#shell casings

The fighting there lasted less than a month ...The invasion of the Russian army pollutes the soil of Ukraine with military waste and unexploded ordnance

This striking photo shows the shell casings for one day's worth of bombardment by the U.K., at a position somewhere in France, 1916.  I reckon that there are 3,000 105mm shell casings in this photo, which for one day's work is a lot.  Throughout the course of the war it has been estimated that there were about 1.75 billion artillery shells fired, which makes this pile about .0000001% of the total; another way of looking at this number is that it would take about 580,000 of these piles to equal the 1.75 billion figure.

Two trench art vases, depicting American soldiers, made from spent artillery shells

This striking photo shows the shell casings for one day's worth of bombardment by the U.K., at a position somewhere in France, 1916.  I reckon that there are 3,000 105mm shell casings in this photo, which for one day's work is a lot.  Throughout the course of the war it has been estimated that there were about 1.75 billion artillery shells fired, which makes this pile about .0000001% of the total; another way of looking at this number is that it would take about 580,000 of these piles to equal the 1.75 billion figure.  It is a vast number, and vast numbers are hard to understand in a daily language.

I wanted to say that this person is going to get assassinated.

“Scrappers Give Shell Cases for Scrap,” Windsor Star. November 14, 1942. Page 3. --- TWO young Canadian scrappers are shown above, Wireless Telegrapher Gerard Desramaux, and his brother AC. Roger Desramaux, as they turned in souvenirs from the last war in today's salvage drive. Their father, Mr. Fernand H. Desramaux, 824 Pillette road, found the two shell cases in his backyard, at Ypres, in Belgium, after the British pushed the Germans back in that sector in the last war. The British then fired the shells into the German lines and Gerard and Roger made sure, today, that the shell casings, prized as souvenirs since the last war, will head for some axis target, too.

Dimanche dernier, en milieu de matinée, plusieurs personnes encagoulées avaient déboulé dans le quartier en tirant en l'air, entraînant l'intervention des policiers du Raid. Le commando, qui s'était vraisemblablement livré à une opération d'intimidation à proximité du plan stup - le deuxième en à peine plus d'un mois - avait toutefois réussi a prendre la fuite, laissant derrière lui de nombreux étuis de calibre 9mm.