The second act is always the best!
11/11/2018
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)
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