WWI Thread? WWI Thread. I personally think that's the look

No, that's the look when you have a concussion, are deaf, and haven't slept in 9 days.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=k4Pd527GN48

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>>34295577

maybe someone made a really funny joke about the krauts

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>>34295679

gonna dump some more ww1 color pics

>>34295602
Holy shit. 10/10 would watch again

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OP here. Dump to bump

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>>34295693

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>>34295712

Can we end the dispute once and for all - how long did allied soldiers have to stay on the front lines on the western front? I searched, from what I found, it wasn't very long, but sourcess vary.

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>>34295759

>>34295742
Whatever it was, it was the same as everyone else: too long.

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Royal navy anchored on the Forth

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>>34295772

>>34295742
Fall 1914 - Spring 1918
Right?

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US soldiers next to a cave entrance.

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One of the carvings in the cave.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3649043/Stunning-network-intricately-carved-WWI-tunnels-rediscovered-amateur-explorer-revealed-250-designs-etched-quarry-walls-troops.html

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The German cruiser Emden aground in the Cocos Islands

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Sorry, this is the cave entrance.

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OP here, thanks for making the thread popular. I needed the self esteem.

>>34295577

I think that's the look you get when you're smiling for the camera after getting a nice ticket home from any war ever and the only "menacing" thing about it is how it's not in colour.

I'm so sick of this "WW1 WAS ABSOLUTE HELL ARGH" memes. Stop watching that black and white video with the cow mooing over it and actually learn about the war.

>>34295879
It was tho

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WW1 threads are always popular.

>>34295910

For the average soldier not really. I mean, it's as hellish as any other war, but no more so. The whole, "they were in the trenches for months getting bombed every single day and everyone had lice and rats on them 24/7 and you're lucky to even sleep with the constant artillery! And the trenches were nothing but mud and boards!"

>>34295932
You're demonstrably wrong but that's fine because this is the internet and you can be as stupid as you want

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>>34295879
It was hell because of the conditions the soldiers lived in, and the destruction that was caused. To lives and the landscape.

I'm pretty sure that pic related didn't have to much more than brown even if it was in color.

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>>34295945
So tell us. What was your average day at the front like?

>>34295945

You have given such great evidence to contradict me.

>>34295947

You mean the conditions they lived in for a week at a time that weren't even that bad? Maybe on the very first trench but certainly not in a back trench or a communications trench. Do you mean the destruction that doesn't even rival the destruction of WW2?

Also yeah, that image probably doesn't have too much colour because it was most likely after an offensive and they had yet to clear the wrecks.

You guys need to read Baudrillard and see how images and other simulacra distort our reality.

>>34295972
I don't have to live trench for two weeks and die to an unseen enemy to know it sucks more than maneuver warfare.

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>>34295932
Ok Mr. Expert what's the worst war to be in in your opinion?
Heh look at that. Someone asked for it.

>>34296013

I wouldn't want to be in any war. It's not like they're amazing things.

>>34296017
Cuck

>>34295974
Yes the troops were rotated. But why? If it wasn't so bad?

The French mutinied for christs sake. I'm sure it was because that mornings delivery of fresh croissants rolls were held up.

>>34296017
with non answers like that you should be a politician

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What does /k/ think of this channel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P92guhd7d-8

Where we fought several times over the same ground bodies became incorporated in the material of the trenches themselves.’ He remembered in one place accidentally digging through corpses of Frenchmen killed and buried in 1915.

‘They were putrid, with the consistency of Camembert cheese. I once fell and put my hand right through the belly of a man. It was days before I got the smell out of my nails.’


Sounds like a real picnic.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2715098/The-haunting-account-trenches-ll-read-brilliant-anthology-Birdsong-author-Sebastian-Faulks.html

>>34296026

Because war sucks and they would have mutinied in any other war when they lived in substandard conditions.

>>34296028

I'm not going to pick a worst war because it's not like there's a best war. Plus, it really depends on who you are and what you do.

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>>34295729

>>34296169
No such thing as a good war. But if I had to choose, trench warfare would be my last choice. Followed closely by jungle warfare.

>>34296169
Godamn are you a woman? Just answer the fucking question

If you haven't already go and download the entire "Blueprint for Armageddon" podcast. It's free and well worth the listen.

http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-blueprint-for-armageddon-i/

kill all the alphas and leave only the weak to breed with the women aka beta chimp tactics?

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Mankind's deepest descent into hell.

>>34295602
Why does everyone post this gay-ass video in every thread about WW1? It's stock footage with a shitty filter, and even shittier "spoopy," music.

>>34295879
>>34295932
>>34295974
>But WWII was worse
Oi, you again? Stop posting in these WWI threads. The point of these threads are to post WWI stuff, not to have a dick measuring contest about which war was the worst.

>>34297872
This picture always breaks my heart. The man on the left is the father of the man on the right, wearing his Prussian outfit from the Franco Prussian war, his son, in current at time of picture German Empire uniform.
It's a loving picture of a father and a son in the same line of work. But something about it is just really sad to me.
Also ww1 threads always kick ass.

I believe I have every osprey book on the first world war, all in PDF. Any requests lads?

>>34298223
Yes. All of them.

>>34295693
horizon blue best blue

>>34295742
Most of what I've read about rotations puts it somewhere in the 1-3 week range of time at the front. However, that would change depending on what the front demanded, what the current strategy is, whether you could even get to the rear, etc., etc.

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>>34296205
As cool as they are, those aren't WW1 ships. Oregon was in the fleet reserve throughout and Massachusetts served as a training ship.

>>34296768
just finished listening to this last week, would recommend

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Behold, the Linke Hoffman R.1. Ye olde stealth plane

>>34295656
>That war doggo

>>34295760
My first reaction was to this was "holy shit they crucified a guy, that's fucked"

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Guys, I'm looking for particularly British specimens

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>>34298760
okay
>tfw "the tanks that broke the ranks out in picardie starts playing"

>>34295577
Have a (you) OK, I've been playing a lot of BF1 this week.

>>34298840
What?

>>34295656
Fuck yeah, son. If you can kill Germans in a skirt, you can do any damned thing.

>>34295974
You need to go apologize to your parents for wasting their money. The end result of a higher education should be to make you a productive member of society, not an ignorant, navel gazing autist with no conception of life beyond his own small, sheltered little existence. The real world is going to rape you until you learn to love the pain and cede over whatever is left of your humanity. It will be hilarious.

>>34298526
Imagine how the Jews felt.

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>>34295879
>>34295577
It's less thousand yard stare and more "light reflected of my eyes in a weird way", because you know, shell shock doesn't actually give you demonic glowing eyes

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Here's a photo of my great great grandfather and his friends in 1917, he's the one in the middle.

>>34299608
Fuck

>>34299460

Nice one. Really made me think.

>>34299513

If war is heck then soldiers must be the d@3m0n$ XD amirite

>>34298634
>>34296866
go back to pol you turbo autists

>>34299881
>me? think?

Don't lie on the internet, faggot.

>>34295602
This video was fucking terrible and you should feel bad for posting it unironically thinking it's good

>>34295814
>posting bullshit cartoons in a real historical thread

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>>34300792
Are drawings ok

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Here's a picture of my great grandfather who fought in the italian army during ww1

>>34299460
What the fuck are you and those other idiots talking about? Or are you the same person?

Soldiers in the trenches were rotated out quite regularly. That's a fact. Did conditions suck? Yes, but anyone who has ever been in the military has slept outside for days and weeks at a time, been in the rain and mud and all that.

>>34301234
not white

>>34301582
This can't be real.

>>34301582
If Canada the ultimate cuck country? Fucking embarrassing.

>>34301650
That's prime minister Trudeau for you.

This is the same guy who called Fidel Castro a "remarkable leader".

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>>34301945

>>34299460
Stop projecting so much.

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>>34296347
According to those who experienced both, the Somme was preferable to East Africa.

>>34296102
Subscriber here.

>>34295742
If they were in a quiet sector, standard rotation time between front-reserve-rear was 18 days, for the Brits at least. If they were in a sector with heavy fighting it was a "whenever we can" situation. I've read accounts of some Brits staying in the front lines for three months, but I'm sure cases like that were rare.

>>34302277
At the time of surrender, the German Askaris had stolen so much ammunition and supplies from the enemy, they couldn't ship it all with them when they moved.They were fully prepared to continue fighting.

Another fun fact, they received a pension from the Weimar republic until the Nazis seized control and the payments stopped. In the 1960s, West Germany decided to restore pension payments to the surviving Askaris. Unfortunately, not many had retained documentation of their military service. Many brought in medals or scraps of uniform to validate their claims. The German civil servant sent to distribute the payments got creative. He would have the pensioners come in one at a time. He handed the claimant a broom and ordered them, in German, to perform the manual of arms.

>>34302496
It truly was an interesting theater of the war, especially when you consider that nearly all the logistics was done by human porters.

Remember: when the going gets tough, counter invade your enemy and steal all their shit.

>>34301582
blatantly fake

>>34297814
I'm pretty sure it's one same fag.

>>34295879
hello there, sir Haig

>>34303565

His men actually liked and supported him. The whole "lions led by donkeys" bullshit is a myth.

>>34295602
https://youtu.be/SS1dO0JC2EE

>>34299881
No, you are the demons.

>>34295728
the red baron

>>34295932
The war where modern weaponry meets old military doctrine. Something about getting mowed down by machine guns on horseback sounds pretty sucky

>>34307973
>old military doctrine

Not really.

Did you know that at the beginning of that war there were people actually putting on the armors their great grandfathers had in Napoleon era?
Cavalry with sabers was still a thing.
Shit was weird back then

>>34296169
Pig War was best war, with Emu war being a close second