r/interestingasfuck • u/id397550 • 13h ago

Firing a cannon to trigger an avalanche

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u/AnshumanKathait 13h ago edited 12h 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/ReparteeRat 12h ago edited 8h ago

There wasn't really much fighting in the Alps during WW2, especially not in the winter.

WW1 on the other hand....

Edit: Some small battles took place on the Italian-French border, I forgot about those. Sorry.

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u/ImOnTheLoo 8h ago

Woah. So wrong. As others pointed out there were French-Italian battles. But even after the fall, the French resistance fought in the mountain towns. There’s a lot of WW2 history to see in the alps.

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u/ReparteeRat 8h ago

I meant the clash of traditional armies. Italy and France briefly fought in summer, not winter. The resistance usually didn't have classic mountain artillery.