Passchendaele thread

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Passchendaele

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Colorized photo dump from the battle of Passchendaele impound

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>>34716458

the fucking mud man

I can't even imagine the mud.

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>>34716345
Worse than Hiroshima

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>>34716537

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx3UPfzGeN4

This seems obligatory

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kUox_hQAih8

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>>34716748

>"A party of 'A' Company men passing up to the front line found ... a man bogged to above the knees," remembered Major C. A. Bill of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. "The united efforts of four of them, with rifles beneath his armpits, made not the slightest impression, and to dig, even if shovels had been available, would be impossible, for there was no foothold. Duty compelled them to move on up to the line, and when two days later they passed down that way the wretched fellow was still there; but only his head was now visible and he was raving mad."

>>34716831
Jesus!

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>>34716790

>>34716831
I heard this listening to dan carlin's. People fucking drowned in that mud man.

>Every few steps someone would slide and stumble and, weighed down by rifle and equipment, rapidly sink into the squelching mess. Those nearest grabbed his arms, struggled against being themselves engulfed and, if humanly possible, dragged him out. When helpers floundered in as well and doubled the task, it became hopeless. All the straining efforts failed and the swamp swallowed its screaming victims, and we had to be ordered to plod on dejectedly and fight this relentless enemy as stubbornly as we did those we could see. It happened that one of those leading us was Lieutenant Chamberlain, and so distraught did he become at the spectacle of men drowning in mud, and the desperate attempts to rescue them that suddenly he began hysterically belabouring the shoulders of a sinking man with his swagger stick. We were horror-struck to see this most compassionate officer so unstrung as to resort to brutality, and our loud protests forced him to desist. The man was rescued, but some could not be and they sank shrieking with fear and agony. To be ordered to go ahead and leave a comrade to such a fate was the hardest experience one could be asked to endure, but the objective had to be reached, as we plunged on, bitter anger against the evil forces prevailing piled on to our exasperation. This was as near to Hell as I ever want to be. - Private Norman Cliff, 1st Grenadier Guards

These photographs are almost alien in quality.

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I'm fascinated by the aesthetics of WWI, horrible as they are. Eldritch, shell-blasted landscapes, rolling clouds of green gas, huge clanking machines, and creepy gas masks.
Passchendaele was particularly spooky, with extra-blasted landscapes, acres of sucking mud, and every shell hole filled with stinking, poisoned water.

> I died in Hell. They called it Passchendaele.

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>...Siegfried Sasson

WHAT'S THE PRICE OF A MILE?

>>34716693
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh99b0a3hF0

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>>34716896

Christ

>>34717090
100,000 men per mile, according to Haige

Give me any other war throughout history. Let me be a caveman or an ape getting my skull bashed in with a rock.
I would pick any single battle I can think of over ever having to serve in the first World War.

>>34716790

it's interesting contrasting the visible relief of the German soldiers with the tension and worry of the Canadians. It's obvious who has to go back to the line and who is going to get send to the rear.

>>34717168
Captured Brit tank?

>>34719250

Fuck. I didn't catch that.

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Bumping