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December 13, 2009
Trench of Bayonets | Verdun, France
On 12th of June 1916 Germans unleashed a hailstorm of iron and lead upon French positions.
The attack caught the French by surprise. The 137th Regiment of French infantry was annihilated almost to a man. Years after the war the French teams exploring the battle field uncovered the clues of horrific faith of this regiment. One of the trenches was discovered completely filled in, with only a neat line of bayonets sticking out of the ground. Bayonets were still fixed to their rifles. A body was found next to each rifle. The 3rd company of 137th regiment was buried alive, almost instantaneously, dieing where they stood. -- Atlas Obscura
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Once upon a time I worked for a company that made, among other things, metal detectors to be installed in combine harvesters. These were only for European models. The detector was installed in the chute leading to the thresher. If it picked up any metal larger than a nail or a washer, the thresher instantly shut down.
They needed this because the farm fields of Europe still hold an enormous amount of metal from bombs, artillery shells and other relics of wars. Buried for decades, frost heaves the metal up over the years until it reaches the surface, where the harvester can pick it up.
A chunk of metal hitting the thresher can cause mechanical havoc and necessitate expensive repairs. That's bad enough. But an unexploded shell or hand grenade arriving into the thresher could ruin someone's whole life.
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