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re: Fascinating Information about WWI German War Zeppelins (WWI factoid thread)
Posted on 1/18/14 at 12:49 am to Granny Panties
Posted on 1/18/14 at 12:49 am to Granny Panties
Sub-Lieutenant Warneford, Royal Naval Air Service, attacking Zeppelin LZ-37, June 7, 1915, for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. He was killed a week later. Pilots who survived more than a month or two in combat were rare indeed.
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Posted on 1/18/14 at 1:02 am to Jim Rockford
World War I has always fascinated me more than World War II. The sheer hopelessness of it all just gravitates me toward it. Gruesome statistics. 20,000 British soldiers were killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme (July 1, 1916), with an additional 40,000 wounded, captured, or reported as missing. Carnage on an incredible scale.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 1:09 am to RollTide1987
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World War I has always fascinated me more than World War II. The sheer hopelessness of it all just gravitates me toward it. Gruesome statistics. 20,000 British soldiers were killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme (July 1, 1916), with an additional 40,000 wounded, captured, or reported as missing. Carnage on an incredible scale.
Bravo. No other event since perhaps the discovery of the New Word has fundamentally transformed this world more so than WWI. Even WWII pales in comparison from a transformative standpoint. Simply put, WWI made the world we know.
This post was edited on 1/18/14 at 1:10 am
Posted on 1/18/14 at 1:35 am to RollTide1987
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World War I has always fascinated me more than World War II. The sheer hopelessness of it all just gravitates me toward it.
It doesn't get much worse than a trench warfare stalemate, with gas attacks thrown in for good measure. I was just reading a first person account earlier. The guy said they would wake up with rats clamped into the cartilage of their noses. They would have to use their bayonets to cut them loose. Imagine going back to sleep after that.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 4:30 am to Sayre
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Sayre
What's the history behind your username?
Posted on 1/18/14 at 6:38 am to TFS4E
WWI is incredibly interesting. I didn't realize that soldiers from Montana and Canada scalped German soldiers like Native Americans scalped enemy combatants.
Tristan, my great grandfather, told me about WWI scalpings just before he disappeared into the forest to fight a bear.
Tristan, my great grandfather, told me about WWI scalpings just before he disappeared into the forest to fight a bear.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 6:54 am to Granny Panties
Posted on 1/18/14 at 7:15 am to Jim Rockford
I thought for sure zeppelins were made out of Led
Posted on 1/18/14 at 7:17 am to Jim Rockford
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Interviews with WWI veterans
First guy was a fraud. And it was obvious...
Posted on 1/18/14 at 7:47 am to lsu480
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Nazis were the coolest!!!
Pick up a history book. The Nazis didn't come to power until 1933.
This post was edited on 1/18/14 at 7:49 am
Posted on 1/18/14 at 7:59 am to Granny Panties
hard to believe that this year will be the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI
Posted on 1/18/14 at 8:01 am to DevilDawgTiger
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The Nazis didn't come to power until 1933. This was the Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic didn't exist until the fall of the German Empire at the end of WWI and the German Revolution.
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Pick up a history book.
Take your own advice.
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This post was edited on 1/18 at 7:49 am
Also, I copied and pasted your original post before you edited.
I love when smug know-it-alls are completely wrong and caught in it, and its even better when they try to cover their tracks--then get caught doing that.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 8:10 am to Granny Panties
Spielberg and Hanks need to do a band of brothers - WWI Edition.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 8:10 am to TIGERSandFROGS
Nazis. 
Posted on 1/18/14 at 8:22 am to VanRIch
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Spielberg and Hanks need to do a band of brothers - WWI Edition.
I support. I would love to see some WWI movies with modern special effects.
War Horse was decent.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 8:24 am to northshorebamaman
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It doesn't get much worse than a trench warfare stalemate, with gas attacks thrown in for good measure. I was just reading a first person account earlier. The guy said they would wake up with rats clamped into the cartilage of their noses. They would have to use their bayonets to cut them loose. Imagine going back to sleep after that.
I remember reading one WWI vets account of life in the trenches where he said the feral cats were the worst. He described one particular cat that took up residence in the partially hollowed out chest cavity of a dead German soldier laying out in no-man's land. The damn cat stayed there for days eating this dude from the inside. From what he said it was not uncommon to see cats doing things like this.
This post was edited on 1/18/14 at 8:26 am
Posted on 1/18/14 at 8:33 am to VanRIch
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Posted by VanRIch Spielberg and Hanks need to do a band of brothers - WWI Edition.
Ernest Borgnine and John-Boy from the Walton's (I can't remember his real name) starred in a remake of "Alls Quiet of the Western Front" back in the 70s which was very good.
There was a move about the "lost battalion" made a few years ago starting the kid from Silver Spoons. Seems like it was made for TV but it was really well made. Seems like it was titled "The Lost battalion".
More recently there was Flyboys about the volunteer American pilots who flew for the French before the US entered the war. It's a bit of a love story and Hollywood took some liberties. But still a decent movie.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 8:35 am to Granny Panties
But wheres the beef?
Posted on 1/18/14 at 8:50 am to Granny Panties
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German engineers discovered cow intestines to be perfect leak proof material.
As an interesting aside, The ancient sumerian people discovered around 200 AD that goat intestines made great condoms. But the English are widely considered to have revolutionized their use by the 1600's by removing them from the goat first.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 8:51 am to bengalbait
I bet steak was cheap.
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