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10h 5min, nov 1, 1916 y - Battle of the Somme

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A week of long artillery bombardment that was supposed to destroy German defences that instead created a no man’s land of mess. The battle lasted five months and had casualties of 420,000 British soldiers, 200,000 French soldiers, and 500,000 German soldiers all within a radius of 25 miles.

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10h 5min, nov 1, 1916 y
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~ 107 years ago
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