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Fort Douaumont, before and after the Battle of Verdun, WW1, 1915-1916 (media.kbin.social)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Cratered it, even.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In use, I believe.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

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=

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Or a balloon, which they used in ww1 for observation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Some fascinating history, thanks for the note!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

They called them 'birds' back then

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Sabboton is great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeesh I think they missed a spot!