In a six-day preliminary bombardment, the French artillery fired 855,264 shells, including more than half a million 75 mm field-gun shells, a hundred thousand 155 mm medium artillery shells and three hundred and seventy-three 370 mm and 400 mm super-heavy shells, from more than 700 guns and howitzers.

2015年8月12日 · The battlefield of Verdun scarred with shell craters. Photo credit. On the first day alone, the Germans sent 140,000 soldiers to attack the French town. Supported by 1,200 artillery guns, they blasted hundreds of thousands of shells at the Verdun region.

2016年2月19日 · In a war known for its brutality, the Battle of Verdun, (February 21–December 18, 1916), was among the longest and bloodiest conflicts of World War I. In the battle that slogged on for 10 months,...

During the period between late February and late December, 1916, the German and French armies facing each other at Verdun fired approximately 10,000,000 shells at each other from their mortars and guns. The total weight of the artillery battle alone was over 1.3 million tons.

2018年11月10日 · Today a forest blankets the battlefields. But it cloaks perhaps millions of dud shells, tens of thousands of bodies and one of the most toxic sites in France. The front lines crisscrossed the...

2014年8月4日 · Farmers and hikers around Verdun say they regularly find discarded artillery shells and grenades, vestiges of the war that are still potentially lethal.

2016年2月21日 · After a crucial week’s delay that allowed last-minute French reinforcements to assume positions behind hastily constructed defenses, on the morning of February 21 the German assault on Verdun – a...

2012年6月27日 · Over 45 million artillery shells were fired in the 10 month battle. Whilst there we visited some Casemates (bunkers), Fort Douaumont and the incredible Douaumont Ossuary where tens of thousands are buried and hundreds of …

100,000 shells poured into Verdun every hour, Wilhelm's intention being to kill the majority of the French defenders before the infantry even started their advance into the fortress. An optimistic assessment, a German scouting party sent in following the initial bombardment later that day reported half of the French fighting force remained to ...

Verdun is 4-5 hours drive from the Channel ports. It is the site of a famous French battle in the Great War - trying to hold the line at all costs. Many villages were destroyed and never re-built, and the land still bears the scars of battle.