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Shows you how much of that was going downrange, a virtual sheet of lead. Hold your hand up and not get a blighty, but it would be gone...
Make you wonder how many people got killed simultaneously
From one of my books I read in WWI the boys in the front line endured an artillery barrage from the Germans of all calibers of 1000 shells an hour which equated to 16.6666 shells per minute or roughly 3.6000 artillery shells per second not the sort of steel rain I would want to be caught in or have to sit through in the mud. :sos:
You just can't imagine the living hell fury of it can you.
As an aside, there is a tiny village just up the road from me, the "blink and you miss it" sort, while driving. They have a War memorial with 12 names on it, including two sets of brothers....
They lost a whole generation, the enormous sacrifice made by that one tiny village is very sobering...
When attending a war graves cemetery I would look for brothers. They often placed them together. There's a cemetery that Gil has shown us in Nicosia Cyprus by the grammar school, has three sets of brothers and father/son... English deaths from WW2 I think they were...Quote:
Originally Posted by mrclark303
The French countryside is full of memorials for WWI; there are plenty of families that ended with that conflict.
On the 11 of November nearly every village will hold a short service at it's memorial. The good news is people do bring there children; so encouraging them to learn.
Here's a photo from WWI showing an Enfield clip.
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Correction: One shell every 3.6 seconds ... on average ... but still an unimaginable volume of fire. :move eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by CINDERS
So this is what I did for my answer ~ 1000 shells per hour divided by 60 minutes in an hour which gave me 16.666666 recurring shells per minute I then to get the volume of shells per second I divided 16.666666 into 60 seconds (a minute) to get how many shells were falling each second and the answer I got was 3.6000001 shells per second is the mathematics I used to get the answer incorrect.:confused:
3.6 shells per second would equal nearly 13,000 shells an hour.
I think you divided in the wrong direction when you got down to 60 seconds.
Found this on that site where stuff sells for more than its worth, most of the time. Titled "Trench Art UNIFORM BUTTON with Embedded Bullet Shrapnel - ROYAL ENGINEERS Crest"
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Trench-Art-...UAAOSwuqdaoEhq
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Looks like the mouth of the cartridge still attached to the bullet and there don't appear to be any rifling marks on the base edge of the bullet. Driven through by wood block and hammer perhaps?Quote:
Originally Posted by usabaker