THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

Post by Niner » Sat Aug 18, 2018 9:32 pm

The Yanks are there and more are coming.

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Post by Niner » Mon Aug 20, 2018 7:02 pm

Gilding the Lilly. Braxton Bragg was a Civil War general..for the South. However, when "Camp Bragg" was opened to become what is possible the largest "Fort" in the US now days with an estimated 50,000 troops stationed there, the newspaper only mentions his earlier more heroic service. Bragg probably did better service for the Union as a General, come to think of it. He was awful at high command.

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Post by Niner » Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:09 am

Divisions don't seem so big or important when they are listed like lottery ticket numbers.

And each Division represented thousands of men of various numbers depending on the Division.
In Maneuver and Firepower, Wilson states that Chief of Staff Major General Hugh L. Scott originally leaned toward a smaller square division of about 13,000 men to facilitate mobility and the exchange of men on the line. Following British and French recommendations, a subsequent study conducted at the War College led to a division of nearly 19,000 men (including more than 10,000 infantrymen) that resembled the French square division, enlarging the regiments by reducing their number from nine to four, and slashing the amount of cavalry significantly. The Allies felt that cavalry had little utility in trench warfare, while horses and fodder would take up too much valuable shipping space. General John J. Pershing and Colonel Chauncey Baker later altered the underlying assumptions of division organization: instead of facilitating the movement in and out of the trenches, the division should be organized and sized to fight prolonged battles. They felt that the Allies would have increased the size of their divisions had they the luxury of abundant manpower. An infantry company was restored to each battalion, bringing the total to four in each, while augmentations to machine gun assets brought the U.S. Army square division to more than 27,000 men.
General John J. Pershing, fixed the division at 979 officers, 27,082 men (about 40,000 all told, including support personnel......Pershing created this division—which was more than twice the size of its European counterpart—to “achieve a capacity for sustained battle which would ensure that American divisions would not falter short of their objectives as British and French divisions so often had done.” A division with fewer but larger regiments would facilitate a more reasonable span of control and battle momentum. Similar to — albeit larger than — early European “square” designs, the American square division consisted of two infantry brigades of two regiments each, one field artillery brigade (two 75-mm regiments, one 155-mm regiment), an engineer regiment, a machine-gun battalion, a signal battalion, and division supply, and sanitary trains (see Figure 2.1). Each infantry regiment had a strength of 112 officers and 3,720 men formed into three battalions and one machine-gun company. Each battalion consisted of four companies of six officers and 250 men each.
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Post by Niner » Wed Aug 22, 2018 6:22 pm

Reported British casualties in the previous week. Wonder how many of the wounded or missing are actually missing...as in blown to pieces or buried in mud or lost in no mans land.

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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

Post by DuncaninFrance » Thu Aug 23, 2018 2:44 am

This is a good article re Great War casualties which may well give you an answer Robert.

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Post by Niner » Sat Aug 25, 2018 3:16 pm

They needed more radium watches. Little did they know radium could be a health hazard. Particularly to the women painting the dials.

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Post by Niner » Sun Aug 26, 2018 5:12 pm

Wilson, sends troops to protect the trans Siberian railroad in concert with the Japanese. The Japs claim to be helping to keep released Axis prisoners and various revolutionary factions from getting their hands on large amounts of war supplies stored on the railroad line at various points. Japan also has some interest in getting a foothold on the Pacific Asia continent....which they don't admit to nor believably deny. Meanwhile Americans are landing at Archangel and Vladivostok on a mission of railroad and war supply protection as well as to help the new Czecho Slovak state and also confront various rebel groups as the Russian Revolution grinds on. Meanwhile the Bolsheviks at Moscow, that will eventually come out on top, are suspect of both US and Japanese motives.

The 31st US Infantry Regiment landed in Vladivostok from the Philippines a hundred years ago this week. The Regiment assumed the Polar Bear as their mission emblem and it became the the Regimental symbol. Niner Delta and I both know something about this Regiment in later years.

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Post by Niner » Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:18 am

When Congress runs out of issues it comes up with a fix something that doesn't need fixing idea just to have something to posture over and use as a re-election tool among at least one segment of the voting population. It's a good thing the War ended before the 1919 date arrived or there would have been a shortage of booze to celebrate with. However, when the Congress fixes on a noble idea they don't easily let it go and in January of 1920 they did nail that law down for 13 years and thus create Organized Crime along with bathtub gin. The war, which would have been a good excuse in 1918, was not needed.

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Post by Niner » Wed Aug 29, 2018 8:14 pm

Draft Board pay raise. Well... guess it would be a raise depending on how many people were signed up on a board members board, wouldn't it? A body count thing. I wonder if they could keep the left overs from one month to the next and count them twice or more times in the future. Would 4 f's linger in the counting or only the fit for service boys add up as income producing?

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Post by Niner » Fri Aug 31, 2018 7:13 pm

Goodwin's was a paper in Salt Lake City, Utah. It prided itself on presenting one editorial after the other about whatever was happening in the world. No news was left uninterpreted....for the thinking people, of course. It was the Cable News of it's day.

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