Turret in Saint-Malo bears the scars of Allied shelling, looking closely, a shell can be seen still lodged in the metal



    by freudian_nipps

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    1. Carved through solid steel like it was clay, the sheer power of that barrage is kind of mind boggling… and it was done with damn near century old tech

    2. greenmachine11235 on

      Consider the damage those shells did. Then consider the fact that the shell that did not explode likely still contains its explosive charge. Be careful around UXO cause it can still kill you decades later, unfortunately the world likely hasn’t yet seen the last casualty of WWII. 

    3. This video has been shown a thousand times- the damage isn’t from actual combat.

      They use this pillbox for target practice. So yes the damage is real which is still insane, but this a collective decade of damage

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