Artillery fire on both sides was constant this. Entire villages were wiped off the map and. Never before had so many soldiers been killed in such a limited area. Or Dead Mans Hill was the scene of particularly bitter fighting. At the end of the Battle One Of The Hills Two summits was ten meters lower than it was before. Served as a laboratory for testing new weapons the german army fired poison gas in shells here for the first time. This allowed for more accurate targeting. The effect on french troops was devastating. The battle lasted from february to december one Nine Hundred Sixteen. A total of about Sixty Million shells were fired. When these missions corrode the casing comes off of it a lot of them youre left with stuff like t. N. T. High explosive which is a percentage of so now you have the constituent weight on the bottom of the ocean which will continually. Put stuff in the environment like that for the next thousand years. These materials accumulate in the ecosystem and pose
but the officials have no documents to prove that it s been confirmed that the aircraft that sprayed the chemicals were decontaminated here but it s not clear whether any of the chemicals got into the soil. a few years ago the local mayor put up barbed wire and other barriers to keep cattle from drinking water from pools that had formed in bomb craters. after the war people started moving back into the area later there was an increase in the number of miscarriages. it wasn t until two thousand and two that local residents first heard reports about the dangers of dioxin they used to drink water that came directly from a nearby river. this is capital of vietnam experts at a research institute here have been studying the effects of the war on the environment. the late dr for quis