[Rockpile]

The British and Commonwealth lost 19000 dead IN ONE DAY July 1, 1916.
First day of the Somme campaign. It is kinda sickening to even type that.

It would require an atom bomb to do that now.

[dfwgator]

Never thought Lemmy could write a song that literally brings tears to one’s eye.

[Mark17]

The British and Commonwealth lost 19000 dead IN ONE DAY July 1, 1916.

I could be wrong, but I think the British lost more in WW 1 than they did in WW 2.

[Pontiac]

It is the kind of casualties that happen when new technology (heavy machineguns) makes old battlefield tactics obsolete and the generals don’t have the wit to realize that new tactics are not only necessary be absolutely essential to the survival of the army.