Vimy Ridge - Tunnels and Trenches
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There 4 days ago absolutley freezing at 7.00 in the morning
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Thanks for sharing
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I was there last week. The Canada memorial just down the road is very impressive.
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Good tour guide!
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You should visit the Verdun-sector. I spend 6 weeks there every year. And I specially recommend visiting Butte de Vauquois between the Argonneforrest and Verdun. The top of this hil spanns about 300 x 200 meter and there are 16km of german tunnels and 8 km of french tunnels inside the hill. The village that was situated there before the war was blown away by minewarfare from 1915-1918. The deepest tunnels are over 100 meters under the surface.
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Any guidance on locating online diaries would be appreciated - failing that I will purchase diaries and personal acounts (factual prefered please we most often live in fiction :-) lots of trash out there on the net..
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To me in order for you to truely appreciate what it was like is to hear it from those that fought and lived through it - or not.. God bless them all - on all sides that fought, lived and died - for what Politics? nothing was decided at the end of the great war short of how to kill people faster and cheaper - it ended only to foster the greater human loss known as WW2 - RIP all brave soles who dies or were wounded based on politics - great video BTW
very well presented - a fine tribute.
careandconcern 4 years ago 5
I was there in 1989 and was very moved. I just saw the Hell and Earth session on Vimy and was very moved that they recently found more tunnels (not opened to the public (AFAIK)) I was so moved when I toured Vimy (and Verdun) it re-ignited my passion for history and I continue to this day to find as many personal accounts- read non news / PR type accounts - true diaries of people that fought in and experienced true WW1 experiences.
Northerntrooper 3 years ago