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By June 23rd, they got within 2.5 miles from Verdun itself – but this attack faltered as the German army itself had given all that it had and it could give no more. On June 24th, the bombardment on the Somme could be heard at Verdun an d with days, the battle at the Somme was to dominate military planners on the Western Front. ................
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