[gunguy1911]

Absolutely amazing post. These are great finds!

[DCM90]

Full power cartridges on bolt action rifles surely got the job done with one shot.
Seems death on WWI (when KIA and not from diseases) like in Verdun was much "cleaner" regarding corpse conditions instead of wars like Vietnam or modern warfare. Intermediate rounds are more messy.

[DCM90]

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.

WW1 battles where at 500-700 meters average. Soldiers went marching and fights where usually at distance. No airborne or fast deployment into an urban area. This was an open field, a sniper/marksman fest.

[b0g]

Battle of Passchendaele / Passendale
=
26 Sept 1917. First attack on Passendale started at 05:30.
3th Battle of Yper / Ypres / Ieper

I'll add some explanations later on...

The first 5 days of the attempt on Passendale, it rained more than 50 l / m². "You could not distinguish clay from water"

[wickedlara]

Can there be any argument that people are not born as killers? We are just killer apes. It is in our DNA. Mass or orgy killing is as old as humankind. As we have advanced culturally and scientifically, we have become better at mass killing.

WWI was the first mechanized war, and in WWII we killed more civilians and unleashed nuclear mass killing. We are made in the image and likeness of our god, or we have made our god in our image and likeness.

Lucifer is our better angel. He never kills.

[BlogZilla]

War is just disgusting and sick. The best thing they could do is just start fucking and sucking one another, instead of being Rothschild fall guys. I'm serious. OR at best, just lay down their weapons. or pretend to shoot at the enemy, but don't. If enemies did that and comrades alike, they couldn't do diddly squat and perpetrate their sick military industrial war-profiteering psychopathy around the world

[b0g]

Apart from God, who I don't see here but that's my view, you have to remind: this is 1914-1917. Going to school after 12-14 years old was a big ace. Your other class mates would be working in the field. Hardly any engine around... imagine that.
So in such a hierarchical and poor society, being a military leader was often a case of heritage. No social mobility.
And yes, there have been - counted and archived - executions of deserters. Most of em being shell shocked / ptsd. Only the Aussie officers had a bit common sense: they and their politicians decided that volunteers who signed up freely to fight in a contrapod war, not even their war, could not being sentenced to death.

I hear history repeating again,
and again, don't you?

[commondenom]

what's sad to see is all the footage of WW1 soldiers leaving home on the trains....all jolly and happy and light hearted, going off to fight for good old king george...straight to hell


this 4 hour mini series about the great war will bring you to tears http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3638584/?ref_=tt_rec_tt

[RickSanchez]

There's one thing you need to know about war. War, war never changes.

[b0g]

so pics of victims of Yperite / mustard gas
a shot at the hell fire corner, where all traffic had to pass through but was under German fire all the time. Note the camouflage screens.