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Map showing daily gains during Battle of the Somme

Map showing daily gains during Battle of the Somme

Each great attack on the Somme brought gains of only a mile or two, and these were at enormous human cost.

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Peter MacDonald
07 Oct 2010
this is an example of how television weather maps got their name and their terminology, as WW1 Trench Maps resembled the early tv weather maps and so gained terms like weather front etc.

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