Messines

 

Shell holes and craters and ditches and trenches filled with treacherous mud and water.
Messines, south of Ypres (Belgium) saw endless and hopeless fighting. Finally, in June 1917, the allies succesfully captured the area from the Germans. Nineteen mines were detonated in tunnels digged deep under the German strongholds. Some 10,000 Germans were killed during the explosion alone.


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