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UXO from my last trip in France last summer. I stumbled across the German 77 in a farmer's field north of Reims near the Chemin des Dames. The other piles were collected by farmers near Verdun. I also came across a chemical grenade in a freshly-plowed field about 100 meters from that stack, but I just marked the spot and left it.
The other pic is a view from a hill along the French lines across no-mans' land toward German lines along the aptly name Dead Man's Hill (Le Mort Homme). Back in 2008, we met with the local farmers who were dredging the pond in the middle. They had amassed a giant pile of exploded and unexploded ordnance for disposal there.
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