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1 day ago · Perhaps the most dramatic episode in the tunnel war came at Messines Ridge in 1917. Over two years, British sappers had secretly dug over 8,000 meters of tunnels under the German-held ridge and packed them with nearly 1 million pounds of explosives. At 3:10 AM on June 7, they blew 19 massive mines in rapid succession, utterly destroying the ...
May 10, 2024 · Unearthing trenches in Belgium. This image, captured in 2003, is of a World War I -era trench that had, at the time, just been excavated near Ypres, Belgium. The team involved in the excavation ...
May 20, 2024 · The Western Front of World War I was defined by its brutal trench warfare. Soldiers on both sides dug miles of interconnected trenches, living in squalid conditions, surrounded by rats,...
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Reminds me of an account from a War Correspondent who visited the trenches during WW1. He tried matching the rhythm and pace that the artillery shells were falling by counting but it was too fast, so he tried blinking as fast he could but he still couldn’t match the pace, and then his teeth began to involuntarily chatter and he realized that teeth chatter more or less at the same rate that ...
2 days ago · Thanks to Doug @colour_history on Twitter for the use of the colourised image of men from the 1/4th East Lancashire Regiment in the trenches in January 1918. Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast. Podcast Extras: Trenches 1914-1918
May 10, 2024 · The German trenches, in particular, were often deeper than their British counterparts, with some dug-outs reaching up to 20 feet underground and reinforced with concrete. This gave German soldiers greater protection and comfort compared to their opponents. The zig-zag pattern of the trenches was another ingenious defense strategy.
No man's land in WWI evolved from a pre-war term to denote the deadly, unclaimable terrain riddled with hazards between opposing trenches. SuchScience Staff December 8, 2023
