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In fall 1914, the British and French armies on the First World Wadustr’s Western Front were wrestling with a problem: unseen German riflemen were picking off any man who showed himself above the trench. Something had to be done about it – and the result was the birth of the modern sniper.
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"They wouldn't have understood", such a universal statement.
I remember reading our guys were issued Elephant guns to pierce the German armoured loopholes?
excellent video
2:53 the central figure looks like General Erich von Falkenhayn.
If memory serves, there was an article I read in the 1914 Jane's Fighting Ships (reprinted from the 1906/7 edition) which talked about the Russo-Japanese war. A European observer at the siege of Port Arthur, saw a Japanese soldier being carried to the rear having been shot through the eye. The Japanese officer with him explained that the trench had a forward outpost faced with heavy planks, one of which had a knothole which allowed the forward observer to view the enemy. The officer added that the dead soldier was the third one they'd lost to Russian snipers. It kind of sounds like The Great War introduced the telescopic sights to sniping.
McBride’s A Rifleman Went To War, is an excellent read if interested in sniping in the early years of the war.
A collaboration with Jonathan Ferguson or Ian McCollum would have been amazing in this video
It's fascinating to learn just how much of modern combat theories, tactics and weapon concepts draw their origins from this war.
@6:00 "There were also rumors of female Ottoman snipers… " * NETFLIX PRODUCES 6-PART SERIES STARRING RACHEL ZEGLER AS THE MOST DANGEROUS SNIPER OF WWI, BASED ON A TOTALLY TRUE STORY! * "… but these rumors have since been debunked." * NETFLIX: LOL TOO LATE! *
Another informative AND entertaining history documentary!
artillerymen aim at map cordinates, Machinegunners aim at a area. riflemen aim at something that moves. Snipers aim at a person. // former soldier.
Please do a video on warfare, tactics and strategies on the eastern front
Is this a reupload?
Snipers were one of the few people that were not taken as POWs because they specifically targeted officers and leaders of soldiers to cause dissent and terror.
Really makes you wonder and appreciate how severely that war must have destroyed a whole generation of young men mentally. I can’t imagine being the same person after that
16:13 Sgt York used an American M1917 rifle, nicknamed the "American Enfield". It was an entirely different rifle from the British Lee-Enfield. The M1917 was an American conversion of the British P14 rifle, originally intended to replace the Lee-Enfield, that was being manufactured in the US for Britain.
So much of modern warfare was pioneered in the Great War. It’s crazy to think there’s probably somewhere right now where a soldier is afraid to look over his trench because a sniper might be watching.
It seems to me that the video doesn't mention that Italy barely used snipers in the war, with something like between 500 and 3500 iirc carcano optics ever built
17th, 9 February 2024
Great documentary full of fascinating information.
Спасибо
That's a reupload
Are you planning to do the Philippine-American War documentary after you finish the Spanish-American War documentary a few months ago?
The pacing is like a well-tuned engine; it propels the narrative with seamless precision.🍭
Hey Great War Team, been watching for, well feels like forever, anyway I recently got into making history and alternate history videos. I was wondering if you had any advice for making historical videos on YouTube?
how did snipers in ww1 affect lebrons legacy??
Hey