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To: ccmay

Passchendaele had trenches?

The stories I read about it seemed to concentrate on the swampy, mirey, impenetrable muck.


89 posted on 02/19/2009 1:10:42 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring
Passchendaele had trenches? The stories I read about it seemed to concentrate on the swampy, mirey, impenetrable muck.


All of the above.

Soldiers drowned in the muddy water at the trench bottoms after wounds that would otherwise be survivable.

90 posted on 02/19/2009 1:45:47 AM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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