Sld1959
Ronin
Another thread made me think of this. My grandfather never really talked to my dad about WWI, and he died when I was like 3 so I never heard any stories. But he did tell my dad a few things, including how dogs and a screw saved many lives. My dad said my grandfather always had several dogs afterwards, even thru the deoression.
The guys on the front lines figured out that dogs could smell mustard gas way before it reached the lines, giving the soldiers a way to prepare in advance. So, they caught all the strays they could find, befriended them, fed them thier food, which my reading has lead me to believe only dogs would actually like, in turn they saved a lot of lives I guess.
The second was that at night they sent out hundreds of men to string wire in no man's land in the dark. Part of the job included hammering in stakes to keep it in place. The enemy would be quiet and listen for pounding. Then they would shoot blindly in that direction, wounding and killing many men. Some engineer created a screw down stake which was silent to use and saved many lives once they were mass produced.
The guys on the front lines figured out that dogs could smell mustard gas way before it reached the lines, giving the soldiers a way to prepare in advance. So, they caught all the strays they could find, befriended them, fed them thier food, which my reading has lead me to believe only dogs would actually like, in turn they saved a lot of lives I guess.
The second was that at night they sent out hundreds of men to string wire in no man's land in the dark. Part of the job included hammering in stakes to keep it in place. The enemy would be quiet and listen for pounding. Then they would shoot blindly in that direction, wounding and killing many men. Some engineer created a screw down stake which was silent to use and saved many lives once they were mass produced.
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