Lochnagar Crater is probably the most famous (and terrible) residues at the senseless slaughter of the Somme (World War I - I, France). The scale of Lochnagar Crater is huge (more than 90 meters wide and 30 meters deep.) The Lochnagar Crater was (also known as known as "The Moles") of a gigantic subterranean explosion of British soldiers from the Royal Engineer tunneling companies that excavated set formed a 600 meters' attack tunnel "under the German trenches, where they placed and detonated two mines on 1 July 1916 briefly - it is not the British too much and the Battle of the Somme raged for a further 4 months in which more than 420,000 European men lost their lives. The Battle of the Somme was truly a war within a war, which was also the first operation in the history that the tank was used. Adolf Hitler was wounded in this battle (it's a shame that he did not die from the injury ...)
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