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Cutaway of a well-established Imperial German trench, WW1 (lemmy.world)
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[–] tilefan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

right but when they were building complex underground structures like this, they called in experienced miners. every country already had lots of experience digging underground. Britain used coal miners