Compare it to this other, authentic one:
Notice the shell burst and ruined gun in the background of both photos. The tank is missing, and the Germans pasted in.
Busted...
wow, thank you for posting these photos. I think the last British survivor of Passchendaele died about a year ago.
Can you imagine what the Left today would have said back then?
Amazing pictures. Thank you for posting them.
Interesting...
Small consolation ...
I think many Americans fail to comprehend how costly the Great War was to the English. An entire generation of Brits vanished in the muck and mire of the trenches. That and the Blitz have to be the biggest scars modern-day Great Britain bears.
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I have walked the battlefield, and the cemeteries. Words truly fail. To follow the trench lines, to try and imagine what it was like..is near impossibel to do. The minds can’t grasp it. What si also amazing are the huge areas of soil where nothing grows..no vegetation...not even weeds. The huge artillery bombardment left so much chemical residue in the soild that nothign can grow there.
http://www.jacquelinewinspear.com/france_photos.htm
Two British staff officers sent up to the front to report back on the situation was so shocked by the swamp like edges of the battlefield that one broke down and sobbed. "Good God, did we really send men to fight in this?".
IOW, the British military leadership didn't even bother to visit the place -- they just said, "keep moving." Haig was not alone in this: it was probably the defining reason for the unbelievable carnage of WWI.
Except for the subject matter, the photographs are superb. Didn’t think that they were able to take photographs of that high a quality during WWI.
Compare it to this other, authentic one:
Notice the shell burst and ruined gun in the background of both photos. The tank is missing, and the Germans pasted in.
Busted...
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Thanks. My husband is a revolutionary war/civil war/first world war/second world war buff, so I just emailed him the link.
Thanks for posting these photos of a real hell hole. Indcons, thanks for the link.
Jimbo
These photos prove just one thing, war IS Hell.
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two-week bombardment in which 3,000 heavy guns sent more than four million shells95 a day per gun.
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Body counts are for readers of history and viewers of TV news. Most Soldiers take no glee in causing the death of another human being. Killing another person is something that must be taught to most. Many are struggle with demons brought about by killing someone, whoever necessary the pulling of the trigger was. My dad, Sgt Maj Gamecock, was an 11B with 2 CIBs, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star and loved talking about being in the Army for 20+ years, yet never spoke about pulling the trigger.
But what do I know, I'm busy cleaning up a lot of these issues with the current generation of warriors.