[CuriousGeorge420]

In the last picture from verdun you can see a skull with 3 bullet holes in it. Pretty amazing shot.

[vagabond]

Thanks for posting these

[DeathHand]

Originally Posted by vagabond ↗

Thanks for posting these

Thanks :)

Lots more to come.

[GrumbleGob]

Great pics. Thank you.

Some of the buried bodies could also be the result of the huge mines that used to be placed under trench systems. Some of the explosions from these were amongst the largest ever and many of the craters are still there now.

[Tslice]

Back when "War" meant actually having a War. Not some clusterfuck oil race and one sided missile attack against folks still riding camels.

[Shakey]

I was just a baby then.

[xm15e2s]

Fuck that must have been brutal.

Back then people had REALLY bad PTSD. You're waxing people from a few feet away, An hundreds of them. Now you do a fucking drone strike from a metal container in Arizona and are home for dinner that night with your wife and kids.

[wickedlara]

This was a war of mechanized killing: Gas, tanks, planes, machine guns were introduced in this war. It was the last solider to solider war. Now it is the goal to kill a bunch of civilians and a few soldiers here and there. That approach was reborn in WWII

[King Herald]

Originally Posted by DeathHand ↗

I wish

As for shell shock. I can so see that shit happening but the British didn't understand it at the time. Most of those poor guys were tied to a post and shot dead by a firing squad from their own battalion.

They couldn't move or fight and were considered cowards, especially if they tried to run.

There are a couple of videos on here, in the medical thread, of shell shock victims. It is not pretty. People tend to think of guys with weird attitudes or crazy stares, not a totally debilitating paralysis of the nervous system.

[King Herald]

Originally Posted by xm15e2s ↗

Fuck that must have been brutal.

Back then people had REALLY bad PTSD. You're waxing people from a few feet away, An hundreds of them. Now you do a fucking drone strike from a metal container in Arizona and are home for dinner that night with your wife and kids.

And can you imagine fighting and hiding and struggling and living back and forth, over and across the mashed, rotting, stinking remains of body parts and guts of soldiers that died weeks before......a soup of death and misery.

I've heard tell that the smell of death never left the noses of some of the survivors, that even decades later it was still ingrained in their psyche, they smelt it everywhere.