Slovenia, Mengore hill. WWI, That fortified hill was part of the Austro-Hungarian bridge head of Tolmin. The Italian troops kept it under siege for a long time, but they never succeded in breaking through the front line. The picture shows Austro-Hungarian post in armoured cave were the Austrians placed a sixty-centimetre-diameter spotlight.

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Keywords: armoured, austrian, battlefields, cave, front, great, hill, isonzo, italian, line, mengore, slovenia, soca, spotlight, tolmin, valley, war, ww1, wwi, ùworld