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Ten thousand Germany soldiers were killed on June 7, 1917, during a British blast. The explosion took place after 19 mines were detonated inside tunnels beneath the German soldiers stationed at La Boisselle in Messines, France. It was apparently so loud that people in Dublin and London could hear it. Additionally, the mushrooms cloud was seen. 4000 feet in the air and resulted in a 200 feet feet deep by 450 feet deep by 450 feet wide crater The Mines in the Battle of Messines comprised a series of underground explosive charges which were fired during the First World War at the start of the Battle of Messines (7–14 June 1917) by the British Second Army (General Sir Herbert Plumer) near the village of Mesen (Messines in French, historically also used in English and German) in Belgian West Flanders. The mines, secretly planted and maintained by British tunnelling units beneath the forward position of the German 4th Army (General Friedrich Bertram Sixt von Armin), killed approximately 10,0...