HistoryPornEnglish • 1 year ago

Color photo of soldiers examining the 45 meter deep crater at Messines, WW1, 1917

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Color photo of soldiers examining the 45 meter deep crater at Messines, WW1, 1917

HistoryPornEnglish • 1 year ago

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11•1 year ago
Is that the one where the Brits dug a long tunnel under German positions and filled it with explosives, detonated remotely?
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  15•1 year ago
  Yes. Stellar quote from General Harington the night before the attack:
  
  “Gentlemen, I don’t know whether we are going to make history tomorrow, but at any rate we shall change geography”

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