All is quite on the European front /pol/
>>72602849
IF WE USE FUCKING SHRAPNEL SHELLS AGAINST THE BARBED WIRE, ITLL BE BLOWN AWAY.
>Tfw a bunch of recruit artillerymen were the reason the Somme was so bloody.
>>72602849
Quiet***
>American education
>>72602973
>Australians
>Grammar nazis
N-no pls, dun do this 2 me.
>>72602959
...what? look at the damn aerial photographs. nothing was left. somme was bloody due to poor communications (advance too far get cut off and slaughtered) and both sides deciding that artillery strikes should counter enemy movement.
>>72603026
ID almost PEPE
>>72603066
You obviously don't know anything about the Somme.
>>72603171
explain yourself.
>>72603171
The artillery shells did blow away the barbed wire though
>>72603159
Id is almost xporn
>>72603289
right, and most everything else. thank you.
This song is perfect for today.
The fire rises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPN-vp-quOs
>>72603272
More then half of all the shells that was fired on the first day, where Duds, they used shrapnel shells to blow the barbed wire, not HE.
It didn't even damage the wire.
>>72603420
welcome
>>72602973
I oooppppppssssss myself
>>72603460
and yet the entire battlefield was reduced to crater upon crater upon mud upon further crater. now when I say wire, I'm thinking of the intended setups, like the sappers would unroll methodically. I can understand the wire being tossed about and still somewhat of a hazard, but most of it had to be damaged or simply buried by the bombardment, thus less effective. I fail to see how it could still be such a hazard when the entire landscape has been churned like butter.
