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Current photos of WWI battlefields
June 01, 2018, 02:55 PM
YooperSigsVery interesting. I watched an old movie recently about the WWII German rocket base at Peenemunde. I looked at the site on Google Earth and the base is easily seen and so are many bomb craters.
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Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
June 01, 2018, 03:53 PM
Sig209cool
currently reading Rommel's WW1 book 'Infantry Attacks'
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June 01, 2018, 06:57 PM
callibirdVery nice, thank you for sharing.
And is it just me, or did that first photo look like and old style Scottish links golf course?
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June 01, 2018, 08:18 PM
Lord Vaalicquote:
Originally posted by Sig209:
cool
currently reading Rommel's WW1 book 'Infantry Attacks'
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So did Patton....
Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day June 01, 2018, 08:28 PM
mikeyspizzaGood photos.
June 01, 2018, 08:43 PM
prepsheriffSobering...
Airborne ! All the Way!!
June 02, 2018, 06:59 PM
Sigmundquote:
Originally posted by prepsheriff:
Sobering...
It's impossible to imagine the carnage on these battlefields. On one of my trips to Europe I spent a couple days in Ypres and saw the usual sights. I remember visiting the Tyne Cot Cemetery and another with something like 50,000 unknowns.
In the city, I watched the ceremony where the buglers play "Last Post" every night.
Very sad.
June 02, 2018, 07:34 PM
ulstermanVery sobering
June 02, 2018, 09:53 PM
Rey HRHIt's been a hundred years. I didn't realize there were so many battlefields remaining. I thought they would have been built over.
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June 03, 2018, 07:45 AM
TMatsMy grandfather was with the 89th Division in WWI. One of my biggest regrets is not having an opportunity to talk to him about it. He was killed in a car wreck while on a fishing trip when I was just 3.
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June 03, 2018, 05:45 PM
jjkroll32The Great War channel on youtube is an excellent 4 year study of this week-by-week history of WWI recounting the actions of 100 years ago.
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June 03, 2018, 08:53 PM
comet24Thanks for posting.
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June 04, 2018, 11:06 PM
redstoneI first studied WWI seriously as a grad student taking 20th century US military history. I will never get over reading the stats and realizing that I had already lived longer than these millions I was reading about. The scale of the suffering is mind boggling.
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