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RE: The Lost (and Found) Battalion, who ended the Great War, by being very hard headed!
I knew about this before the movie, but was glad they did the movie ! I have a copy here, and watch it every six months or so! One thing that kind of came out in the movie but not as well as it should have, was that they sent in snipers, and Our guys Killed them, with blade sights.
The Springfield was the King of the battlefield, brand new, with the most ballistic bullet made in those times (the boat tail is still one of the best)!
It did not show the political pressures on the US Command structure to take ground, to avoid being used for replacements. It just made them out to be an ass, but the source was the allies! They thought we were incompetent too. But General Pershing ROASTED them over this!
>:(
Beautiful thing.
I know I've seen the movie, was it simply titled "The Big Red One"...or...?
I read most of mine, but they asked Pershing which army group his command was, and we had NO other army (we really were a third World agrarian power to this point). He told them it was the first army group, and not the only one, so they put a red number one on their shoulders. They were teased about the Big Red One, until they began fighting! After that, it was a compliment! On Ally (French I think) said they sent The Big Red One, because they knew that was all we would need!
:)Great story! Thanks.
War History has owned me since I was ten, ROFLOL!
And I went to Pershing Elementary....:)Nice! I love military history, myself...especially The Civil War...
The Civil War was seminal to modern warfare! A large part of modern warfare began in the Civil War. They proved the use in battle of: Ironclads with turrets, submarines, machine guns, airborne artillery observers, steam powered warships, breech loaded cannons, the miniball, battlefield Hospitals, and Morphine.
We grew up, and learned to kill more efficiently, in the (Not so) Civil war! But there were a lot of heroic efforts too!
Brave MEN all!:'(Yes, but The Crimean War also set the stage for many modern military philosophies...and field hospitals...where Florence Nightingale got her "wings."
Lots of changes happened in that timeframe. But a lot of good men bled and died to feed this beast!
:'(