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Beneath Hill 60
2010 · Film · 122 min
Directed by Jeremy Sims
The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers.
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> His battalion had 250% turnover during the war,
Ye gods. That reminds of Felix, a character from the book Armor, by John Steakley.
> It turned out the Japanese had stuffed the hill with explosives
Well, there you go. Nothing is new under the sun. Beneath Hill 60 [0] is a movie about the Allies doing the same thing to the Germans in WWI. The explosion was heard in London, about 250km away. It killed around 10,000 Germans [1], but according to the movie had very little effect on the eventual outcome.
I thought it must have been pretty unique event. Apparently not.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_Hill_60 [1] https://www.military-history.org/articles/world-war-i-hill-60.htm
The Battle of Messines was portrayed in an excellent Australian film called Beneath Hill 60 from 2010: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_Hill_60.