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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Secretly dug by the British beneath a German field fortification, the underground explosives were set off on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
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There were 19 such mines dug for the Battle of Messines, 3 did not go off
one blew up in 1955.. took out a couple of cows.
the 2 left, have about 400 tonnes of Ammonal(Tannerite) in them and are near a village.
17 big ponds in the area
