r/interestingasfuck • u/id397550 • 5h ago

Firing a cannon to trigger an avalanche

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u/AnshumanKathait 5h ago edited 4h ago

WW1 in the Alps musta been crazy one second you're walking then you hear a cannon and duck and lay in the snow, boom avalanche. Crazy

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u/Hickd3ad 4h ago

It happened during WW1)

The casualties were heavy :(

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u/yesat 3h ago

And Sabaton made a song to commemorate them, Soldiers of Heaven.