Trench warfare

Family, Love, and War The photograph “Wait For Me Daddy” was taken by Claude P. Dettloff on October 1, 1940 in Westminster, Canada. The photo was taken around the time of World War 2 where many men were sent to fight in the war leaving behind their grieving families. Most war photos come off as sad or violent to most people but this particular photo gave me the feeling of happiness more than anything, showing the love between a father and his child instead. It is a black and white photograph…

Hello, I am Jeremy Romondo and here is the story of my death. The date is January 7th, 1945. I am fighting the genocidal maniacs also known as the Nazis. We were fighting outside of the small town of Rudesheim when we saw a monstrous Sherman Tank on our right flank just over a small hedge of bushes. My battalion leaped under the cover of the foliage to stay out of the vision of the destructive vehicle. We stayed until we knew for sure the tank was clear of our location. My soldiers and I camped…

In the first letter a man named Dick is writing home to his mother explaining to her what has happened in about the last week. He explains his time waiting in the trenches for the artillery to commence on the Germans. He then explains that when they push forward that they are met with machine guns firing at them. Some get hit with shrapnel but that was the least of their worries. He says how it was terribly awkward for him since he was untouched when the mere boys serving with him had it much…

When soldiers employed these professional techniques they still battled the trench environment to no avail. Examining the men’s responses to these methods conveys their unsuitability. Private R. Read of the London Regiment stated that his gumboots regularly flooded. This was because the mud was ‘so tenacious that even gum boots are no use.’ Certain trenches were so muddy that boots were completely sucked into the thick slush. Lieutenant James Butlin of the Dorsetshire Regiment remembered ‘when…

World War I was one of Canada’s first chances to prove that Canada was ready to be set onto the world stage. One of Canada’s proudest moments was no doubt the Battle of Vimy Ridge. In that battle, the Canadian Corps successfully captured a strategic hill overlooking a large plot of land over France (Newman 117). This battle was unique as it implemented many solutions in an effort to overcome the power of trenches, and that both British and French troops had both tried to take the ridge with…

The novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front” written by Erich Maria Remarque, follows the story of a young German soldier named Paul, who is fighting on the western front , along with his friends. A the story progresses, it unveils the many horrors that were experienced or witnessed during the war, and the long term effects it has. “Life is simply is one continual watch against the menace of death;-it has transformed us into unthinking animals in order to give us the weapon of instinct.” Remarque…

By 9:00 am the 36th were holding the Schwaben Redoubt and the surrounding front but if the attack was to continue reinforcements would be needed. Thirty minutes before hand, Major General Nugent asked the headquarters of 107th Brigade to advance, currently unaware of the increasing deterioration of the 32th Division’s advance to their left flank. At 9:15 am Nugent received instructions to halt the 107th Brigade’s advance but with communication lines down, it was too late and the 107th Brigade…

Words of Helmut Walz, a german soldier: “On the day when I was wounded, that was the 17th October 1942, we went towards the red barricades. I think it was a metallurgical factory, and behind it was a gun factory. And what else was there? There was also - what do you call it - a steelworks? Yeah, that’s the Red October steelworks. And we were outside. That’s where the rubble field was. You had bomb craters and grenade craters and nothing else. So we fought our way to the factory yard of the red…

James Phillip Fleming is a medal of honor winner. He was born on March 12, 1943 in Sedalia Missouri. He was a pilot in the Vietnam war. He was awarded the medal of honor for rescuing a six man MACV-SOG recon team stranded between heavily defended enemy positions near Đức Cơ, Vietnam In 1968, he was an aircraft commander of a UH-1F transport helicopter assigned to the 20th Special Operations Squadron at East Airfield in the Republic of Vietnam. On November 26 a six man special forces army team…

When I first heard about the upcoming war I was excited and ready to enlist as you remember. It’s all different now. I’m in the front line of the trenches. I have seen many of my friends and acquaintances drop dead next to me or running across no man’s land. The German’s are ruthless, some men have been scorched to death because of the German invention, flamethrowers. I can’t sleep. Not because of shell shock, like most of the other men, but because the general is always ordering me and two…