After the Battle of Verdun in World War I, French positions were destroyed by German artillery fire in 1947, and the bodies of French soldiers bombed to death in the trenches were strewn about.

　　After the Battle of Verdun in World War I, French positions were destroyed by German artillery fire in 1947, and the bodies of French soldiers bombed to death in their trenches were strewn about. German shelling at Verdun resulted in the deaths of all 38 French soldiers in their bunkers in the trenches of the Bois de Coles. The French positions were heavily shelled by the Germans, and the trenches collapsed.

　Soldiers caught in the crossfire were ground to a pulp, and their wounds were often fatal. The wounded who escaped the bombardment were often deeply wounded, crippled, and traumatized. The ground around Tiaumont Ouvrage in Verdun was ravaged by shelling. The effects of World War I shelling were such that organized positions were often completely destroyed, and when trenches, bunkers, and concrete positions were gone, fighters used the craters for rifle fire.

　The weapons of World War I grew phenomenally with the invasion of the war. Most of the industrial resources of the warring parties were devoted to the production of arms: from the summer of 1914, when World War I broke out and the first battles were fought, artillery pounded the enemy's entrenched positions in a matter of days. During the four years of World War I, all belligerents fired more than one billion artillery rounds on all fronts. World War I was an artillery war. The horrors of the Great War caused artillery to advance technologically at an astonishing rate in just a few short years, and it played an important role in the fighting. The artillery of World War I was the greatest killer of the war, leaving a bloody trail of physical pain and inhumanity.

　Large quantities of lead projectiles spit out by shrapnel, pieces of steel of all sizes from the ignition of exploding shells, heavy shell casings, bullet and chemical casings, and traces of explosives remained. The massive amount of explosive energy and weight of material bombarded at several kilometers per hour over a limited area was devastating to the terrain and to the combatants.

　Disintegrated and crumpled bodies, soldiers cut into pieces, torn limbs, disfigured faces, soldiers bleached white from lacerations and internal bleeding, organs destroyed by the shock waves of the explosions, bodies thrown into the air and dislocated, poisoned soldiers, blinded soldiers, soldiers suffocated, burned to death, etc. were strewn about. Eighty percent of the casualties of World War I were the result of artillery bombardment. Blasts hurled corpses into the air, disarticulated them, destroyed their internal organs, burned them in the heat of the flames, buried them in chaotic bunkers, and drove them mad with psychological shock.