Footage former Maas front trenches Holland

[Copper]

Great movie and understand exactly where you are coming from. For me though the rare occassions where you may destroy or damage something from the earth is heartbreaking as everything should be treasured. It all has a story to tell and I would love to work on a a battlefield someday. The closest I have been to excavating or working on WW2 sites was when I was given the job of drawing and mapping out the shore defences (pill boxes & anti-tank defences) in my part of the country. Although I did work at a Napoleonic era shore battery which was used as an AA site during WW2.

Quite interesting because the archivists uncovered German documents relating to the battery and noted that because it was on a cliff if the bombers came in under 50ft the AA guns could not lower that far... meaning that the bombers always came in low then when they approached the battery pulling up hard at the last minute got them over it unscathed on most occassions.