![]() Unscathed to face the oncoming attackers. The Germans simply hid in their deep and reinforced dugouts until the barrage ended, emerging largely The Somme offensive opened with a massive artillery bombardment, which lasted five days and did little to knock out enemy troops and artillery guns. It was hoped the assault on a 25 km section of theįront would not only break the stalemate, but relieve pressure on beleaguered French forces defending against the long-running German assault further south, at Verdun. ![]() 1 July 1916Īfter two years of stalemate in the vast trench works held by the Allied and German armies on the Western Front, the British launched a massive offensive in the Somme River valley in northern France. Canadian soldiers returning from the Battle of the Somme in France, November 1916. ![]()
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