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re: Would you rather have gone “over the top” in WWI or been on the first wave on D-Day?
Posted on 5/23/18 at 8:13 pm to TygerTyger
Posted on 5/23/18 at 8:13 pm to TygerTyger
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Listen to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast on WW1 called "Countdown to Armageddon".
This is a great series to listen to. You hear and read about WW1, but when you try to really wrap your mind around it, it’s almost impossible for our generation to fathom. The war really made no sense, in which millions of men died for nothing. Take that and add the new age weaponry against old school tactics and you get those astronomical casualty results.
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Posted on 5/23/18 at 8:20 pm to JetsetNuggs
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The weaponry was way more advance by the time WWII came around.
The biggest "weapon" in WW1 was invented on the Oklahoma prairie - barbed wire. This, in addition to using 1864 tactics, generals who should have been long retired, and automatic weapons made WW1 a completely horrible experience where absolutely nothing good was accomplished. I would have much rather hit the beaches at Normandy than gone "over the top" in WW1. Your chances of survival were much greater in the latter.
Posted on 5/23/18 at 8:27 pm to JohnnyBgood
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This is a great series to listen to. You hear and read about WW1, but when you try to really wrap your mind around it, it’s almost impossible for our generation to fathom. The war really made no sense, in which millions of men died for nothing. Take that and add the new age weaponry against old school tactics and you get those astronomical casualty results.
People think this is cowardly for me to say this, but I don't think any generation from the Boomers on would fight in that war. Maybe for the first year, but Battle of the Somme time, you and your friends would kill your superior officer to avoid jumping over those trenches, risk the firing squad from there, and just hope that enough other soldiers on both sides had the same idea. Normandy I'm sure my generation would be up to the task with proper training, but Verdun and Somme, no fricking way. We wouldn't put up with that shite.
Posted on 5/23/18 at 9:06 pm to lsudave1
Dday happened once.
Going over the top more than once would have been enough for me I think.
Also I would rather face gunfire than nerve gas.
Going over the top more than once would have been enough for me I think.
Also I would rather face gunfire than nerve gas.
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