Saw this today on the BBC looks like its going have some decent finds.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7246038.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7246038.stm
Belgian soil hides battle scars
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hahaha, next time they should just ask the PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE for information first, before pissing off the farmers with all their random digging.
There's another group called The Diggers that excavate the trenches in Flanders that I've learned about while researching the Iron Europe Mod.
I'm not sure, but I thought I heard the local or national government in this region was building (or built) a multi-lane freeway across this area, just north of the town of Langemark and Ypres. This was constructed over some of the old WWI battlegrounds of the Ypres Salient.
In the U.S a week ago, they had a few stories on WWI on NBC news.
WWI is really hardly ever discussed here (I can't remember the last time the History Channel has ran a show about WWI infantry battles, though they've had a few on airplanes); someone said the Military Channel ran some shows, but I don't get that), so it was quite a surprise when I saw this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/22768124#22768124"
Is the reporter pronouncing the name of Ypres correctly??; an American author wrote that Ypres is pronounced "ee-pruh."
The following video was not broadcast on TV and was only at their web site; so I still have never seen Tyne Cot cemetery mentioned on U.S. television:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/22768305#22768305"
This is about a blog that a British man put up about his relative who fought in the First World War; he publishes the letters on the same day the soldier wrote them, ninety years later:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/23073595#23073595"
http://www.wwar1.blogspot.com/
I'm not sure, but I thought I heard the local or national government in this region was building (or built) a multi-lane freeway across this area, just north of the town of Langemark and Ypres. This was constructed over some of the old WWI battlegrounds of the Ypres Salient.
In the U.S a week ago, they had a few stories on WWI on NBC news.
WWI is really hardly ever discussed here (I can't remember the last time the History Channel has ran a show about WWI infantry battles, though they've had a few on airplanes); someone said the Military Channel ran some shows, but I don't get that), so it was quite a surprise when I saw this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/22768124#22768124"
Is the reporter pronouncing the name of Ypres correctly??; an American author wrote that Ypres is pronounced "ee-pruh."
The following video was not broadcast on TV and was only at their web site; so I still have never seen Tyne Cot cemetery mentioned on U.S. television:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/22768305#22768305"
This is about a blog that a British man put up about his relative who fought in the First World War; he publishes the letters on the same day the soldier wrote them, ninety years later:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/23073595#23073595"
http://www.wwar1.blogspot.com/
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im from belgium, and i have been to ypres in the flanders fields museum.
the reporter is not pronouncing it correctly in any way.
Ypres is the french name of the city, pronounced: eepre
but the real flemish name is actually "ieper", pronounced: eeper
in that part of flanders they have a verry strong accent and dialect, thats why the author probably thought it was ee-pruh, but thats not correct dutch.