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Drone missions uncover hidden features of the Battle of the Bulge

Laser-based system penetrates the deep forest covering the site of a key battle in the Second World War.
A shallow dugout in a forest, with a light covering of snow.

A dugout used during the Battle of the Bulge was identified by a technique that peers through the foliage obscuring the battleground. Credit: B. Stichelbaut et al./Antiquity

Using laser technology that ‘sees’ through dense vegetation, researchers have uncovered hundreds of archaeological traces of one of the fiercest battles in the Second World War1.

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Nature 620, 701 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02572-y

References

  1. Stichelbaut, B., Coucke, D., Passmore, D. G., Van de Winkel, J. & De Mulder, G. Antiquity 97, 945–963 (2023).

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