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World War 1. 100 years ago right now

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On this day 100 years ago, a coded telegram was sent by German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann to German Ambassador to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt. In this telegram, Zimmermann instructed von Eckardt to offer Mexico a military alliance and financial support against the United States should they not remain neutral. This was a possibility since Germany was about to unleash unrestricted submarine warfare.

 

Military History Visualized German Military Intelligence was and probably will always be a joke... see also a few years ago when somebody stole the plans for the new BND office...
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The Great War - The Online Video Series they also stole faucets worth a lot of money from the construction site.

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affy Mac Is this the planning for Vimy?
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The Great War - The Online Video Series believe so, yes. Just starting to read up about it.
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n observer of the Royal Flying Corps in a reconnaissance aircraft. Aerial observation technology developed fast during the war because having an idea about the enemy defences could be the deciding factor in an attack. In the beginning pilots would use hand drawn sketches or fly different manoeuvres to communicate with the artillery. But soon aerial cameras where used to document trench networks.

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A German sniper and his spotter in a trench. This photo is probably staged, sniper (and sniper teams) had relative autonomy in choosing their position. Especially later in the war, they would built their own parapets from rubble or more sophisticated versions which resembled trees or other natural items.

While the Germans and the French entered the war on the Western Front with rules and at least some equipment for "sharpshooters", the British were pretty unprepared and had to adapt fast.

 

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The Great War - The Online Video Series They used them for exactly that during offensives. During the "quiet" time they were more used as a psychological weapon.

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"It was not easy to heat meals. On the whole it tended to be eaten cold."

The accumulation of a lump of fat on top of barely recognizable chunks of meat and vegetables led one reporter to describe Maconochie as "an inferior grade of garbage".

"There were some who would have said you needed a medal to eat a Maconochie, it was so vile," Mr Bowman says.

Barbara Buchan, from Fraserburgh Heritage Centre, says there are some records in its archive that show a more positive response to the tinned ration.

She says: "There is a letter from the local paper in which a soldier had written home and said a German prisoner had enjoyed his Maconochie's meal of meat and haricot beans."

So maybe if you were hungry enough, it was tolerable.

Apart from its "vile" taste there was one other unfortunate quality possessed by the Maconochie's stew.

Some versions contained turnips and when combined with the beans it had an unfortunate and smelly side-effect.

In his book, Hell in the Holy Land: World War one in the Middle East, David R Woodward writes of a soldier called Calcutt, a private serving in the Middle East, who says: "One of the features of the night marches was the frightful stink.

"The Maconochie's stew ration gave the troops flatulence of a particularly offensive nature.

"So we marched along on air released by hundreds of men breaking wind."

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USA breaks diplomacy with Germany and Austria-Hungary.

February 4, 1917: We do not desire any hostile conflict with the German government

 

Woodrow Wilson breaks diplomatic relations with Germany. But, Wilson tells a joint session of Congress, “We do not desire any hostile conflict with the German government.” He says he “cannot bring myself to believe” that Germany intends to do what it says it will do; “I cannot bring myself to believe that they will indeed pay no regard to the ancient friendship between their people and our own... Only actual overt acts on their part can make me believe it even now.” SPOILER ALERT: Believe it, dude

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