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MARCH 21 , 2017

MARCH 21 , 2017. If your birthday is Jan., Feb, March, April, May, or June you are French/British If your birthday is July, Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec you are German You need stuff for notes and some extra scratch paper. Objective: To examine the horrors of trench warfare. Trench Warfare.

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MARCH 21 , 2017

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  1. MARCH 21, 2017 If your birthday is Jan., Feb, March, April, May, or June you are French/British If your birthday is July, Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec you are German You need stuff for notes and some extra scratch paper

  2. Objective: To examine the horrors of trench warfare.

  3. Trench Warfare Trench Warfare – type of fighting during World War I in which both sides dug trenches protected by mines and barbed wire Cross-section of a front-line trench 

  4. British trench, France, July 1916 (during the Battle of the Somme)

  5. French soldiers firing over their own dead

  6. An aerial photograph of the opposing trenches and no-man's land in Artois, France, July 22, 1917. German trenches are at the right and bottom, British trenches are at the top left. The vertical line to the left of centre indicates the course of a pre-war road.

  7. Bet You Didn’t Know-Trench Warfare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njbA_0gGwr8

  8. Life in a Trench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G4ZY66BG38

  9. Trench Rats Many men killed in the trenches were buried almost where they fell. These corpses, as well as the food scraps that littered the trenches, attracted rats. Quotes from soldiers fighting in the trenches: "The rats were huge. They were so big they would eat a wounded man if he couldn't defend himself." "I saw some rats running from under the dead men's greatcoats, enormous rats, fat with human flesh. My heart pounded as we edged towards one of the bodies. His helmet had rolled off. The man displayed a grimacing face, stripped of flesh; the skull bare, the eyes devoured and from the yawning mouth leapt a rat."

  10. Officers walking through a flooded communication trench.

  11. WARNING: NASTY TRENCH FOOT SLIDES NEXT!!!

  12. TRENCH FOOT!!!!

  13. Dulce Et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we turned our backsAnd towards our distant rest began to trudge.Men marched asleep. Many had lost their bootsBut limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hootsOf disappointed shells that dropped behind.GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;But someone still was yelling out and stumblingAnd floundering like a man in fire or lime.--Dim, through the misty panes and thick green lightAs under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

  14. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.If in some smothering dreams you too could paceBehind the wagon that we flung him in,And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;If you could hear, at every jolt, the bloodCome gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cudOf vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--My friend, you would not tell with such high zestTo children ardent for some desperate glory,The old Lie: Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori. (“How fitting and sweet it is to die for one’s country.”)

  15. Early Gas Masks • The canister gas mask: used for chlorine and tear gas • There was no mask that could offer protection from the blistering mustard gas which attacks all exposed flesh.

  16. Soldiers digging trenches while protected against gas attacks

  17. 'Gassed'. Painting by John Singer Sargent, 1918/1919.

  18. New Technology of WWI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7v3cq1ZJjM

  19. Resting in the Trenches Australians resting up in a dug-out are sheltered from shelling 15 feet underground during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916

  20. Diagram of Trenches • Diagram of a dug-out as being used by the Australians in the photo

  21. Preparing to Move • The Lancashire Fusiliers fix bayonets as they prepare to go "over the top" in the Battle of the Somme, July 1916

  22. German Trenches • Much deeper than the British trenches, the German trench system offered amenities such as barber shops and officer clubs!

  23. Moving forward! • Positioning newly brought-up artillery for the surprise attack. A brief, but intense, barrage of high-explosives and gas will prepare the way for the shock troops. The enemy will still be dazed by the time the first wave reaches them!

  24. The Christmas Truce, 1914 • Germans began decorating outside trenches • Sung carols • Exchanged gifts across “no man’s land!” • British, French, and German soldiers on the Western Front

  25. Stalemate on the Western Front • Trench warfare: extremely hard to MOVE forward • Example: at Verdun in 1916 750,000 men lost their lives and the Western front had moved LESS THAN 10 MILES!

  26. British Vickers machine gun crew, western front, World War I.

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