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irisblue

(34,411 posts) Wed Nov 11, 2020, 04:01 PM Nov 2020

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Recording from the Imperial War Museum on 11 November

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Recording from the Imperial War Museum on 11 November (Original Post) irisblue Nov 2020 OP

Haunting Docreed2003 Nov 2020 #1

💔 irisblue Nov 2020 #2

Why would they have "bothered" firing anything, anytime that morning? 3Hotdogs Nov 2020 #3

Keeping the last bit of land from your enemies? irisblue Nov 2020 #4

Docreed2003

(17,880 posts)

1. Haunting

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 04:05 PM

Nov 2020

The birds chirping at the end really struck me

irisblue

(34,411 posts)

2. 💔

Reply to Docreed2003 (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 04:25 PM

Nov 2020

3Hotdogs

(13,560 posts)

3. Why would they have "bothered" firing anything, anytime that morning?

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 05:58 PM

Nov 2020

What part of the Western Front was this from?

irisblue

(34,411 posts)

4. Keeping the last bit of land from your enemies?

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 08:21 PM

Nov 2020

From the thread from the originating tweet...
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1042879/world-war-one-remembrance-day-recording-guns-silent-armistice-1918

snip-"The newly released audio was recorded on the American front near the River Moselle in France a minute before the Armistice at 11am on November 11, 1918. The clip reveals how gunfire and shelling on the western front continued until the very final moments of the Great War. Artillery was still active at 10.58am on the final day of the four-year conflict, which killed up to 19 million people."

more at source about how the sounds were captured.

And as to the artillery usage to the last damn minute...https://www.history.com/news/world-war-i-armistice-last-american-death

snip-"Rejecting German calls to immediately halt hostilities, Allied commander Ferdinand Foch dictated that the guns would fall silent at 11 a.m. in part to allow news of the cease-fire to be transmitted to the front lines."

more info there as well.

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