WW1 Thread

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These mofos know how to dress for a war!

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Kgl. Bayerisches 11. Infanterie-Regiment von der Tann

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Belgian Carabiniers

>>33436997

>1918-WW1-Marine-Chau-Chat-Jam-Clearing-Specialist-2.jpg

Fixed that pic title

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My great grandmother had two spinster sisters. They were all born around 1900. She always said that the men the Great War didn't kill, the flu epidemic did. She found a Quaker.

>>33437833
>the flu epidemic did
it did have a great KD

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>you will never feel the euophoria of fighting a gentlemanly war with your dapper coat and finely trimmed moustache and pipe only to die half drenched in mud, blood and rat shit in a trench after a shell dismembers two of your arms and you land on a patch of barbed wire as you bleed out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPjvU0gF8OA

feels bad man. 'twas a bully affair!

>>33438854
what saddens me most is attack zepplins and putees will never make a comeback

>WWI

The art of starting a war for nothing...

I'm still reeling that the French thought bright red uniforms MIGHT be good idea, even for a day.

>>33439006
it was a political gesture, they considered getting rid of the red pants back in the 1880s, but it was stated they were necessary as "the red pantaloons are France." Got a lot of men killed but they thought it wouldn't be a terribly important change at the time.

>>33438942
I know right? puttees are fucking godly, I own a pair myself. Godly comfy

>>33438972
Terribly uneducated statement, the war had been brewing and was bound to happen. Each country had gripes with each other, the trigger just happened to come from something apparently insignificant, just like a match strike in an oil field.

Also, have you guys ever thought that the serb that shot Franz Ferdinand started WW1 which inadvertently started WW2 which then inadvertently started the cold war?
That one fucking Serb

>>33439095
well then Serbia has achieved one hell of a KD by proxy

>>33438854
or you can play battlefield one AS A BLACK GERMAN SNIPER

>>33439105
Yeah.
Or that that one guy became the most influential person in all of history by accident

>>33439157
or you can play Verdun and not have any blacks at all

>>33439095
If you consider the fact that Europe had been ripping itself apart over ethnic, territorial, and religious differences LONG before Ferdinand got plugged, it's no surprise. Princip just helped the pacing a little bit.

>>33439095
have you ever thought that if it wasn't for Napoleon rising to power in France, Germany wouldn't have had the political clout to unify and create a Federation to challenge Britain and France and be able to go to war causing ww1 and then 2 and then everything else?

Everything is cause and effect, my chum. Hell we could blame WW2 on Stalin coming to power instead of Trotsky, as the latter would have had a hell of a more aggressive policy and probably invaded the West.

The british and french might even have allied with the Germans against the Bolsheviks then, which would have been a helluva cooler timeline

>>33439184
Yeah i suppose that there really was an infinite number of things that could've happened to prevent it or at least drastically alter WW1, but it's cool to think that he accidently fucked the entire world

>>33439184
>The british and french might even have allied with the Germans against the Bolsheviks then, which would have been a helluva cooler timeline
If you look it up Japan near invaded Russia and wouldve set up a puppet state east of the Urals, imagine the coolness of Japs beheading captured bolshevieks, or if the Czechoslovak legion sprung the Tsar and his family, so many interesting what ifs, or if the Archangel expidition went into a full invasion even

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Great Great Grandfather's Uniform with some war loot