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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #270 on: September 26, 2018, 02:01:25 AM »

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #271 on: September 26, 2018, 09:40:08 PM »
12k Dead and 100k wounded out of 1.2 million engaged. Less than a 10% casualty rate. Something the Brits and Frogs rarely achieved.

You can chalk some of it to knowledge shared and the rest for Americans refusing to bow to conventional wisdom.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #272 on: September 27, 2018, 12:36:33 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, September 27, 1918.

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German prisoners taken by the 4th Canadian Division during its crossing of the Canal du Nord on 27 September 1918. The prisoners are near Inchy, which was just behind the Canadian sector of the front, to the west of the canal.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #273 on: September 27, 2018, 01:14:12 AM »
From the Library of Congress.  The St. Helens (Oregon) Mist, September 27, 1918.

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« Reply #274 on: September 27, 2018, 02:07:42 AM »
These letters bring the home the point that there were real people fighting this war, living through real hell. Not just some figure in a long forgotten history book.

Thank you for keeping their history alive.
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« Reply #275 on: September 27, 2018, 11:55:39 PM »
These letters bring the home the point that there were real people fighting this war, living through real hell. Not just some figure in a long forgotten history book.

Thank you for keeping their history alive.

Very welcome, my friend.  Yes, those letters are quite telling.  It surprises me how well written some of them are.  The soldiers all seem to possess a similer style of describing things.  A certain type of expression that was prevelent in that particular generation, I guess.

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« Reply #276 on: September 28, 2018, 12:33:00 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, September 28, 1918.

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Battle of the Canal du Nord. A German Gun Barrel on a travelling carriage abandoned by the roadside, near Moeuvres, 28th September 1918.
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Battle of Canal du Nord. Royal Engineers bridging the Canal du Nord near Moeuvres, 28th September 1918.
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'C' Battery of the American 108th Field Artillery Regiment (formerly 2nd Regiment Field Artillery and 1st Cavalry Pennsylvania National Guard) firing a salvo from the ruins of Varennes after the retreating enemy, 28 September 1918.
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Prisoners captured in the Battle of the Canal du Nord in a 'cage' near Bapaume, 28th September 1918.
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Battle of the Canal du Nord. Cooks of the Liverpool Regiment at work in the basin of the Canal near a lock near Moeuvres, 28 September 1918.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #277 on: September 28, 2018, 12:39:29 AM »
Some of those POWs look awful happy.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #278 on: September 28, 2018, 01:05:39 AM »
Some of those POWs look awful happy.

I know.  I'd be happy too if I was one of them.   

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #279 on: September 28, 2018, 01:12:42 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum.  The Seattle Star, September 28, 1918.

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« Reply #280 on: September 28, 2018, 11:03:45 AM »
Some of those POWs look awful happy.

One reason is that they would be getting their first real meal in ages. By this time in the war, the German ability to supply the diet a soldier needed to keep fighting was getting very hard to do.

Foodstuff imports was a very important part of German pre war trade because they could not provide it on their own.
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« Reply #281 on: September 28, 2018, 09:14:44 PM »
I drive by this monument fairly frequently.  Major Davis apparently died 100 years ago today 29SEP1918.

I just happened to stop an snap a photo a few weeks ago when all the flags were at half-mast for McCain I think.

Well, Major Davis, in my book the flag is at half-mast for you sir.  Thank you for your service.

EditToAdd:  Text on the monument:

MAJOR MURRAY DAVIS D.S.C.
KILLED IN ACTION AT EXERMONT FRANCE
SEPTEMBER TWENTY NINTH MCMXVIII
SERIOUSLY WOUNDED HE REFUSED TO
RELINQUISH HIS COMMAND UNTIL MOR-
TALLY WOUNDED HE FELL LEADING HIS
COMRADES TO VICTORY HIS LAST WORDS
"TAKE CARE OF MY MEN"

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« Reply #282 on: September 28, 2018, 09:52:00 PM »
Some of those POWs look awful happy.
Wait 'til next time and see how happy they are to avoid the Soviets taking them prisoner.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #283 on: September 29, 2018, 09:48:34 AM »
Wait 'til next time and see how happy they are to avoid the Soviets taking them prisoner.

I just got done reading a book called "End Game 1945" It chronicles the last three months of the war in Europe and the aftermath. Although the official end of the war was May 7, Germans troops will still fighting their way across the Elbe river way past that date.

In small groups, they were still getting through until at least early August 1945. Some probably never officially surrendered when they got back to the western zones. Just melt back into the civilian population.

The book is a good read. I recommend it.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #284 on: September 29, 2018, 11:36:20 AM »
I drive by this monument fairly frequently.  Major Davis apparently died 100 years ago today 29SEP1918.

I just happened to stop an snap a photo a few weeks ago when all the flags were at half-mast for McCain I think.

Well, Major Davis, in my book the flag is at half-mast for you sir.  Thank you for your service.

EditToAdd:  Text on the monument:

MAJOR MURRAY DAVIS D.S.C.
KILLED IN ACTION AT EXERMONT FRANCE
SEPTEMBER TWENTY NINTH MCMXVIII
SERIOUSLY WOUNDED HE REFUSED TO
RELINQUISH HIS COMMAND UNTIL MOR-
TALLY WOUNDED HE FELL LEADING HIS
COMRADES TO VICTORY HIS LAST WORDS
"TAKE CARE OF MY MEN"

Thank you, pate.  Great picture of the monument.  I was going to respond to your post last night but I couldn't gain access to the website.  Anyway, I just wanted you to know that I came across some further information on what took place on this day, 100 years ago.  Taken from The Evening Missourian., November 23, 1918.

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Info on the park: https://kcparks.org/places/murray-davis/