Warning: Some of the WWI images included below may be disturbing to some viewers.
There comes a time in everybody’s life when obstacles seem too daunting to face. In moments like these, we sometimes wish these obstacles would just disappear. This is exactly what happened in the June 7th Battle of Messines (Belgium), when the German line of defensive trenches simply disappeared from the view of allied observers. The German line did not disappear in a puff of magic—in reality, the German trenches disappeared in a eruption of fire and soil, followed by a rain of blood, gore and all sorts of mysterious debris.
