Deminers comb Belgian countryside for remnants of Great War

Deminers comb Belgian countryside for remnants of Great War

Working with the utmost care, a Belgian deminer wiggled a century-old artillery shell from the soil and deposited it safely in a sandbox in the back of his truck.

Each year, teams are responding to more than 2,000 requests to remove ammunition during the preparation of the soil to land for sowing or building new houses Working with maximum care, a Belgian miner removed from the soil a hundred-year-old artillery projectile and safely deposited it in an air box behind his truck. In the northwest of Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of soldiers died from the conflict between 1914 and 1918, vestigials of t…

A Walk Through Brussels’ War Museum – Famagusta Gazette

By Tallis Reeve Brussels doesn’t shout about its past—it lets history speak in quiet reverence, preserved behind grand facades and cobbled streets. But step inside the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, and you’ll find yourself surrounded by the ghosts of war, the weight of history pressed into every artifact, every uniform, every battered engine of destruction. This is no sterile archive of dusty relics. It is a living, brea…

According to expert estimates, around 20 percent of the bombs remained in the ground as unexploded ones. It is a generational task to recover them.