Amazing footage of WWI battlefields

Biggles · 11-05-10, 01:12 PM

Passchendaele

Really incredibly devastation from that war. I actually visited Ypres in April. Beautiful town, really no trace of the war anywhere...and not a single building older than 90 years I believe! Also, the war monument in commemoration of the BEF-soldiers who fell is quite a feast for the eyes. Huge place with thousands and thousands of names of fallen soldiers...what's really sad is that it only shows the BEF soldiers from that specific area, and not the unknown dead, the French, Americans or the Germans! Right bloody war that was...

11-05-10, 01:12 PM	#6
Biggles Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sweden (I'm not a Viking...) Posts: 3,529 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Passchendaele Really incredibly devastation from that war. I actually visited Ypres in April. Beautiful town, really no trace of the war anywhere...and not a single building older than 90 years I believe! Also, the war monument in commemoration of the BEF-soldiers who fell is quite a feast for the eyes. Huge place with thousands and thousands of names of fallen soldiers...what's really sad is that it only shows the BEF soldiers from that specific area, and not the unknown dead, the French, Americans or the Germans! Right bloody war that was... __________________

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