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The way they can figure what the Lads are saying is by reading their lips...

WW1 was unbridled slaughter...carnage and mayhem. If the machine guns or artillery didn't get you the poison gas would. The Brits suffered 60,000 casualties in ONE DAY on the Somme in 1916. Every battle was like that..the US AEF was losing 1000 men a week in the Meuse Argonne offensive. Compare that to what America has lost in the Sand boxes since 2001.*

The American ACE Raoul Lufbery flying for the Lafayette Escadrille said that if his plane ever caught fire rather than burn he would jump and he did..the Balloon Lads used parachutes but the fliers did not until near the end of the war. The life expectancy of a British flier on the Western Front was 2 weeks.

Hitler joined a Bavarian Regt at the beginning of WW1 serving as a in the trenches courier through out the war. He was awarded the Iron Cross for bravery and was temporarily blinded by gas towards the end. He had numerous close calls, once just having left a dugout when it was hit by an Artillery shell killing everyone who was in it.

The Red Barron Von Richthofen on his last sortee was chasing a novice British airman by the name of May over the front lines when an Australian on the ground machine gunner hit him through his side. He was able to bring his plane down, where an Australian soldier helped him out of the plane where he said "Kaputt" as his final word before he died. What is totally amazing is that Australian soldier was interviewed around 2007 on TV relating his experience.


* The Russians lost 1,000,000 killed at Stalingrad in 1942. The Germans lost an Army of 250,000.