Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#1
a very intreasting article on tonights meridian news,featering Verdun, a very dodgy place if you want to explor the wood lands and fields around the area.
http://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-i/this-red-zone-in-france-is-so-dangerous-100-years-after-wwi-it-is-still-a-no-go-area.htmlJan Higgins likes this
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#2
300 days of continual shelling caused this,100 years later they still clearing live ammo from the woods and fields, it may take another 100 years or more to clear.
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Guest 2547- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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#3
The Red Zone is a horrendous testimony to 20th century history. I can't help but wonder what our perspective would be if this had happened in Kent.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#4
good [point brian
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#5
So we are agreed that it is not a place to play hop scotch.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#7
no howard more hop skip and blown up.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#8
Indeed Brian
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