• Ellia Plissken
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    2 months ago

    do you seriously think they didn’t have ventilation and drainage?

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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      2 months ago

      tbf, competence was not in high supply during the Great War. In places they dug trenches below the fucking water table.

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        2 months ago

        right but when they were building complex underground structures like this, they called in experienced miners. every country already had lots of experience digging underground. Britain used coal miners

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Notice that I said “adequate” ventilation, which I seriously doubt they had. We know they didn’t have adequate drainage because trench foot was a serious problem during both of the world wars.