- Official - WWI Thread

[heydaralon]

One thing that I learned from the documentary was that World War 1 happened before World War 2. I did not know that. I also didnt know that Germany was an actual country. I thought it was invented by JK Rowling. Very interesting stuff...

[C-Mag]

A Century ago. The Battle of Belleau Wood

[C-Mag]

A Hundred Years later, Red Zone still too dangerous to enter
Symbolic of what the war was

The Zone Rouge (Red Zone) is a region near Verdun, France spanning some 460 square miles of mostly virgin forest – at least on the surface. It’s teeming with history, making it a major tourist attraction and a source of income for locals – yet no one lives there and nothing is built there.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world- ... -area.html

[heydaralon]

A Hundred Years later, Red Zone still too dangerous to enter
Symbolic of what the war was

The Zone Rouge (Red Zone) is a region near Verdun, France spanning some 460 square miles of mostly virgin forest – at least on the surface. It’s teeming with history, making it a major tourist attraction and a source of income for locals – yet no one lives there and nothing is built there.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world- ... -area.html

There is a great chapter in that book Aftermath by Donovan Webster about all the unexploded ordnance in France. It kills farmers every year. Dan talked about that book in his osfront series. You'd probably enjoy the chapter on WW1 Carlus. They have these explosive teams that pick up these shells and grenades and then they put them in a huge hole they dig in the english channel when the tide recedes. They wait until the water washes over it, and then detonate the explosives. It makes the water rise a quarter mile in the air. Shit, they still find incindiary weapons and shells from the Franco Prussian war. The older stuff like that is more of a concern that the WW2 stuff because it is less stable and a larger proportion of it didn't detonate. Those paris guns would shoot half ton shells into the Earth and if they didn't detonate they get buried 60 feet below the surface. Still some of those hidden beneath France too...

[C-Mag]

Two Days away from 100th Anniversary of the Armistice. I'm feeling completely underwhelmed by the attention it is getting...………… am I alone ?

[Fife]

Well, given that we are in the middle of the greatest constitutional crisis in the history of the republic . . .

[pineapplemike]

I was promised a military parade. This week would have been a fitting time to celebrate the US military with people dressed in WW1 attire and a bunch of old tanks cruising down Pennsylvania Ave

[Montegriffo]

Two Days away from 100th Anniversary of the Armistice. I'm feeling completely underwhelmed by the attention it is getting...………… am I alone ?

Loads of coverage here.
Have you seen the torches at the Tower of London?

[C-Mag]

Two Days away from 100th Anniversary of the Armistice. I'm feeling completely underwhelmed by the attention it is getting...………… am I alone ?

Loads of coverage here.
Have you seen the torches at the Tower of London?

I did see that. That's cool.
I'm sure it's still much more a part of Europe than what it is in the US.

[C-Mag]

I was promised a military parade. This week would have been a fitting time to celebrate the US military with people dressed in WW1 attire and a bunch of old tanks cruising down Pennsylvania Ave

I thought we should have had the parade just because it was the event that shaped the last hundred years and still shapes us. But that's probably a little deep for folks as Fife says, are focusing on our greatest Constitutional crisis.

Hell, I'd thought the Proglodytes would be all over this as a great victory by their hero and founder Woody Wilson. But just not much happening with it.