The Gas Place

France / Lorraine / Mangiennes /

military, First World War 1914-1918, artillery

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Over 200,000 unexploded chemical shells packed with arsenic leftover from WWI were burned here in 1928 by the French Ministry of War, leaving the surrounding soil heavily contaminated with arsenic.

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Coordinates: 49°17'49"N 5°32'7"E

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Verdun Battlegound 13 km
Le Mort Homme 22 km
Verdun 23 km
Oise-Aisne American Cemetery 145 km
Belleau Wood American Aisne-Marne Cemetery 165 km
Site of the Battle of Belleau Wood 167 km
Manchester Hill - Manchester Redoubt 178 km
Site de la bataille de Fromelles, 1916 244 km
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Bois de Forges 20 km
Lhoist plant: Dugny 26 km
Mouilly 27 km
Ranzières 31 km
Ambly-sur-Meuse 32 km
Meuse Argonne American WW1 Cemetery 32 km
Bantheville 33 km
Neuvilly-en-Argonne 38 km
Forest of Argonne 43 km

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