Friday, November 30, 2007
RANDOM WWI BOOK POST
well, i am about 1/4 in and i must say, it is a VERY good read. very well written and he gives delightful descriptions of where he is.
and too much to transcribe, but he talks about the artilery training. 76 guns? and he is watching them and asks a french artillery man what they fear most. assuming it's the guns aimed at them. no, the french man explains it's bad shot. if it bursts to close to the gun or inside the gun. and so gibbons follows the troops and describes the whole thing and then the troops get a bad lot. the first guns shot explodes right out of the gun and wounds the 4 or 5 around it and oh yeah, LANYARD is a word used a lot. one later loses a leg. and using the same so-so lot of shot, the other guns train and fire. some not good, but not as bad, but the fodder still pulls the lanyards.
oh, while on marching for show for pershing, some german planes fly close, but all the troops do their drills. one tells gibbons, 'if we were in danger, they would have said something.'
right?
RIGHT?!?
reading about them having leave and going to a town to relax and his description of the drive is very nice. still only in training mode.
well, i am about 1/4 in and i must say, it is a VERY good read. very well written and he gives delightful descriptions of where he is.
and too much to transcribe, but he talks about the artilery training. 76 guns? and he is watching them and asks a french artillery man what they fear most. assuming it's the guns aimed at them. no, the french man explains it's bad shot. if it bursts to close to the gun or inside the gun. and so gibbons follows the troops and describes the whole thing and then the troops get a bad lot. the first guns shot explodes right out of the gun and wounds the 4 or 5 around it and oh yeah, LANYARD is a word used a lot. one later loses a leg. and using the same so-so lot of shot, the other guns train and fire. some not good, but not as bad, but the fodder still pulls the lanyards.
oh, while on marching for show for pershing, some german planes fly close, but all the troops do their drills. one tells gibbons, 'if we were in danger, they would have said something.'
right?
RIGHT?!?
reading about them having leave and going to a town to relax and his description of the drive is very nice. still only in training mode.
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Methinks you mean WW I.
76: 76mm. The French built a highly respected gun usually referred to as "The French 75". I've seen references to 76mm guns; don't know whether that's the same as a 75 by someone else's measuring system or not.
The lanyard is a cord attached to the firing mechanism. Don't want to be standing right next to the thing when it recoils, even if it doesn't blow up.
76: 76mm. The French built a highly respected gun usually referred to as "The French 75". I've seen references to 76mm guns; don't know whether that's the same as a 75 by someone else's measuring system or not.
The lanyard is a cord attached to the firing mechanism. Don't want to be standing right next to the thing when it recoils, even if it doesn't blow up.
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: 4:30 PM
ya, will fix that. lemme look in the book. ahh, swansant, kansas. 'soixante quince'. 75s. 'admirable seventy-fives' shoulda wrote it down. ya, lanyard. but remembering that poem from prairie home companion. just don't see lanyard much. all triggers and such. and i knows about recoil. seen enough war movies.
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