World War I in photos (Final installment)

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Posted: 5/5/2014 6:42:40 PM EDT

The Atlantic is doing a photo series on WWI. Some amazing pics that display just how horrific trench warfare was, and the effect the war had on the area. Some images are graphic.

WWI in photos: Introduction
WWI in photos: The Western Front
WWI in photos: World War I Technology
WWI in photos: Animals at War
WWI in photos: War in the Skies
WWI in photos: The Soldiers and Civilians
WWI in photos: War at Sea
WWI in photos: The Global War
WWI in photos: The Western Front, Part II
WWI in photos: World War I Today

Posted: 5/5/2014 6:45:07 PM EDT

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Cool photos. Thanks for sharing.

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:01:23 PM EDT

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Meat grinder.

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:05:00 PM EDT

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incredible

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:09:17 PM EDT

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I thought the description on this photo was funny....said the pilot made an 'emergency landing'

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:09:36 PM EDT

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The Atlantic is doing a photo series on WWI. Some amazing pics that display just how horrific trench warfare was, and the effect the war had on the area. Some images are graphic.

WWI in photos: Introduction
WWI in photos: The Western Front

It's a 10 part series so I'll try to update as each serires comes out.

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My great Aunt had some books from that time period that were nothing but photos. They were simply titled "The Truth". Very undergroundish for and at the time. I wish I could find them and scan them for the Web but they are probably in my brother's barn in a box several states away now

Ahhh, here's one of them! The Absolute Truth

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:10:46 PM EDT

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Amazing pictures.

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:14:45 PM EDT

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TAG for home.

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:20:55 PM EDT

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Dazzle camo was pretty cool technology for back then. Amazing how far we had come in 100 years.

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:23:18 PM EDT

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I've become kinda fascinated by The Great War in the last few years because no one really talked about it compared to the other ones.

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:23:57 PM EDT

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I don't know if I could have stood up to that.

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:24:45 PM EDT

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Why funny? It was a perfect tree point landing.

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:28:59 PM EDT

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http://i.imgur.com/paI4tKX.jpg

Why funny? It was a perfect tree point landing.

OOOH I see what you did there!
LOL

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:29:19 PM EDT

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Awesome pics, thanks for sharing the link. Looking forward to the rest of the albums. WWI is probably my favorite war to study.

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:31:50 PM EDT

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Why funny? It was a perfect tree point landing.

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:32:56 PM EDT

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Very interesting, thank you. It will take a while to look them all over.

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:37:37 PM EDT

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Wow. Thanks for posting OP.

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:39:06 PM EDT

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TAG

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:41:32 PM EDT

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Tag for when I have time.

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:44:24 PM EDT

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Wow...Just Wow! Thanks for posting OP!

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:46:12 PM EDT

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I don't like to read about it, All the great war aims seem so minor given the catastrophies that occurred - uncounted millions of dead, Flanders, Somme, Ypres, gas, days long bombardments, etc. It was a scale of slaughter on a scale that is impossible to comprehend - whole villages became extinct when all the men were killed, the many times capture of Ft. Vaux, the terrors of submarine warfare.

All that happened of consequence was to set the stage for a rematch 20 years later. France was a walking zombie, England had it's Caimbridge declaration "under no circumstances will this body fight for king and country again."

The events of WW1 set the stage for European malaise and paralysis and selfdoubt we see today. WW1 was one of the greatest catastrophies of world history, on par with the Mongol invasion, fall of Constantople, or the Muslim conquest of North Africa.

Reading about WW1, and I've read my share of it, is profoundly disturbing to me.

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:55:37 PM EDT

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Me too,I even put a manequinn together.

Posted: 5/5/2014 7:57:50 PM EDT

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Excellent stuff OP, thanks for posting.

Posted: 5/5/2014 8:02:08 PM EDT

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Thanks OP , Now I have more interest in WW1 .

Posted: 5/5/2014 8:02:47 PM EDT

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Thanks for the post OP.

Posted: 5/5/2014 8:07:16 PM EDT

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Wow thanks for the post.

WWI was truly hell.

Posted: 5/5/2014 8:18:31 PM EDT

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tag

Posted: 5/5/2014 8:27:40 PM EDT

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Damn, a reminder of what a mess it was.

Posted: 5/5/2014 8:29:32 PM EDT

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Thanks for posting

Posted: 5/5/2014 8:29:59 PM EDT

[#29]

Fantastic pics. Thanks OP!

Posted: 5/5/2014 8:32:59 PM EDT

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My Great Grand Father died in France in 1918.

Posted: 5/5/2014 8:33:50 PM EDT

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In some of the pictures you can see that the soldiers covered the actions of their rifles with canvas. interning to know that bolt actions are not at impervious as we thought.

Posted: 5/5/2014 8:35:20 PM EDT

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Sorry for you families loss.

It was the lost generation. The british lost 50,000 in one day! Can you imagine if we had casualties of that magnitude today. The war would be over quick.

Posted: 5/5/2014 8:45:17 PM EDT

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Really brutal photos. Thank you for sharing, though.

WWI must have suuuuuucked, and I mean that with the utmost respect for those who served. Awful conditions, strategy, tech, medicine.....just mechanized and advanced enough though to keep the destruction fast-paced.

Posted: 5/5/2014 8:46:18 PM EDT

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amazing pics - thank you for sharing

Posted: 5/5/2014 9:01:58 PM EDT

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Very cool, thank you.

Posted: 5/5/2014 9:53:40 PM EDT

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I like this Picture

Posted: 5/5/2014 11:11:08 PM EDT

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IIRC, the gas masks of the French that look like sacks, were activated using urine.
Not sure how much I would want that by my face....but it beats a painful, miserable suffering death.

Posted: 5/5/2014 11:41:29 PM EDT

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i see WW1 is magnitudes worse than WW2. WW2 had scale, it had death and destruction but.. WW1 is one of those wars that has a deep guttural terror to it. a terrror brought about because of a pissing match between the royals of europe. a terror that TO THIS DAY we are still paying a price for. you read about it and learn about it and its a sadness and a fear that gets you in the pit of your stomach and shakes your soul. there was no legitimate reason for that mess. none.

Posted: 5/5/2014 11:41:29 PM EDT

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Neat-o.

Posted: 5/6/2014 12:06:35 AM EDT

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Cool photos

Posted: 5/6/2014 12:43:56 AM EDT

[#41]

Thanks for sharing OP.

Posted: 5/6/2014 1:00:29 AM EDT

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Bump for later read. Thank you to th op.

Posted: 5/6/2014 1:16:58 AM EDT

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Thanks for the photos.

Posted: 5/6/2014 1:20:58 AM EDT

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I want to go back to Verdun & the Somme for their 100-year anniversaries.

Verdun is creepy as hell.

Posted: 5/6/2014 2:01:20 AM EDT

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I've become kinda fascinated by The Great War in the last few years because no one really talked about it compared to the other ones.

Me too,I even put a manequinn together.

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Display at the DeKalb County (Georgia) History Center, about ten years ago.

Posted: 5/6/2014 2:04:46 AM EDT

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Verdun is creepy as hell.
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Wife and I visited Passchendaele three years ago. Farmers are still digging up artifacts (including UXO), 100 years later.

Our guide, holding a couple of Mills bombs he picked out of a field while we watched.

Posted: 5/6/2014 2:48:35 AM EDT

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Cool pics, I'll definitely check out Part 3.

Pulled this from the comments:

SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES
By Siegfried Sassoon

I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.

In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.