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re: 98 Years Ago Today: Battle Of Belleau Wood Begins
Posted on 6/1/16 at 1:15 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 6/1/16 at 1:15 pm to Darth_Vader
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On 31 May, the 3rd Division held the German advance at Château-Thierry and the German advance turned right towards Vaux and Belleau Wood.
My great-granduncle was 3rd Division/38th Infantry... Rock of the Marne. He was KIA about 2 months after the quoted action above in August 1918.
This post was edited on 6/1/16 at 1:17 pm
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 1:19 pm to Jim Rockford
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Not to minimize the horror at all, but they learned early to rotate units in and out of the front lines, so that they never spent very long under fire at any one time. IIRC the goal was no more than 48 hours at any one stretch, but I could be wrong about that. And by the end of the war the forward trenches were only manned by observation posts and reinforced only in the event of imminent attack.
Read the book 'Storm of Steel' by Ernst Junger.
It was insanity.
Them baws were getting shelled in the front lines, rear lines, medical stations, villages, swamps... it was nonstop. Which explains the vast harvest of iron and steel that keeps manifesting year in an year out on those fields and why many areas have been deemed not safe for living and are blocked off from humans , lest you step on unexploded ordinance
Posted on 6/1/16 at 1:30 pm to Darth_Vader
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The "Christmas Truce" happened in 1914. And it happened on Christmas day, not in June. I think you're confused.
Apparently it was Garth who is confused then.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 1:32 pm to biglego
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Apparently it was Garth who is confused then.
You think Garth Brooks told you this?
Have you recently stopped taking your medication or something?
Posted on 6/1/16 at 2:15 pm to Darth_Vader
The area around Belleau Wood was fought in and around for damn near the duration of the war. The truce did happen in 1914 there on Christmas. This is a different event in the same front.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 2:26 pm to Drank
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The area around Belleau Wood was fought in and around for damn near the duration of the war. The truce did happen in 1914 there on Christmas. This is a different event in the same front.
You must be new to the OT.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 3:11 pm to Jim Rockford
In times of little action, yes, they did have rotation schedules for putting units in and pulling them back out of the front lines, although these varied by nation. However, when an attack was on, rotation could be difficult or impossible to accomplish. Consider that preparatory artillery barrages could last a week or more in the First World War. How are you going to get men into or out of the front lines when they are under a literal rain of shell?
The front lines during the battles of Verdun, the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele have to rate as some of the most unimaginably horrible conditions ever endured by any member of humanity.
The front lines during the battles of Verdun, the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele have to rate as some of the most unimaginably horrible conditions ever endured by any member of humanity.
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