Salvage Teams Still Collect Unexploded Shells At Verdun 100 Years Since WWI

VERDUN, FRANCE - AUGUST 26: Farmer Francois Monjin walks across a field where he regularly still finds unexploded artillery shells from World War I at Brabant-sur-Meuse on August 26, 2014 near Verdun, France. A handful of men kown in French as "les demineurs" have the task of collecting munitions, mostly from World War I, still turning up throughout northern France, but especially between Verdun and the German border 100km away. Fighting around Verdun was particularly intense and it is estimated that millions of unexploded French and German shells are still strewn across the region. During the 10-month Battle of Verdun in 1916 artillery barrages in some areas were so intense that thousands of artillery shells fell on average per each square meter. Weber and his team of demineurs expect they and their successors will be collecting shells still for centuries to come. Europe has been commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of the war in 1914. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)