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BATTLEFIELD DETECTIVES: WORLD WAR ONE - THE SOMME In just one day almost 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded. Why was this first day on the Somme such a disaster for the British? World War I, trenches and barbed wire ran across the entire continent of Europe from the Mediterranean to the North Sea. At 7:30am on July 1st, 1916, after a devastating artillery bombardment lasting more than a week, 100,000 British soldiers waited in their trenches ready to advance on the German lines. They'd been told to expect minimal resistance, but as they picked their way slowly across no-man's-land, guns opened fire. Shells burst overhead, and waves of men were machine-gunned down. It was a military catastrophe of unprecedented proportions. Filmed on the battlefield itself, in laboratories and on firing ranges - archaeologists, military historians, and other experts from disciplines as diverse as metallurgy and geology investigate the factors and conduct tests to replicate and understand the factors that turned one terrible day into the bloodiest in the history of the British Army.
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I would have gladley fought and died for my country Canada in ww1 but at what cause when you look at todays society spawning Donald Trumps and potentially ww3.
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Wow that means only 20,000 dead soldiers came home while the other 80,000 are still there in the same position that they died in 100 years ago
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If I'm not mistaken the bullets they were firing for the walking with weight test were blanks not facing backwards
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@ 10:22 Lt Colonel pretending to do some work in front of the camera. I bet as soon as filming stops, he gives the work to a junior rank.
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At 2:16 Lynette from Series three (2016) of Time Commanders
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At 43.32 - The ANZACs and the Turks used these raiding techniques, and with varying successes against each other at Gallipoli in 1915. Also, the Newfoundland Regiment learnt these techniques during this Battle. The British eventually picked it up later in 1916.
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100 year's ago, where's the time gone!!
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Clearly, If you want to justify the top military incompetence, find the historian :-) ... the battle(s) of Somme was in 1916, two years down the road and few millions soldiers less since the first WWI massacres by machine guns begun, and those commentators still have an audacity to talk about "necessary" sacrifice of lives in order to learn a better battle technique. Amazing...
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this is the real battlefield everyone
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Eerrrm . the german stahlhelm was designed by Dr Augustus Bier as I recall. And of course poison gas was promulgated by another german medic.
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At the age of 67 I still remember my old uncle who was called up on August the third 1914; to the Duke of Lancasters Own Yeomantry, later the Lancashire Fusiliers. Clearly a damaged man but neverthless a very compassionate man. War is hell. It's pretty awful reading the idiotic comments on this channel.
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Well this is the one side of coin .. whats on other side .. we wanna at that time what was going on in German side
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My brother died in ww1.
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35:53 sorry, Sir, but if 2 people survive the first assault and 4 survive the second assault, it's a 100% improvement, not 50%. A 50% improvement would have been 3 survivors. I see British officers still aren't that smart lol.
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do any of you guys know mrs. Bucket?
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I blame lag
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This is VERY interesting!!!
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The saddest part was that the Allies gave up the German positions 6 weeks later. The PR from the "Victory" was over shortly and stalemate returned. I was a massive waste of life, on both sides. The best part was that the Generals in Britain never came across the Channel to actually look at the battlefield. Thus they had absolutely no understanding of what happened on the ground. The horror of the Somme was strictly to serve the egos of REMF brass.
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hei dice
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Damn Germans, always being good at engineering and stuff...