It was also the longest battle, lasting 300 days and leaving an estimated 800,000 soldiers dead, wounded or missing ... of the Kamina wireless station. WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme ...
On the first day, the German Army suffered around 6,000 casualties - mostly at the hands of the French on the southern part of the Somme. The French, for their part, managed to take all their ...