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Ayo!!!! It reall has a wonderful shape.
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According to a Simple History video, A Kukri legend is that A Gurkha HAS to spill blood every time he unsheathes his Kukri.
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The fact soldiers used items like the Gurkha and bolo knives as well as shovels for close quarters fighting isn't surprising, but those maces are certainly a surprise.
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It was really a lousy war, on the Alpine side of the Italian-Austrian front there were hidden bears' cutters in the snow, or cannon shots were fired on the snowy slopes to cause avalanches.
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The YouTube Channel "The Great War" is pretty good. We have a local war museum with some pretty interesting WWI artifacts. And you're right. That war was about has horrific as it gets.
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Yes true, I like it. We have a local museum too dedicated to ww1, but the largest
are in the areas where there were fights, in Veneto, Trentino and Friuli.
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AWESOME! A really interesting topic explored in exquisite detail.
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The trenches were an education in brutality, even if a lot of these medieval looking implements caused so few casualties.
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World War I has always fascinated me, it was an example of how you can pull the rope before it breaks. A horror with no escape and no end.
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lmao, turkish mace looks like a wooden spoon, imagine a dozen turkish soldiers running at you with them wooden spoons during ww1 lmao
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Man, 1910s people knew all the best ways to disassemble each other.
gorgeous illustration work as always, friend.
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They had a wild imagination, I truly believe that the First World War was a horror without end. The grandfather of my cousin stayed there two days buried under the earth, to the explosion of a howitzer, he he became a stutterer
and could not sleep with the light off, my paternal grandfather lost three fingers of his right hand, and I think I heard him mention only two times in 8 years.
Thank you, very appreciate my friend
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Oh yes, all grist for the mill.
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I just find it funny the US has a shotgun versus the Italian and German submachine gun. The fact that the Germans complained about the shotgun and the US not the submachine gun or that sawed back bayonet
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I agree, after they used gas, everything else was fine.
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Yes it is so there is a better word than hypacritical of them, there has to be.
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It's a sad world my friend
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Ah the tools of the trade for that up close and personal fight, strange note the Winchester M1897 was considered an unfair weapon by the Germans. Shot guns have devastating effect at close range.
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This gun was devasting indeed, of course not more unfair than the other trench weapons, or than a machine-gun sheltered behind barbed wire
I hope you are safe from the big Californian fire of these days!
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Oh yes very safe fires are on other side of country. Barb wire and machine guns are an effective defense, however that because the guys in no mans land only had the shirt on there back for protection.
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it is true, they were almost helpless.
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BF1 WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Lol, I hope that at least 60% of these are in the BF1 game
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Lol,
I really don't know, but game developers are very savvy, this is really possible!
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One thing I like is the evolution of the U.S. trench knife during this war. The first ones were almost laughably slender, then the new ones, which you've drawn here look badass.
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Oh yes, the model 1917, if only I had more room in the plate.........
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The model 1917 is the earlier one? I don't recall their specific names, medieval swords are more my thing.
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Medieval sword are more interesting and fashinating , I agree with you
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I do enjoy designing them.
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There are different styles of American issue Trench Knives. Some have a hand guard with small spikes and not brass knuckles. The spike on the bottom of the handle of the US Trench knife you show is for a skull cracking action. Some Knuckle knives just have a flat end screwdriver instead of a blade. That version of a Trench knife can be used as a screwdriver, or for stabbing, or downward stabbing action through a German steel helmet. American Bayonets and Bolo fighting knives have a spike on the bottom of the handle that sticks out at a 45 degree angle under the hand when held. I saw a WW2 Judo US Military Manual that showed the spike was for breaking noses and knocking out teeth. The WW2 era manual showed a drawing of a Nazi officer being knocked across the nose with the bottom handle spike on a Bolo knife. Even the Spanish American War bayonets have this spike. Here is a link to some photos.
nicholasweed.deviantart.com/ar…
I believe there was an entrenching spade in the Spanish American War that was also meant to be a knife for stabbing people. But many Spanish American War era American bayonets were altered into fighting knives during WW1. A US M-1910 "T" Handeled Shovel could also be used to hack at somebody.
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Very interesting, thank you for share.
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