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11/11/2018
Updated on 12/31/2018
This being the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended major fighting in WWI, SilverMedals.net presents some “second” facts about the Great War.
Russia declared war on Austria-Hungary on July 29, a day after Austria-Hungary declared war on Russian ally Serbia.
Germany 7,142,558 (Russia had the most with 9,150,000)
Russian infantry in 1916.
Cambrai (November, 20 1917)
France 6,160,800
Aerial view of trench systems. Notice the craters all around them, created by artillery shell impacts.
7,020,000
Small arms fire (guns, machine guns, grenades)
René Fonck (France) 75 kills (Manfred von Richthofen “Red Baron” 80)
It was in this second battle where poison gas was first used — Germany used it against British Commonwealth soldiers.
René Fonck, the greatest Allied “Flying Ace” during the Great War. He was second only to the “Red Baron”.
George Lawrence Price (Canada)
When it comes to polar exploration, history is the mother of all excursion. To close out 2018, Louis Rudd became the second person to complete a solo crossing of the continent of Antarctica. In what seems a repeat of the Shackleton/Amundsen race to the pole (that was a race to the pole and not a traversal of the continent), the…read more
After the fifth installment of the James Bond movie series You Only Live Twice hit the theaters, Harry Saltzman and Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli, the producers of the lucrative franchise, had a problem. Their Bond didn’t want to be Bond anymore. After spying, killing, and sexing his way through five movies, Sean Connery was ready to go. There were several reasons for…read more
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