WW1 Trench Knives & Daggers IN USE

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  @scholagladiatoria · 4 years ago · pinned

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  @brittakriep2938 · 4 years ago

  In a german weapons magazin was written: We think, most blades of trench knifes saw more saussage fat than human blood.

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  @taylorlibby7642 · 4 years ago

  I inherited one of the brass-knuckle type daggers from my grandfather (who carried it in the Pacific in WWII), who inherited it from his father (who carried it in WWI). It&apos;s an intimidating piece of equipment even just sitting there by itself.

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  @Rakadis · 4 years ago

  As a Sergeant of mine said on many years ago when confronted on the fact that he carried a knife strapped to his pistol holster. &quot;Sir, I would rather carry the weight of this piece of steel for the rest of my life and not have need for it, than need it once and not have it...&quot;

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  @douglassharp108 · 4 years ago

  I got stabbed by an insurgent with a trench knife in Baghdad ‘05, he came from behind and his knife point was stopped dead by my body armor. Just as I realized someone was behind me and before I could react my buddy put a burst in his noggin. It was one of those WW2 brit commando knives. Lots of old brit weapons found in my time in Iraq.

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  @-Zevin- · 4 years ago (edited)

  I think the main reason for the brutal type and often simple weapons was lack of training and the chaotic nature of the fights, imagine being 18 years old, pumped with adrenaline like you have never before felt in your life, shaking from it, quite literally &quot;seeing red&quot; dripping with sweat, your uniform drenched in mud and blood, &nbsp;Your ears are ringing, your heart is pounding out of your chest, you can feel each beat in your temples. There are severed limbs laying around your feet and bits of human remains on your face from the artillery barrage prior; now the infantry is charging your position with bayonets. &nbsp;Nothing in your training really prepared you for what you are now seeing, the noise of it all, your friends just moments prior turned into a red mist, the epitome of sensory overload. &nbsp;Under those circumstances you need brutal, simple to use weapons where the animal inside of you, the &quot;cave man brain&quot; whatever you want to call it, is all that is in control in that moment, fancy fencing, everything you learned in training is now for naught. &nbsp;Now you are just pummeling another poor scared shaking 19 year old German kid with your entrenching tool, all on instinct alone. &nbsp;It was a terrible war.

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  @jasonguest5820 · 4 years ago

  “Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all ... Of all the war&apos;s exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm troop leaders between narrow trench walls. There&apos;s no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one&apos;s breast like a nightmare.”<br>and<br>&quot;“These moments of nocturnal prowling leave an indelible impression. Eyes and ears are tensed to the maximum, the rustling approach of strange feet in the tall grass in an unutterably menacing thing. Your breath comes in shallow bursts; you have to force yourself to stifle any panting or wheezing. There is a little mechanical click as the safety-catch of your pistol is taken off; the sound cuts straight through your nerves. Your teeth are grinding on the fuse-pin of the hand-grenade. The encounter will be short and murderous. You tremble with two contradictory impulses: the heightened awareness of the huntsmen, and the terror of the quarry. You are a world to yourself, saturated with the appalling aura of the savage landscape.”<br>― Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel

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  @joanignasi91 · 4 years ago

  Matt Easton&apos;s innuendo powers are so strong that even actual period quotes he reads &quot;swing the butt&quot; towards innuendo.

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  @Zajuts149 · 4 years ago

  I read somewhere that the reason they were called &quot;bombers&quot;, was that when the hand grenade was reintroduced into the British Army, the Grenadier Guards didn&apos;t want anyone else being called &quot;grenadiers&quot;, so they became &quot;bombers&quot;.

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  @blackbadger4419 · 4 years ago

  I don&apos;t know about everyone else, but I <b>love</b> these deep-dives into 18th/19th/20th century weapons and warfare! This is something no other channel I follow does, especially not to this level of research and articulateness (...is that a word?)!

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  @brittakriep2938 · 4 years ago

  I am german, Britta is my girlfriend. The german trench knifes can be divided in two types. Some trench knifes are clearly descendants of german bayonnets, other ones are clearly descendants of a german hunting knife ,Nicker&apos;. In southern Germany ( Bayern, Württemberg, Baden) and Austria this knifes had been EDC knifes, still today the currently produced ,Lederhosen&apos; have a pocket for the ,Nicker&apos; ( but today the weapons laws are a problem) . In 1980s you sometimes could see elderly men carrying such knifes with modern cloth.

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  @mistahanansi2264 · 4 years ago

  <b>*Me slowly putting on sunglasses while holding a trench knife*</b><br><br>“Thug Knife~”

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