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To: NYer

RIP.


19 posted on 10/19/2013 2:02:09 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

If you go climbing or walking in the Dolomites, as I frequently have, you still come across many visible relics of the fighting. Barbed wire emplacements, dugouts, tunnels, artillery positions are still there virtually unchanged apart from the gradual depradations of weather. Most of the familiar history of the First World War centres on the trench warfare on the Western Front: but the fighting in the Italian Alps was every bit as terrible. Enduring shellfire in the mud and soft ground of Flanders was one thing: enduring shellfire in the bare rock terrain of the Alps quite another. Entire battalions were also lost in the snow.


20 posted on 10/19/2013 2:29:01 PM PDT by Winniesboy
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