International Military history thread

[Boxeo12]

Post anything about old wars pics videos documentries etc .

The Scots in WW1 got nicknamed ladies from hell off the Germans .One good book I read was Scottish voices from the great war .The jungles in vietnam looked brutal the vietcong traps plus all the spiders , giant centepedes etc .Scapa flow in Scotland was a brutal post during the 2 world wars .Don't know were to start maybe the sinking of the Royal Oak during WW2 in Scotland off Gunther Prein nicknamed the bull of scapa flow .

 

[Cole train]

Still best pic to show how ridiculous WW1 was from tech point of view

 

[Boxeo12]

Major General V M Fortune, GOC [General Commanding Officer] 51st Highland Division ,with General Major Erwin Rommel at St. Valéry after the surrender of the 51st Division to Rommel's 7th Panzer Division (12th June 1940) .

 

[A Very Serious Cat]

Thus guy does really good youtube vids about some of the more overlooked events in military history, and some famous ones too but they're still well done all the same

 

[Boxeo12]

Rations in the trenches bully beef and biscuits lol . In the book scottish voices from the great war there's a bully beef poem .I hated on rations in the field in this era wonder how brutal it was eating bully beef constant in the trenches . Might be hard to understand cause it's old Scottish .

My Bully Beef
The hours I spend with thee, dear friend, Are like a nightmare without end. On you alone for life I must depend My Bully Beef! My Bully Beef!
Each tin a meal, each meal a groan, There’s gristle, fat and ground-up bone, I finish up each tin and then – A biscuit comes alone. O Woeful Fate! That I should eat

This tramway accident for meat, In you I find odd arms and legs and feet My Bully Beef! My Bully Beef! Each meal a pain, each pain a pill, But, never mind, I’ll bear up still. The biscuit’s waiting by my side
It can’t do more than kill. With you I’m fed, till I’m fed up You’re breakfast, dinner, tea and sup You’re food and drink and clothes to this poor pup My Bully Beef! My Bully Beef!
Each bite a joy, each joy pure bliss, Do I want salmon when I’ve got this? You rich who banquet at the Ritz – Poor devils! What you miss!! When I get killed they’ll pack me in No! Not a coffin, but a tin
And when I’m served you’ll murmur ‘mid the din My Bully Beef! My Bully Beef! Each limb a tin, each tin good fare, All my equipment will be there It may be pleasant eating me But of my pack beware!

 

[Boxeo12]

 

[Jonathan Utah]

 

[Rational Poster]

I've been very interested in pre-War (pre-carrier) navies recently.

Countries back then invested what would today be hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars into massive surface fleets.

It's just crazy to think how much of our wealth was spent on the pre-carrier fleets and then we almost never used them for their intended purpose.

Youtuber Drachinifel has a lot of indepth historical vids on just about every ship or battle you can think of.

 

[Spounman]

I saw this one the other day, incredibly sad what happened to these people but the world needs to see it and feel it so it won't happen again

 

[White Whale]

Saw this video months ago and it's pretty disturbing what happened in WW2.

 

[Jonathan Utah]

 

[avenue94]

I've been very interested in pre-War (pre-carrier) navies recently.

Countries back then invested what would today be hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars into massive surface fleets.

It's just crazy to think how much of our wealth was spent on the pre-carrier fleets and then we almost never used them for their intended purpose.

Youtuber Drachinifel has a lot of indepth historical vids on just about every ship or battle you can think of.

Yeah I believe the Yamato (ship, not class) was something like 2 or 3 percent of Japan's entire annual GDP. Which is mindbogglingly.

 

[Rational Poster]

Yeah I believe the Yamato (ship, not class) was something like 2 or 3 percent of Japan's entire annual GDP. Which is mindbogglingly.

Yamato at least go to successfully fire its guns at enemy warships. Can't say that for a lot of big ships.

Not even Yamato's sister ship Musashi got to actually shoot at another warship.

 

[Zer]

I've been very interested in pre-War (pre-carrier) navies recently.

Countries back then invested what would today be hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars into massive surface fleets.

It's just crazy to think how much of our wealth was spent on the pre-carrier fleets and then we almost never used them for their intended purpose.

Youtuber Drachinifel has a lot of indepth historical vids on just about every ship or battle you can think of.

Drachinifel is gold. His breakdowns on pretty much any topic are so detailed and interesting, but also very accessible to people like me who only have a passing interest. I can listen to him for hours

This is one my favourite videos of his, and perhaps a timely one since it's about the staggering incompetence in the Russian military. It's a fun watch

 

[avenue94]

Yamato at least go to successfully fire its guns at enemy warships. Can't say that for a lot of big ships.

Not even Yamato's sister ship Musashi got to actually shoot at another warship.

I suppose. Even if destroyer escorts and baby carriers are not exactly an equal match commensurate to investment.

 

[ElKarlo]

Still best pic to show how ridiculous WW1 was from tech point of view

Yep that was nuts

my favorite Story is about an Italian cavalry brigade that was operating during case blue and southern Russia in 1942. This is probably late May, the unit at camp for the night and in the morning They woke up I found there’s a Soviet unit right next to them. They mounted up and attacked. The general couldn’t pull his sword out of the scabbard do the frost! He took a grenade and held above his head and wave it around. They charged the surprised Soviets and defeated them. A German advisor said to the Italian general “Sir you can’t do that anymore”. Like he was talking to a guy trying to smoke inside a store

 

[ElKarlo]

Yeah I believe the Yamato (ship, not class) was something like 2 or 3 percent of Japan's entire annual GDP. Which is mindbogglingly.

Oh yeah. They used all, I mean all the rope production in Japan to hide the ships under so no one could get a look at them while under production. Japan was still super poor and it’s economy was about the size of Italy’s at the start of wwii

 

[fingercuffs]

Post anything about old wars pics videos documentries etc .

The Scots in WW1 got nicknamed ladies from hell off the Germans .One good book I read was Scottish voices from the great war .The jungles in vietnam looked brutal the vietcong traps plus all the spiders , giant centepedes etc .Scapa flow in Scotland was a brutal post during the 2 world wars .Don't know were to start maybe the sinking of the Royal Oak during WW2 in Scotland off Gunther Prein nicknamed the bull of scapa flow .

My Grandpa did the photography and the recce for The Dambusters.
I went to The Intrepid in New York and saw some of his photos. He was honoured with The Distinguished Fly Cross. Shot out of the sky twice. A true way hero.

 

[A Very Serious Cat]

Still best pic to show how ridiculous WW1 was from tech point of view

Man ww1 was something else. I always thought it was bad but Dan Carlins series on it was the first time I realized just how bad. It was the first time I had seen the fact that on top of everything else many parts of the war was like living and fighting in a open graveyard, destroyed and rotting corpses everywhere, poorly buried men lining the floors and walls of the trenches. No doubt that it's the worst war to live through ever

 

[Cuauhtemoc]

Yep that was nuts

my favorite Story is about an Italian cavalry brigade that was operating during case blue and southern Russia in 1942. This is probably late May, the unit at camp for the night and in the morning They woke up I found there’s a Soviet unit right next to them. They mounted up and attacked. The general couldn’t pull his sword out of the scabbard do the frost! He took a grenade and held above his head and wave it around. They charged the surprised Soviets and defeated them. A German advisor said to the Italian general “Sir you can’t do that anymore”. Like he was talking to a guy trying to smoke inside a store

I'm a little unsure how vulnerable horses actually were to single shot or bolt action rifles. At first I was under the impression they were useless, a giant unarmored target. But I've read that in many cases when charged by rifle wielding horseman many people would panic and miss their shot and get killed.
Of course, well trained troops would just take their time and pick off the horsemen but otherwise you see it time and time again successful horse attacks against guys with rifles. Pancho Villa had lots of success with that tactic, Frederick Selous in South Africa, Semyon Buddiony in Russia etc.

Of course, the faster your follow-up shot the worse for the horseman and in WW2 when you had lots of guys with automatic weapons it got hard.