A German Blockhaus that served as a field hospital in the St. Mihiel sector. 
Inscription left by a recent traveler. 
Walking in the woods near St. Mihiel. 
Christophe took us into the woods to explore well-preserved German positions in the former support and reserve lines of the St. Mihiel Salient. 
Gunner’s position. During the war there would have been a wooden plank above the machine gun storage area on which the gunner would have stood. A loader would have stood beside him. 
The machine gun storage area. 
Going inside the position. 
Christophe in the observer’s post. 
Observer slit, now filled in after a century.
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Battles of the First World War Podcast
The Battles of the First World War Podcast is a podcast goes in-depth into the battles of the Great War of 1914-1918.