My trip to Ieper (Ypres) and the First World War

[Woobie]

Awesome pictures!

I've recently listened to Dan Carlins Hardcore History series called Blueprint for Armageddon. It's all about WWI. Good to put some pictures, modern and old, of the palces he was discussing.

Me too! I think of all the horrors of that war, Passchendaele is the one that just leaves me in awe.

 

[Sylvain]

I don't know how I missed this back in June. Thanks for posting!

I missed it too.

Fitting bump for Veteran's Day, November 11th, that marks the end of WW1.

I visited some US cemeteries in the region, both from WW1 and WW2.In belgium and northern France.
I think the largest WW1 cemetery in the region, the Meuse-Argonne American cemetery has over 14,000 graves.
And that's just one single cemetery.

You can barely see the crosses from that view ...