RIP+

He has my gratitude and my admiration

very brave man I bet your proud of him I would be may he rest in piece

@@ccrider3435 Thank you!

@@spokest Thank you!

Grande Herói, parabéns.

😊

Good advice.

Thanks to all the veterans!

These men are heroes and very brave . It’s a shame what the world has become it’s not what they fought for very sad

Badass 👍🏽

Ele deve ter ficado desesperado, pois nesta guerra a lama estava contaminada. Grande Herói.

@@mastomasto6197 Sim, geralmente os ferimentos em alguns campos de batalha não saravam ou davam muito trabalho para sarar por conta da lama que os contaminava...Muito triste o destino de milhares de jovens que estavam ali matando quem não conheciam e morrendo por quem também não conheciam.

Savage i can imagine him all the while screaming in amger firing back and giving them hell for his foot

Wow

I miss them.

The National Archeives KZfaq channel has lots of clips from the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

Well you caught a glimpse right

Thanks​@@brocklanders6969

I saw lots of birds in combat. This was the Middle East. I went five times. Even got to see animals occasionally in their environment. Mostly snakes and hedgehogs, scorpions, a friend of mine saw a bear in Afghanistan in his sector. I saw fish in the rivers we crossed too.

If they don't like it, they can feck off. People complaining when they are getting something for free should take a long hard look at themselves. I thought the video was fascinating, thanks very much.

I think it's excellent and really insightful. Thanks

I thought your work was great and the birds were no big deal. My dog came running out when he heard them. NICE JOB.

Amazing work matey, absolutely love it, thank you :)

Thats the name of one of my friends...

AHC regularly runs Apocalypse WWI on tv. 5 episodes. There was a another 1 or 2 episodes of a second season I think too

My wife’s grandfather served in the same area and was badly gassed which led to severe lung damage. He couldn’t do physical labor after the war so he was trained to be a bank teller (making very low wages). I think the government gave him a ridiculous pension of somewhere around 23 dollars a month. It just goes to show that they will thank you for your service but that’s about it.

@@norrissnoggs $23 a month was not an insignificant amount back then. My grandfather was considered to be making good money at $11 per week. It was supposed to be enough to live off of, taking other income and disability into consideration . It was not meant to be a reward or a way to get rich, or so anyone who ever served would never have to work again. It was considered your duty to go, in many cases it wasn't even voluntary. How much do you think men should be paid for contracting to go and fight for the government, and at what point can we just start calling them mercenaries if the whole point is to make a good profit from risking your life?

@@justforever96 if you haven't served, and dealt with the VA. Please refrain from commenting. Smart, powerful nations reward their soldiers and veterans. Guys willing to risk their lives for the freedom of weak slackers at home should be rewarded greatly. Much more than we reward the politicians and corporations who don't do the fighting

​@@MikeM-qy9zz Amen to that.

​@William Walker The whole point IS to make a profit from you risking your life, you just wont be the one making the profits.

Seriously though! When I saw the thumbnail, I thought it was a reenactment lol

Means a lot, thank you! Glad you enjoyed :)

I must agree with you 👍

You Tube is a time machine

The ones who are not killed, but just wounded or survived without injury, they GROW OLD. You know, the ones you made fun of when they paraded. The ones you had no respect for when you were younger.

We haven't evolved much, evidence being Russia and Ukraine. The reasons dont matter, the suffering is the same.

You not seen They Shall Not Grow Old? Watch the trailer for it here, it will blow your mind if you think this is well restored, I mean it is but They Shall Not Grow Old was done by Peter Jackson with almost unlimited funds and unlimited computer power.

I'm sorry for your loss I can only imagine he had a idea of what the follow years would be like and I can't imagine what that felt like to him

I agree. War is horrendous both physically and mentally. I served in the USN with quite a few fellows who had fought in Vietnam. When I was a boy my brother and I swam in an elderly neighbor's pool by invitation. He had served on the western front for the U.S. Army in WW1. It was ghastly he said. When I was 15 years old I skied at Innsbruck, Austria. An older fellow on the chairlift sitting aside me asked me where I was from. He spoke English well. I replied, "New Jersey." He chuckled and told me that he knew the state well. He was imprisoned there as a POW after capture during WW2. Unless they were SS the army let the prisoners out on day leave to assist in jobs like forestry management or similar jobs, because most of the American men were away at war. If one absconded the army was more worried about their welfare rather than being an escapee. They reckoned that he was simply homesick and lonely.

As we all sip our glass of Jaegermeister on the rocks, let us all remember that citizens have the right and a duty to stop madman dictators and tyrants from leading their country into oblivion. Since the madman in 1937 through 1945, there has never been a shortage of them and now we have the half-pint sized pile of poo known as pootin. BUT there is a shortage of enough moral righteous people in those countries that will stand up to these evil insane "leaders".

It must have been a slaughterhouse for soldiers in WWI because of the trench war where troops were required to do a full frontal charge en mass into the machine gun fire thinking enough soldiers could survive the mowing fire of multiple machine guns to overpower the enemy in their trenches. Then the use of gas by the German Army. By 1939 when Germany and Russia invaded Poland then in turn, France, Belgium and Denmark the Nazis knew that was no longer the best way to kill the enemy. It was now a mechanized war called the German word “blitzkrieg”. The problem they did not realize was it was not sustainable. The Nazis also falsely believed part of their problem were their own Jewish population and progressively the Jewish people of the nations they overpowered. Big mistake! It took millions of the Nazi soldiers to maintain the death camps. At the same time the Nazis thought because of their secret society, locking up & killing news reporters and believing their own lies, they thought no one would ever know the truth. In the end the Nazis murdered some 12 million innocent people children, women old men, all non combatants & half were Jews. So yes, WWII was easier on the common soldiers in the German Army. Especially if all you did was guard duty at a death camp. Until the Russian Army showed up. Then the Germans stripped their uniforms off and ran west to surrender to the US Army so they could be sent to the Jersey Shore. My father was a corporal camera man in the US Army Air Corp assigned to deliver photos, movie film & info to the OSS. That is my main source for this information. I survived one year in Vietnam, 1968, as a U.S. Army ammo truck driver. Those who fail to study history & truth are doomed to repeat it. Keep an eye on the trumpers.

But what about the stories of your father? Did he not do his duty and fight, and then come home to bore you with his stories? My father fought in WW2, and told me a lot about his war in North Africa, France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. He was in the Western Desert Force from 1939, that was 3 years before the Yenghi decided they had better do a bit, but only for the money.

God bless you. We must share this and tell our children.

You have not seen they shall not grow old then?

Thank you, that really means a lot!

@@spm36 Such a great film! Really got me into colourizing to begin with.

@@spm36 i did and was mildly dissapointed it was *only* british.

@@Mr_Fancypants It was commissioned by the British Imperial War Museum. It was also their films that were used. That's why all British.

i doubt the sound is real. in its time sound was on a separate medium, usually a record. i dont think that was even available at the time now i think about it. Talkies didnt start till like 1927 beautiful images tho.

@@nickbavera362 Of course the audio is fake. It might have been AI-generated, but it is not very accurate. Most places near the frontlines would have been much louder. The soldiers would have made a lot more noise than in the video, especially while marching or pulling a large howitzer. But gunshots and explosions could also be heard in the distance. Not always the same intensity of course, but there would have been very few instances where the battlefield was completely quiet, especially with daylight. Furthermore, we can hear birds chirping even when massive howitzers are firing. The shots of these would have been deafening, and the howitzer we can see in the video would not have been the only one there. There would have likely been another, not much more than 100m from it. Most birds would be frightened by the sound of these guns. Only trained birds, like carrier pigeons might dare to come closer.

Yes this does

Glad you know his story. War is a terrible thing. I was in VN and didn't think the war affected me, but later the feelings came out.

@@thomaswayneward Thank you for your service. Peace and Light in your life.

People forget. And that’s very dangerous.

And many blacks and LGBT gave everything-despite being treated as second-class citizens. The categories are hardly mutually exclusive. 🫡

@@sualehriyaz762 the authorities do, not the people.

How cursed is society these days.

Ah yes LGTV month

how old is your uncle?

@@KanadaliAzeri given that the last known ww1 veteran Harry Patch (British) died in 2009, her uncle has probably passed away quite a long time ago.

@@KanadaliAzeri 127

@@anonymousanonymous9370 in his comment he mentioned that his uncle living out peacefully in Portland. I am kind of confused about his uncle's age

@@KanadaliAzeri i think it might be a her given her name is Emily

Put a time stamp and describe which one. Maybe I saw him as well. And respect to him of course.

That’s awesome!

They always treated their prisoners well, however the one's that control the things you hear and see, cannot let the world know their plans.

@@lanthanumlanthanium6373What does this comment even mean

16th Infantry Division, or 16th Regiment in the 1st Division?

You should be very proud of him , these men deserve to be remembered , we also lost a whole generation of good men . War is horrible ! All the best from the UK

@@papabear5253 Now we have a new generation of non-men.

Machine guns, artillery more powerful then anything before it, planes were just invented, horses, infantry moving in company formations, trucks, Xray was new, Chemical warfare was used for the first time. Out of all the wars in human history, this one was a cluster. Id prefer to be a soviet soldier at Stalingrad then to fight in ww1.

When the Royal Marines and naval ratings stormed the mole at zeebrugee in 1918 from HMS Vindictive most of them were armed in cases with nothing more than a cutless or a cosh and facing german machine gun and rifle fire

Back in the early 70's I used to visit a hospital for old veterans and I remember one of them recounting watching a cavalry charge against entrenched positions. He broke down in tears.

On the eastern front cavalry were really effective still. The western front was just too concentrated to really use them, though there were some successes.

Indeed, that was the thing about WW1..... 20th century weapons with 19th century tactics. So sad.

I only found out about 7 years ago, not long before my father died, that my grandfather was a high ranking officer in WW1, mostly on the western front, but miles behind the front line, as they all were. My father asked him numerous times, as you do as a lad, about his times back then. He wouldnt speak about it. Now i know why, as all these officers, only relying on telegraphy or morse, sent alot of young and old to their deaths. Never met my grandfather, but from my mothers side, her dad, my grandad, served in the RAF in WW2

Yet another, "I totally knew someone there" bullshit comment. Based on the comments, everyone in America has a relative who was there. Impossible considering how pathetically small the American contributions to WW1 were.

@@Lorrdd seek help, go outside, give your brain a chance to appreciate yourself. You're clearly miserable

​@@Lorrdd how do you know? We're you there

@theniliu keep your cynical, rude comments to yourself.

Was he gay?

And you Hispanics wonder why you aren't liked here or wanted.

@@RaulRodriguez-bq4nj What are you talking about, you might want to go to other sites for your jollies!

@@billashby7858 the rainbow division lol

don't pay any attention to these idiots. My grandfather was also with the Rainbow Div. and was gassed twice and fought with a crushed ankle. He never talked about it except to say it was so bad. Brave men all!

1000 shells per square meter(11square feets) in Verdun, but no Americans were there.

It’s already being repeated in Ukraine! Some of the Trenches in North Eastern regions look no different!

Well. in fact we forgot it and 20 years later there we were again killing and being killed...

Dude we would drone them right out of their trench cmon...this kinda war is history

@davidca96 ... not only must we not forget, we must have the moral fiber and courage to stand up to insane leaders who will always try to take us down this path of insanity. Standing up to them is something the German people never did in WWII and is something the Russian people are also not doing here in 2022.

Chances are he's somewhere in this video, but because of the quality you probably won't find him

I wouldn't think it's likely he is in one of these videos but there is a chance

@@countercuIture No not likely, but any opportunity I have to see troops from his unit, or MOS I look closely in the hope of seeing him.

The crew had the 75 gun elevation raised by setting wheels on the rise you could have asked if they ever did that and did they have to find the range.

Read "The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman." It covers Truman and his 75mm artillery battery in World War I. Very interesting story.

stupidity is the word

What regiment was he in? My great grandfather was a Sergeant in F Company, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Division. He attacked Gesnes and was wounded on October 5 1918.

@@urbansyth1935 Co. K/362nd Inf./91st Division After taking the village the regiment was ordered to retire to its original jump off position. It did so by 4:00 a.m. Sept. 30. Of the original 3,000 men in the regiment, only 500 effectives remained. The Germans reoccupied the village.

He looked like Douglas MacArthur.

@@thomasdragosr.841 might have been him. he was in this battle, being shown in this video.

@@siggifreud812 That was not MacArthur.

Pilipino did fight with you and got kill there to

I really appreciate your kind words! Super glad you found this interesting!

@Chris Sharp ... you mention "brutal period in European history". Today we think of Europeans as cultured, sophisticated, progressive. Yet they started both World Wars and the majority of their history has been brutal wars and persecutions. They should NEVER be so arrogant as to ever lecture Americans.

An amazing job. For 13 minutes you brought them all back to life. Thank you!

Thank you! I totally agree, seeing the soldiers casually smile and talk and move around really humanizes the men behind the conflict. More like this video to come soon!

@@glimpsesintothepast wish this was advertised more - just stumbled on it, matches Peter Jackson's film

My great uncle was with the Canadians at Ypres in 1917. He got gassed as well. I met him in 1967 and his vocal chords were still scarred, 50 years after the war.

Grande herói

Думаю он будет не рад узнав что сегодня вы вооружаете людей с символикой сс, вермахта, татуировками сатаны , Гитлера и его преспешников. Зигующих и совершающих факельные шествия как фашисты. Почитающих ветеранов армии Гитлера. И всё это сегодня происходит в прибалтике и Украине. Позор таким внукам. Вы запачкали память отцов.

My granduncle, Charles Cornelius Carvin, served with the 77th Infantry Division in WW I. His basic training was at Camp Upton on Long Island NY, where he was assigned to Co. I, 305th Inf Bn. He was a PFC at the time of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. We know he survived the fighting in the Argonne Forest and suspect he was wounded at or near St. Juvin or Champignuelle based on dates shown on unit campaign maps we reviewed. He died of his wounds on November 3, 1918 (just eight days before the Armistice). PFC Carvin is buried in Plot E, Row 14 Grave 19 at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery & Memorial, along with +/- 13,999 other souls. It is the largest and most impressive American military cemetery and memorial in Europe. WW I is an amazing story of amazing men and women caught up in an amazing war.

Armistice

Which machine gun battalion? Such a tragedy.

Wait so how did he make the sound?

@@jeremyselman8908 using video editing software and adding a sound clip

How do you know they were the right sounds, what you means is they're the right sounds that fits your imagination.

@@milliemandy8641unless you think a horse walking sounds like a diesel truck id say he got the sounds about perfect and not to ones imagination😉

Thank you! Stay tuned, I have an interesting video coming up next weekend :)

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed!

Oui, mon ami, c'est superbe! Les pauvre soldaten!

OHHH HEEEE HEEEE HAAWWWWW HAWWWW!

In English, Armand says It's really realistic: the colorization, the sound effects, the frame rate, make it look like a current report

@@barryjohnson929 Thanks Barry 🥰

ton anglais est bon! bien joué!

I may sound like a jerk, but statistically the only tanks Germany ever had were like 10 copies of their ridiculous A7V and some dozens of captured British tanks. The British and French combined had at least 5,000 by the end of the war. God bless the souls of all these Veterans. And this veteran too.

RIP! My Grandpa was in the 371st US Colored Infantry Regiment 🇺🇸

Just scrolling through the comments & saw the same name as mine

The sound was added, but it was recreated to match the environment

All war is pointless.

No wasnt pointless. There were war aims. They were achieved

Thank you! Stay tuned!

Yet, they wouldn't lose their appetite while being shelled ! They eat their lunch voraciously at 11:30...!

Thank you so much!

I agree nice work keep it up, these videos didn't have sound though right? Someone put sound in after thr fact

Thank you so much!

The birdsong is the sound of hope.