The war to end all wars.Post interesting photos, info-graphics, tib-bits, etc. All sides. All theaters.
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>>4490857every man in this picture was killed five minutes after this photo was taken.somme, first day
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French and British officers chilling
>>4490806Can some kind anon translate the text?Pic related is a British batallion in Egypt
Russian trench
Plane going over French cavalry
>>4490985This is an interesting one.Russian troops situated in France.
>>4490965it says "these people dead"
>>4490992French troops scouting in the woods
>>4491010Frenchmen guarding a chateau
>>4490992They gave them French uniforms? Did they have to leave their Russian uniforms behind or is there another reason behind that? Pic related is a German Stormtrooper
>>4490965>Taken Russian forest position/trench - the "Dead Men Forest" - at Kiseline. The picture shows the aftermath of seventeen useless Russian mass assaults against Austro-German positions/trenches.
>>4491038No clue honestly, probably depended where they were stationed.This is a pic of Russian troops in Russian uniforms but with French gasmasks in Champagne.
opening days of the war - the french dragoons uniformed in their napoleonic garb.
>>4491069Russian cossacksThey were known to be demonized by the Germans and actually used them as a propaganda tool to convince the German citizens in Eastern Prussia to evacuate the area unless they wanted to experience the cruelest forms of rape and pillaging.
thiepval bombardment at night
>>4491065>SeventeenHoly fuck, thanks man. This one shows the aftermath of a battle with a British soldier standing amidst what was left.
>>4491049Fuck, wrong pic. That's WWII.
>>4491097That's edited
>>4491096thiepval bombardment from above
imagine being one of the poor german soldiers huddling in these concrete pillboxes for weeks on end as the shells came down and destroyed everything. the noise!
a rare ottoman pic showing the elevated defensive line on gallopoli
>>4491104How do you know? I got it from here. Here are some Jewish German soldiers.
>>4490798Interesting.
>>4491219>>4491216Anon this is a WW1 thread not WW2.Peasants give French soldiers drinks
I often lurk these threads and I just wanted to say i absolutely love these pictures.
pic of one of the very few objectives taken by british (irish) forces on the first day of the somme
a general addresses his men before the big push
hill 60
Probably in the east
American soldiers chatting and making friends with a French family in their garden
combat action photohill 346, verdunhell on earth
This is the only decent thread that has came to this board in 1 month
>>4491367agreed
>>4491367I guessFrench officers dining
>>4491385Black American units marching northwest of Verdun
>>4491410Cyclists of the French army
>>4491410Is that Will Smith in the front?
>>4491433Another angle of the squad getting ready to fuck shit up.
us joins the fight en masse
>>4491455American army enters Germany, 1918.
>>4491518Wall Street upon hearing the news of Germany's surrender
>>4491568How the news of peace was received at a German prison camp. For the first time in many months, everybody in the prison camp wore a happy smile
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>>4491578that's a lot of relieved prisoners
>>4491367"Casseta medica, eco!"
>>4491598Indeed
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>>4491648British troops buying something from French market
>>4491677African-American entertaining a group of soldiers
>>4491699British cavalry passing through a wrecked village.
>>4491707British troops enter Lille, France, 1918.That's all I got.
not a gif
poor brit bastards charging on gallipoli if anyone wants to hate churchill - here's where you start
no gloves were issued
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first use of brit chemical weapons
Could someone, say in 1916, feasibly walk from the Atlantic Ocean to Switzerland and stay in a trench the whole time?
>>4492684You mean from the channel? I think at different points in the war yes but not all at once.
>>4492684just about - but you would also have to transverse the natural features (rivers, canals, hills, mountains, coal patches, etc) that both sides used to their own advantage and through which no trench could be dug.I originally became interested in WWI when i had the thought of, "why the hell didn't they just go around the strong points in the west" and learned that the entire line was pretty much a strong point.
ready to attack
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sir adrian carton dewiart - look him up for a good read. badass
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>>4491789There are plenty other reasons to hate Churchill but he had next to nothing to do with the way the landings at Gallipoli were botched completely, blame Hamilton for that
>>4493152Thanks m8
>>4493213hamilton deserves a huge heaping of blame (to put it nicely). but, i would argue, it was churchill's rash and short-sighted campaign aims that put (and kept!) the troops on the peninsula with no real strategic goal other than to capture the dardanelles. how?, who knew. at what cost?, they'd find out. and why land them at the foot of the jetty?the entire campaign was a huge disaster in the making. and then it became a disaster. churchill didn't spend 8 self-flagellating months in the wet french trenches for no reason.
>>4491038>Pic related is a German Stormtrooper>using a serrated bladethat nigga better win or die trying, because the french are going to make him beg for death
Compare to the tanks of today,wow
>>4494429Honestly thats a really nifty ford model. I wonder how many trtoops it could carry or if you could soup it up tobe armoured and with an mg...
>>4490807Look's like he's holding Sargon's head
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>>4494504The neet Carl vs Le Chad Macron
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>>4494561Anyone up for some french experimental uniforms that i really like?
>>4494568Ima start posting them in three more posts if noone complains...
>>4494611oh fuck sorry i thought that was ww1
>>4494617ww1 submarine patrols
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>>4494655I believe these are french indians? Or africans?
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>>4494675I've decided against the experimental uniforms.These men wouldn't have appreciated it, that we their sons waste time with something so stupid as flashy uniforms
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>>4491249Same. Just giving a bump as I browse the rest of these pics. WW1 really does seem like the most romantic War, even though WW2 usually gets this praise.
>>4494700This and That was from the fighting within the great verdun fortress.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Pd527GN48
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>>4490824War is kind of beautiful before shit hits the fan.
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>>4494749>>4494755fuck me im sorry i reached the image limit. Twas fun while it lasted
>>4491445Of course there is no way to be sure, but it looks like the solider on the left is saying something a long the lines of "Je". Really cool to speculate what these 2 people from 2 different parts of the world were talking about in tg midst of something like this. Especially if there was a language barrier.
>>4494757it was! great stuff anons!!
>>4491097That looks like a pic of a museum display
>>4490806Its weird but every time I see a post battle picture like this I Just think, all those bodies had families, Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, wives, kids, hopes, dreams, hobbies, memories of their past and plans for their future. And in a split second that's all gone, reduced to nothing more than one of many unrecognizable corpses that litter the ground.
>>4496058War is hell anon.
>>4496058That's not weird, anon.
>>4491097ahahaha wtf is this
Fuck DICE, BF1 would be better if it were moddable (and therefore one could make a mod that replicated Red Orchestra-style mechanics, but kept the terrain destruction)
>>4494706WW2 is easier to meme because it's closer in our memory, more significant Burger involvement, the Holocaust, etc.Personally I find The Great War to be far more compelling and tragic. It was more than just this world changing conflict, it was the death of the old world and the birth of the modern in many ways.
