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Just last week, someone found a unexploded grenade from WWI there : https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/p09il7/grenade_d%C3%A9couverte_au_d%C3%A9tour_dun_s
by maeln 5y ago
Just last week, someone found a unexploded grenade from WWI there : https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/p09il7/grenade_d%C3%A9couverte_au_d%C3%A9tour_dun_sentier/ https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/p09il7/grenade_d%C3...
It just goes to show the scale of the war when even after 100 years it is still common to find unexploded ammunitions.
- jabl 5y agoFarmers in France and Belgium plow up 900 tonnes of unexploded WWI munitions every year. In the more dangerous 'zone rouge', no human activity except professional cleanup crews are allowed. It is estimated that at the current rate of progress the cleanup will be done in 300-700 years. https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/05/26/the-real-no-go-zone-of-france-a-forbidden-no-mans-land-poisoned-by-war/ https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/05/26/the-real-no-go-zon...
- hef19898 5y agoNot to forget the abandoned mines in Belgium from the Messines campaign. Up to 20 tons of unexploded explosive per mine happily rotting under Belgium farms since 1917. And all the bombs still found in Germany. And the mines in the Baltic. And in former Yugoslavia. And all the mines from the various wars in Africa. And the depleted uranium ammo from the Gulf War. And the stuff, mines and agent orange for example, left in East Asia. Quite a long list of stuff to clean up.