The WWI Trenches, Where So Many Fought and Died
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Original WWI Trenches in Belgium. It's amazing history
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I believe the item you did not know what it is was used as a water pump to get rid of rain and ground water in the trenches. Very well done thanks for showing us.
A sump pump. ✌🏼😎
Indeed
I feel like WW1 gets overshadowed by WWII a lot. This is really interesting stuff.
I agree. In many situations I feel it was more barbaric. In ww2 man progressed enough to kill each other quicker.
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Ever heard of the Eastern Front?
Chris you explore some of the most interesting places. You crawl through muddy and slimy places. Your travel partner whom I assume is your girlfriend or wife that we occasionally hear or see is one really tough lady to follow you through the muddy tunnels. As for this location, I’m glad the gentleman who owns it decided to keep as a museum. We need constant reminders of the hell of war in hopes to maintain peace. Another great video.
German here, 80s kid. We used to play in the woods with bomb craters, or bunkers. There are plenty remains from the wars around, a lots of duds in the ground. every german witness a bomb disposal at least once in his lifetime, i saw plenty of them. They dropped 1.4 million bombs and around 5-20% didnt explode. They dispose around 5000 bombs in 2024 and 5000 the next year and many years to come.
World War I...the war to end all wars. Such an interesting yer solemn tour. Thanks for bringing this to us, Chris
the war that started the second world war.
Thanks for showing us these historic places in Belgium, Chris!
My mom was a Rosie Riveter during the last 9 months of WW2 in Canoga Park, CA. She was one of hundreds of thousands of 16 year old girls that said they were 18 in order to help in the War effort. Momma spoke little of that time but when she did her eyes, face lit up with pride, honor and of course she would get emotional about it and get teary eyed. RIP Momma
March 1928 - August 2023.
Where in Canoga Park?
Wrong war...🙄
What an amazing place! It's hard to grasp that soldiers not only fought in those trenches, but ate, rested, wrote letters, slept and did their daily ablutions there too. My Grandfather was on the Somme in July 1916 at age just 17. He survived, I don't know how, but he did. RIP to all those who didn't come home.
Both of my Grandfathers were 'over there' in that quagmire. I'm lucky to be here...
@robertstallard7836how do you know they were British?
The Battle of Ypres was 1 of the major battles of WWl fought by the Canadians, we learned about it in school. Thanks for bringing the story to RUclips. Great job.
Truly a moving video, Chris. I bet it was a deep felt experience for you. Let there be peace on Earth.🙏🙏☮️☮️❤️
The object at 6:09 is a water pump.
That was so incredible thanks so much. You are amazing I love your channel on you tube
Looks like a water pump. My great grandfather went over in 1915-1919 was gassed at the Somme. Sent him back to the front after he healed up. Died in 1923 from the affects of the gas.
Mustard gas?
@@blakbansheethat I'm not to sure. It could've been chlorine. Mom has his military record & I haven't read it.
Wow that's wild. Yeah I've read a little about the chemicals that were used
@@MobileInstinct Mom still has the postcards he would send to Grandma at Xmas. They're pretty cool. He was in the Princess Patricia's Canadian light infantry division.
@@warrenstevens4441 my grandfather was gassed. Luckily he was sent home a disabled vet. The Germans used like four different gasses. One gave you blisters on your skin as well as your lungs the victim would actually drown.
We have so much history in Belgium! 🇧🇪 Thanks for sharing this on youtube.
I did a stealthcamp earlier this year in the Ypres area. It is a very mesmerizing location
Man when you guys have kids they are going to be the smartest kids on the block.. The story time is going to be out of this world ..
That big round machine thing in trench was a water pump. .control the flooding in rainy season.
This was very interesting. Thank you Chris for bring us this history lesson.
This place was awesome to see. My grandfather was in WW1 and WW2. I really don’t know much about WW1, so I found this very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you, Chris. One cannot begin to imagine the horrors that took place in that locale, and that being just one of so many. No war is a walk in the park, but that particular war was especially devastating. Your video certainly brought that home, along with your descriptions. Again, many thanks for you and your devotion to history.
Hey bro you should do a story on how they took a TIME OUT in the war. To join together and killing the wolves. All the artillery fire had scared all the game away. Wolves would come in the trenches at night And drag off the wounded. CRAZY STORY
HOLY SHIT SERIOUSLY?
That happened on the eastern front in the Galicia campaign
Never heard of that. But it makes sense 🤔🤔
It's good to hear and see what you do. Thanks Chris
Can you please make a bonus video on a more extensive tour of the museum. I shared this video with my parents, they absolutely loved it, but theuy want to see more of the museum. Please and thank you 🙏
Incredible!! Thanks for sharing this.
Great find, and eerie...WW1 was complete insanity, miles of trenches, men charging straight into machine guns, mustard gas, and unreal living conditions with rats and mud. Battle of Somme, the British lost 57 thousand men in one day, 420 thousand in total by the battle's end... Totally brutal, and courageous...
Farmers today, over 100 years later, find munitions that need to be handled by professional. Experts suggest it could take centuries for them to all be discovered. My great grandad was in France as an American Dough Boy. Severely wounded twice, St. Mihiel and then Meuse-Argonne. Earned himself a Silver Star. Unfathomable carnage.
Thank you so much Chris! This was an eye-opening, amazing watch.
The Seattle Boeing Air Museum has a very interesting exhibit of recreated trenches, the sounds, and original aircraft. The kids in the trenches had never been exposed to the violence they would experience, no movies to be seen of it...People have such a hard time dealing with PTSD now, can you imagine coming home to the people at home who have absolutely zero clue what you've been through.
Yes
My daddy's father fought in ww1 in France. US side
Respect to the famer who left in place all those trenches for posterity. Lest we forget.
6.04 is a pump I believe to pump water out of the trenches when they were flooding due to bad weather. What a horrible existence it must have been to be fighting in those trenches. Lest we forget.
Thanks for the upload. Throughly enjoyed the content.
To think that World War One was triggered by an assassination which caused countries to align with each other and pick sides.
I’m sure there was more to it but a generation of humans paid in blood for it and nothing was learned from the incident.
Having served in the military I was stationed twice in Southern Italy. Once in the mid 80’s and early 90’s there are still reminders of World War 2 in the country side.
I’ll never forget the day in 85 a buddy and I was walking down a random street in Catania on the weekend and found a shop full of Moto Guzzi motorcycles. We walked into this hole in the wall shop and was checking out the bikes and this ole man tried talking to us about buying a bike. He didn’t speak a lick of English except a couple explicit words. After explaining to him we were just looking and we were American he directed us to the back of his shop where he opened a door to a back shop. Before us was twenty three rolling Harley Davidson military motorcycles that he collected during and after the invasion of Sicily. He had a collection of random HD parts too. Simply amazing. I took 110 pictures of the collection. He also had German BMW motorcycles from that era which blew us away. The old man had a goldmine but didn’t want to part with any of it. Needless to say we walked out of that place with a smile ear to ear. We talked about that place the rest of our deployment and a couple times during our home port rotation. Life is full of amazing experiences and history. You just have to get out and explore.
I always enjoy your videos, but this one is one of my favorites! Thanks for the video bud!
Awesome video as well as the history Chris.
Great video. Amazing all of these war artifacts were saved. Very cool.
6:05 A trench pump to remove water
WW1 will never leave my mind, my grandfather would never speak of it. I didn't understand at the time for I wasn't even seven yet. I am 61 now and have followed what my mom has told me over the years and from photos that I now obtain of him and his brother whom I never got to meet. I followed my grandfather in a way, he laid land lines for the trench communications that's really about all I know, I won't go into detail. So I became a communications officer and instructor, it's fun to me. I would love to get to Europe and see all the sights left from those times.
What a terrible waste of human life war can be. Trench warfare was absolutely miserable. all quiet on the western front is a must read for people who are interested in this time
Absolutely amazing Chris thank you for taking us along
So much for your shoes lol what an amazing walk through history of men fighting for freedom 🙏🏼🙏🏼 . Thank you Chris ❤
It was so engaging when I checked how long the video was it was almost over
Thanks for sharing 🙏😊
Growing up here in NZ in the 60s down the road from us were 2 return veterans from the WW1 the old man used to go down and have a beer with them I'd sit and listen to them say how one of them lost his foot in a mortar strike and about the time one of their mates was next to one of them in a trench when just in an instant he was gone blown to bits after a direct hit from a mortar it was an eye opener listening to their stories.
Wow!
Amazing! Loved the video
That was great. Thanks Chris...God Bless
The WW1 museum in Kansas City is awesome also.
The surface trenches are just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, of the earthworks. Many of these trenchworks had expansive underground works to support the logistics of ant section of trenches. These underground tunnels, support works. Barracks, etc., often went down 100 feet or more. There were also "sapping" tunnels to place explosives near enemy lines.
CHRIS, THIS WAS GREAT AND VERY INTERESTING AND VERY PROOF OF THE HISTORY OF WHAT WENT ON AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE IN WORLD WAR 1. THAT MUSEUM WAS
AMAZING AND THE PICTURES. GOOD JOB. MANY LIVES WERE LOST - WAR IS CRUEL.
Wow!!! Amazing that the owner had the where-with-all to preserve this area.
Awesome video Chris!
Thank you Chris, I have been to France and Germany, also London and you are 100% correct. There is still a lot of WWI and WWII scars around, not just the famous places like the beaches of Normandy which is very humbling to visit but there are scars in the everyday places, buildings damage by bullets an artillary still exist, bunkers scattered all over Germany etc... The History there is never ending, you should do a video about the Stolpersteine - stumbling stones placed all over Europe, they are shiny bronze plaques that are embedded securely into the ground to commemorate the victims of the Nazi regime in more than 1,100 locations in 17 European countries. The plaque includes the victim’s name, date of birth, deportation date and death date, if known. They serve as a constant reminder of the many valuable lives lost tragically during the Holocaust. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Chris. This is a great video. I have followed you for years and I am never dissappointed with your work. It always amazes me that mankind has survived as long as it has considering man's capacity for such deep violence.
Great video. I love old history videos like these.
Chris, if you ever find yourself on the west coast of Denmark, there's a very nice museum in Thyborøn, the Sea War. Museum. It mainly focuses on the Battle of Jutland during World War 1, a rather large naval battle.
I love world fighting history thank you
Great slice of history.
Crazy thing is Ukraine are using trenches like these to fight the war with Russia. Even today trench warfare still exists in modern day wars. 8:30 Cute little frog and bat :)
Imagine getting the order to leap out of these trenches and run toward machine gun fire!
That thing you came upon at 6:07 I believe was a pump
to pump out water when the trenches got flooded
It is hard to watch this thinking of the hell that the men in those trenches went through, the sheer brutality. And the museum segment was great, to actually be able to touch the pieces, and touch history.
Summer's pretty much over now back in the U.S. Great video!
Thank you, Chris for an extremely interesting and informative display of the World War I trenches. My father served in WWI and has told me quite a bit, but I had no real inkling of just how dismal and disheartening it could feel to actually be in the trenches and have enemy fire coming at you. God Bless and stay safe.
Thank you , my grandmother lost her oldest son in ww2 😢
It’s about WW1, not WW2.
Great video
I can't wait to watch this one
Visited this area back in '88 with my then wife and my son of 2. We drove up from Brittany. Historians in English use the French name "Ypres" even though this is a Flemish speaking region and so it is called Ieper (sounds like Yepper, rhymes with Pepper) The Belgian officers spoke French which created resentment between the average soldier and the officer corps. While in Ieper, a gentleman asked me " Is het stadthuis open? I just answered " I dunno."And in a camping area a young chap asks me:"Is het water koud". I answered " Yes it is".Both of my grandfathers fought in this war but one was wounded in Passchedaele. Both were born in England in the late 1890s but came to Canada in early 1900s. With a war raging in the Ukraine, these war mongers could well be still the death of us all. God save us all. Merci.
Thank you.😊
Great stuff
Interesting... My grandpa fought in WWI
My left ear enjoyed this
@6:14 i think thats a hand turned water pump. They always needed to clear the trenches of water accumulation.
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That was interesting. And dr pepper is the best soda.
Chris, thank you for keeping history alive& teaching a new generation.That first photo in the museum reminds me of the book Johnny got his gun, by Dalton Trumbo. If any one here has read it they will know what i meant. as always stay safe! Looking forward to the next one
The movie that was used in the video from Metallica, "One"
Great video
good on you for keeping the photos in the last edit. people need to be a little desensitised
that was part of pump to get water out
Wow! I would love to see it for myself. Thanks for showing us!
Wow! Incredible that there is trench from WWI. Good for the owner to preserve a part of history.
We don’t often get to hear you narrate over the video, I think it’s a great addition adding more history and facts about the places
That place is really cool. I went there last year and it's gotta be one of the best WW1 sites out there.
Great vid!
I visited sanctuary wood in 1985 with my school
Hasn't changed much , fantastic place to visit
Nice job on the video
Trench warfare really started in the American Civil War but they certainly perfected it in WW 1
No.
It began on September 1914.
The war you are talking about wasn’t fought in trenches and it also wouldn’t have made an impact on European warfare.
Just look it up. It’s WW1.
I live in Virginia and during the siege of Petersburg they definitely used trench warfare
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Oh wow you were alive when that happened?
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There is a difference between trenches in a war and trench warfare.
The Seven years war, Napoleonic wars, the Crimean war or even colonial wars like the Maji-Maji uprising or Hehe uprising in German East Africa also had trenches so the troops and observers in the back were shielded but trench warfare was introduced in 1914 at the start of WW1. Troops were actively attacking from the trenches and were also taking enemy trenches back and forth. And the trench network reached from the North Sea all the way down to Switzerland.
I can't imagine what it was like for the farmer when he returned.
Great video, especially outside of America. Those trees can definitely be original, and can survive under the right conditions, and those are apparently the right conditions. If they don't fall onto the earth, where moisture and insect will devour the wood quicker, they van reman dry. Or at least dry out once gotten wet. So yes it is possible. Besides who would take on a 100 years hoax on the slight chance that Mobile Instinct will come by in 2024 and do a video on that trees authenticity.
both of my Grandfathers fought in WW1 American Allied forces. amazing I am here.
I've been to that museum. The death and destruction are real. That object that you said, what is this, was a gas pump for poisoning. More please 🙏
Belgium is still full of trenches, back in the 70s my friends and I would go out in the forests near Brussels where we explore ww1 trenches. After some local kids found old live munitions, we were told to stop exploring the trenches....
Very interesting and enjoyable video 🐻🐵😊👍
Dan Carlin has an amazing podcast about World War I.
Wow amazing video
Well done !
Those poor young soldiers. 😢
No Tunnel for me...
My grandfather was born in 1896, and came home a disabled veteran such a waste of lives. Fun fact European militarys observed how the union fought the civil war, and replicated in WW 1, but on a huge scale.
The 🇺🇸 Civil War ended in May 1865, and WWI began in July 1914, 49 years later.
There was no trench warfare in the Civil War.
The type of environment in Belgium and France was completely different from that of where the majority of big battles occurred in the US.
In the 50 years between the end of the Civil War and the start of WWI, Britain and France were involved in quite a few wars with various countries around the world. I do not believe the tactics used in the Civil War had much influence on the planning and carrying out of many of the early WWI battles.
@@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe there was trench warfare, and digging underground mines. Grant used trench warfare in Vicksburg and the final siege's of the war.
@@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe also mobile hospitals, and the ambulance service was first used in the civil war. Ironclads, revolving turret, submarine, and the first type of machine gun, but was rarely used. They studied Grant's tactics, he actually was a modern general.
That is absolutely untrue.
How do you guys come up with stuff like that?
European military generals couldn’t car less about the American civil war. They were the most experienced generals of the most powerful armies, the world has ever seen.
@@Tobi-ln9xr you are pathetic you even like your own comment. pick up a history book sometime. The facts I stated are in them.
Watching Chriss walking on the trenches I remember the great documentary from Peter Jackson “they shall not grow old”…. Indeed was a horrible war for humanity. Sad that we (humans) repeat the same mistakes again and again…🙏…thanks for sharing history buddy.
Were the big round impressions in the ground from artillery detonations or did they have a function?
Fun fact: Canada's savagery during WW1 towards Germany is the primary reason for the Geneva Convention.
No it wasn’t.
Germany‘s introduction of chemical and biological warfare and its brutal occupation of Belgium were the reasons for the Geneva conventions.
Are you also planning on going to the Somme, Verdun or Paschendaele?
It would be also great to see you visiting the Waterloo battlefield in which Prussian and British forces defeated Napoleon.
Verdun's Fort Douaumont is exactly thix guy's kind of jam. Slimy, dark, and really old on the inside.
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Yeah that’s true. But I am sure that Verdun, Somme and Pachendaele also have a few of those kinds of fortresses. Another suggestion would be the Hürtgen forest of WW2 in Germany since a lot of bunkers and fortifications are still in their original state there.
It’s an honor to have you here, Bismarck… or Schlieffen…
@@Tobi-ln9xrI don't know which German I am lol. I suppose both.
i have been there about 2 years ago it was really a kind of wow momenth