Searching for WW1 relics on the Verdun battlefield

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5 ай бұрын

WARNING please do NOT attempt to do this. Handling munitions, even those from the Great War, had been fatal even for those trained to do so.
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@cpt4tap703 5 ай бұрын

It’s crazy to me that over 100 years ago people lived, and died at the very spot you’re standing at. More-so is how you can touch things that possible killed people in that war. This is why i love history so much.

@1st-Law 5 ай бұрын

It’s crazy. In the US relic hunting is frowned upon or illegal due to most major battle fields being national landmarks. In Europe relic hunting is unavoidable.

@silasmerzenich 5 ай бұрын

Yes I live in Aachen(you know americas stalingrad) and its sich to see the remains of the fightings all over the streets I walk along every day

@DiggersDatabase 29 күн бұрын

I'm a metaldetectorist from Flanders, 90% of what I dig is WW1 related, no way around it. Mostly shrapnell lead and copper driving bands. Luckily I can use settings to ignore most of the iron :).

@68DefensiveT 5 ай бұрын

“Throw it” - you mad man

@StoriesoftheGreatWar 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, and that turned out to be a rifle grenade.

@VeryFastRodi 5 ай бұрын

The ww1 museum in verdun is also a good visit. You take a small cart through the original tunnels that were made inside an old fort. While wearing vr glasses you follow some french soldiers. Really well put together and tells the story quite well how live was for the soldiers.

@Useaname 21 күн бұрын

That sounds excellent

@VeryFastRodi 21 күн бұрын

@@Useaname Just dont forget to bring something of a jacket. It gets surprisingly chilly.

@Useaname 21 күн бұрын

@@VeryFastRodi cheers

@rustygirl5709 5 ай бұрын

Best vid yet,, When i lived in Dover England ,,, 22 miles from there, i did the same thing,, we found shell,s and knifes, lots off stuff,,, alas custom ,s would not let us through the tunnel,,, lol, but we got some empty shells,,, i used them to grow poppies, in,,

@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Ай бұрын

Ever spent a night out there? I wonder...these places can't be ghost-free. No way.

@DiggersDatabase 29 күн бұрын

I literally live on a former trench and I have yet to see a ghost. ;)

@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 29 күн бұрын

@@DiggersDatabase where is that? Ypres?

@DiggersDatabase 28 күн бұрын

@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 That region yes, it was a german trench in the backlines. Did not see heavy fighting until 1918 but there were artillery batteries around it troughout the war as I still find lots of cordite scattered around on the plowed field next to my house.

@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 28 күн бұрын

@@DiggersDatabase I lived in Ypres from 2001 until 2014. Also had a house up in Sint Elooi, right on top of the british lines. Some mine craters further down the road. Found loads of stuff there. And for ghosts, absolutely yes.

@JPB-wy5cl 27 күн бұрын

@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Just curious, what makes you say there are ghosts?

@peka003 5 ай бұрын

i saw remainings of ww1 battle here in Serbia,huge crater still there,surreal expiriance,it blows my mind how many people have died in these battles

@Crusty_Camper 29 күн бұрын

While working at a zoo in Belgium in the 80s, I had to help evacuate animals from part of the site after a mole had thrown up a hand grenade that looked very live. The experts ( DOVO ) came to deal with it and it turned out to be safe as it had no detonator and there was no explosive inside. You couldn't see it was empty without picking it up and nobody was foolish enough to try that. As I was the one who spotted it, I was given it as a souvenir - and I still have it.

@ProjectPast1565 5 ай бұрын

Wow! I’m in awe at how easy it was to find all that shrapnel. A brief snapshot as to just how much was flying through the air during the battle. Awesome video.

@jamesmoore9511 6 күн бұрын

War is such a waist of everything - people, resources, manufacturing, everything. So sad

@ilkeunkwon6965 5 ай бұрын

This is the best video on youtube

@TheHistoryUnderground 5 ай бұрын

That is wild.

@KimiF17954 3 ай бұрын

Wow, I knew that they fired loads of artillery but after 100 years still finding shrapnel and bombs is crazy.

@jimkoney4200 Ай бұрын

I remember sometime in the 1960’s Life magazine wrote an article on battlefield remains. A picture showed a mound skulls collected.

@GreekLady188 5 күн бұрын

appreciate you!

@alexvisser5913 27 күн бұрын

In ypress you can find live shells next to the road of the farmers field its almost unbelievable how deep the scars of war are in thise regions

@wutangshaolin4503 5 ай бұрын

Youngstown in the house !! Love the history respectn

@DiggersDatabase 29 күн бұрын

Sad truth, as a Belgian metaldetectorist in Ypres I can confirm. Makes for good videos of ww1 metaldetecting though.

@historyinyourhand1787 5 ай бұрын

Wow we found some crazy stuff out there, The Great War is truely all around you in Verdun

@jaredpeterson380 29 күн бұрын

I believe there is an shrine or maybe more than one close to the farmland where farmers can deposit bones they find while farming.

@gewoonsanne8589 Ай бұрын

Been there last oktober. Shrapnel everywhere! E V E R Y W H E R E. Also found bullets, shells, fuses everywere. The most unreal place ive ever been to.

@szariq7338 5 ай бұрын

I hope one day you'll be able to visit Poland to tell the tale of Eastern front. Osowiec, Przemyśl and even my home village are a part of it.

@StoriesoftheGreatWar 5 ай бұрын

Those are places I definitely want to visit as soon as I am able

@georgeshardy1878 Ай бұрын

L’artillerie française a elle seule a tirée au cours des 7 premiers mois 23 millions d’obus de tout calibre.............le 24 octobre 1916 nous avons tiré 240.000 obus ( que du côté français)

@bishop6218 5 ай бұрын

I live in the south part of the country, too bad there aren't any interesting battlefields here, i would've bought you a drink !

@paulwee1924dus Ай бұрын

Nice WW1 parts

@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul 16 күн бұрын

How many artillery shells were fired in Verdun? How many bullets?

@gregdiamond6023 5 ай бұрын

You all looked like you had a big time. I can’t believe so much is left over 100 years later. That’s wild to me. Unfortunately, there’s no way to identify any remains found. What’s ďone with them? Buried with their brothers in war or some local cemeteries?

@StoriesoftheGreatWar 5 ай бұрын

Remains are found often. They’re reburied in the closest military cemetery (which are all over the place).

@srf2112 Ай бұрын

That one guy that picked up the bomb almost became victim #301. Wow that was stupid.

@StoriesoftheGreatWar Ай бұрын

He's a retired Dutch marine veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan.

@srf2112 Ай бұрын

@@StoriesoftheGreatWar No disrespect intended but I do believe it was ill advised, am I wrong?

@StoriesoftheGreatWar Ай бұрын

@@srf2112 Oh I wouldn't have done it. I wouldn't say you're wrong at all.

@HistoryWarCinema 21 күн бұрын

@@srf2112if you know what you’re doing, then it should be fine, emphasis on if you know what you are doing. That one clearly didn’t have a fuse on it, could still have some explosive material in it, but still a slight chance it can go off. A very slight chance but still. Farmers pick these things up all the time to put them beside the road. This one was by the edge of the field, so probably placed there by the farmer. And it was put down straight away after checking it.

@srf2112 21 күн бұрын

@@HistoryWarCinema I had a close family member who worked in UXB, disposing of unexploded ordinance. He told me stories about mistakes made by experienced technicians. I wouldn't dare touch anything that's possibly still live.

@MiamiHeatClips 5 ай бұрын

How did you get permission to search? Ask the land owners? Also I’ve found and bought old ammunition before and it was confiscated in England even thought it’s never able to be used again, such a shame

@silasmerzenich 5 ай бұрын

You dont need a permission to walk around and pich things up you see randomly

@pierrev9629 7 күн бұрын

This is forbidden, i knew some americans that took 10 years of jail for that in normandy. i am a detectorist, the laws are very strict in france, but a lot of americans keep flooding our passion by this acts

@napoleonlempereur3021 Ай бұрын

3:06 wie lange werden denn Granaten dort noch gefährlich sein mögen?

@StoriesoftheGreatWar Ай бұрын

Ich weiß es nicht, aber ich möchte lieber auf Nummer sicher gehen.

@DiggersDatabase 29 күн бұрын

@@StoriesoftheGreatWar Always!

@markcherriman6136 Ай бұрын

Shell splinters NOT Shrapnel . Shrapnel is round lead balls from an airburst munition .

@StoriesoftheGreatWar Ай бұрын

You are referring to an older, historic definition. The meaning and usage of words change. Today, shrapnel is, by definition, "fragments of a bomb, shell, or other object thrown out by an explosion."

@gewoonsanne8589 Ай бұрын

But the lead balls are also everywhere, found 9 of m last october.

@DiggersDatabase 29 күн бұрын

@@gewoonsanne8589 It's 90 % of what I dig as a metaldetectorist from near Ypres. I do keep them in a big 30L jar. Almost full after 2 years of regular detecting :)