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    04-28-2013, 08:42 AM
    George. replied to a thread Artillery of the Great War in The Bilge
    I imagine America would gladly profit from Germany's fighting as well, but the British blockade limited the possibilities. There is a reason why...
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    04-28-2013, 07:22 AM
    George. replied to a thread Artillery of the Great War in The Bilge
    No, off the blood of other nations' citizens, mostly. The US only entered at the very end, to make sure the side that owed it the most won.
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    04-27-2013, 08:55 AM
    George. replied to a thread Artillery of the Great War in The Bilge
    Before: After:
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    04-27-2013, 08:51 AM
    George. replied to a thread Artillery of the Great War in The Bilge
    If we do this chronologically, we would have to start with the German siege guns used to smash the Belgian forts, without which there could have been...
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    04-26-2013, 02:12 PM
    George. replied to a thread Artillery of the Great War in The Bilge
    A static front: note the light railway to bring shells and the guns mounted in a way that signals they are not too worried about a sudden enemy...
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    04-26-2013, 01:59 PM
    George. replied to a thread Artillery of the Great War in The Bilge
    Sailing the cold seas on a pilot cutter with Tilman telling stories of the Somme must make for some amazing memories...
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    04-26-2013, 10:17 AM
    George. replied to a thread Artillery of the Great War in The Bilge
    From the Wikipedia article on the 18-pounder: This is about a battle in 1917, but it could be referring to 1914. Over and over attacking...
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    04-26-2013, 09:36 AM
    George. replied to a thread Artillery of the Great War in The Bilge
    Von Moltke thought he did: 39 days' worth, exactly.
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    04-26-2013, 07:00 AM
    George. replied to a thread Artillery of the Great War in The Bilge
    We need more pictures in this thread: These guys look like they are behind a trench line. Wouldn't they be sitting ducks for enemy...
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    04-25-2013, 12:23 PM
    George. replied to a thread Artillery of the Great War in The Bilge
    Against the French 75s, the Germans had 150 and 210 mm howitzers, pulled by teams of six horses. I wonder how close they would let enemy troops get...
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    04-25-2013, 12:21 PM
    George. replied to a thread Artillery of the Great War in The Bilge
    Just looked it up. The French at the Marne had begun to use concealed 75s with aerial spotting to break up German attacks. They fired half a...
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    04-25-2013, 11:30 AM
    George. replied to a thread Artillery of the Great War in The Bilge
    I have read that one of the main reasons the French finally stopped the Germans at the Marne was that they had finally figured out how to effectively...
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    04-25-2013, 10:57 AM
    George. replied to a thread Artillery of the Great War in The Bilge
    But the 75s were not so good against entrenched troops, and at first only the Germans had lots of howitzers. A major advance was the...
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    04-25-2013, 09:00 AM
    George. started a thread Artillery of the Great War in The Bilge
    What a happy coincidence, to check the Bilge two weeks before being off to Flanders for our 20th wedding niver, and find not one but two threads...
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