Mines on the Italian front (World War I)

The mines on the Italian front during the First World War comprised a series of underground explosive charges of varying sizes, secretly planted between 1916 and 1918 by Austro-Hungarian and Italian tunneling units beneath their enemy's lines along the Italian front in the Dolomite section of the Alps. == Background == From 1915, the high peaks of the Dolomites range were an area of fierce mountain warfare.

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