Welcome to the old shadow time of the book, today for all readers and friends to share this group of photos, is from the First World War somme battle of the old photos. Through this set of old photographs, we can look back at the images that have survived from this period of history. In June 1916, the Anglo-French army broke out with the German army in order to break through the Somme, and the German army used 67 divisions in the battle, and the British and French used 86 divisions, and the two sides fought a fierce battle on the Somme.
In this battle, germany, Britain and France suffered more than 1.3 million casualties, which is also known as the "Hell of the Somme", in this battle of the meat grinder, both sides were sacrificed new weapons, including various poison gas bombs of the German Empire, British tanks, Maxim machine guns and other weapons. Next, let's look back at the tragic scene of the Battle of the Somme from this photo.
The photograph was taken during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, when British soldiers in the trenches used trench warfare extensively in the battlefields of World War I, so that the battle situation always maintained a positional struggle. Unlike the heavenly maple that may be able to change the outcome of the war in a battle in World War II, the battle lasted a long time, and even if one side lost a battle, it could also retreat in time to rebuild the defense line, so that during the First World War, a number of battles with heavy casualties broke out, such as the Battle of Verdun, the Battle of the Somme and other battles, which were hundreds of thousands of casualties.
Photograph taken during the Battle of the Somme in World War I in 1916, on the first day of the battle, the British advanced just 3 miles at the cost of more than 55,000 casualties, which is known as the bloodiest day in British war history. At this time, the British army still maintained a dense charge, and the German-equipped Maxim machine gun exploded with great power in the battle, killing and wounding more than 50,000 British troops in one day, setting a record in the history of war.
The photograph was taken during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, when the British took the lead in air combat and then tank warfare in order to break the stalemate, but were never able to break through the german third defensive position.
Photographed during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, the british troops are charging, and it is this intensive charge that becomes the ghost of the German army under fire.
The photo was taken during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, where the Germans also used a large number of poison gas warfare, in which thousands of poison gas bombs were put into use, giving great damage to the Anglo-French forces, and a large number of Anglo-French soldiers were directly blinded.