File:French officers inspecting mine crater 1915.jpg

French officers standing in a mine crater blown beneath German trenches in 1915, First World War.

Photo from The War Illustrated, 17 July 1915. Caption reads:

At a given signal a button is pressed, a loud report follows, and the earth is rent as by a seismic disturbance. Trenches and their human contents are obliterated, and the ground for hundreds of yards is calcined by the deadly dynamite. This photograph shows what the German trenches looked like after the explosion. Some French officers are inspecting the position.

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