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Title: Paschendale - Today. 100 years ago
Post by: Koppi on October 26, 2017, 08:35:29 PM

German Text ... by me
English text ... by Iron Maiden
Pictures ... by me from "In Flanders Fields Museum" Ypern, Belgium.

https://thrifles.blogspot.de/2017/10/passchendaele-heute-vor-100-jahren.html

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Title: Re: Paschendale - Today. 100 years ago
Post by: Mick_in_Switzerland on October 26, 2017, 08:46:19 PM

Thank-you for posting. I always enjoy you museum posts.

Have you been to Verdun? I think you would find it fascinating.

Title: Re: Paschendale - Today. 100 years ago
Post by: wrgmr1 on November 11, 2017, 10:54:05 PM

Yes, thanks for posting.
Here is the final battle scene from a Canadian movie, Paschendale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUox_hQAih8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUox_hQAih8)

Title: Re: Paschendale - Today. 100 years ago
Post by: Sterling Moose on November 18, 2017, 04:59:04 AM

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Here is the final battle scene from a Canadian movie, Passchendaele.

Definitely a movie worth forgetting.

Title: Re: Paschendale - Today. 100 years ago
Post by: Driscoles on November 18, 2017, 07:00:07 AM

Thanks Koppi.

Title: Re: Paschendale - Today. 100 years ago
Post by: fred on November 18, 2017, 08:09:14 AM

Haunting.

Title: Re: Paschendale - Today. 100 years ago
Post by: Inkpaduta on November 18, 2017, 06:30:21 PM

Just went over the battle in my World War I class yesterday.
Such a sad event.

Title: Re: Paschendale - Today. 100 years ago
Post by: Metternich on November 23, 2017, 07:25:18 PM

Very, very grim.  The movie well portrayed the horror of close range fighting.