 for observation
Some fascinating history, thanks for the note!
They called them ‘birds’ back then
Nowadays it’s open for visitors and well worth a visit.
Sabboton is great
Yeesh I think they missed a spot!
