Spanish Civil War Observatory (Guadarrama)

Live in a secondary front during the Spanish Civil War was anything but quiet. Shooting and assaults were common business for the soldiers in any frontline. This position in Cuesta de la Casa (northern Madrid mountains) was no exception. At the bottom of the trench we found all the scrap produced by the shooters located in the upper pillbox, who threw it down. More than 30 clips and shells of spanish and german mauser, as well as some anecdotical 303British LeeEnfield and even greek shell, surely captured to the republicans. The mayority of the spanish ammo was from 1910/20's and little was found of german mauser. The material assemble indicates two main issues: 1- The mayority of the ammo was old, from spanish industries and include Lee-Enfield and greek mauser; german mausers were reserved to more elite units in critical areas and offensives. 2- The amount of shells and clips is indicative that a lot firing was taking place since 1938 (when the position was built) and that this was no quite front at all. Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab