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PugJesus@kbin.socialM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Fort Douaumont, before and after the Battle of Verdun, WW1, 1915-1916

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Fort Douaumont, before and after the Battle of Verdun, WW1, 1915-1916

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PugJesus@kbin.socialM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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    deleted by creator

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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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        deleted by creator

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          I still haven’t watched “They Shall Never Grow Old” because I’ll just bawl the whole time

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    Nice fort you have there. It would be a shame if someone… Flattened it…

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      Cratered it, even.

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      Babe wake up, it’s time for your ten month long flattening.

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    I didn’t realize USA had such good surveillance satellites up in the 1900s

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      Actually a lot of Google “satellite” imagery is from planes, as I assume this is.

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        Or a balloon, which they used in ww1 for observation

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          Some fascinating history, thanks for the note!

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        They called them ‘birds’ back then

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    So was this actually in use or was it collateral damage?

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      In use, I believe.

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        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.

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    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

    https://youtu.be/o9Gc4D4gV10?si=

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    Nowadays it’s open for visitors and well worth a visit.

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    Sabboton is great

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    Yeesh I think they missed a spot!

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