Welcome to some more questions and answers here on the old front line.

These are questions submitted by you, the podcast, listeners,

and each month we select some of the best questions that have been submitted via email and the Discord server to answer here and hopefully give us all fresh perspectives

and new knowledge of this vast subject of the Great War. So let's begin.

Coming up soon on the podcast is something a bit different and bringing in quite a few different things

in recent times and I think that's good to move the podcast forward and what I'm going to do

is effectively take kind of a month's worth of podcasts and focus them around a specific theme

and in this case the theme will be the war in the air,

the war above the Western Front during the Great War.

And there's going to be an introductory episode.

There'll be some interviews with some experts

and then a bit about what you can find

of the Royal Flying Corps and the RAF on the battlefields today.

And I'd quite like to do a special Q&A as well so if you've got a question that you want to ask about the Royal Flying Corps

or the Royal Air Force in the Great War send it in I'll pick the best for and they'll be answered

as part of this special month of looking at the war in the air.

So get those air war questions coming in as soon as you can.

And like I say, I'll pick the best four and that'll keep that theme of looking at one particular subject going for that month.

But let's get straight down to our questions this week,

and our first question comes from Zachary Lang in Massachusetts, USA.

He asks, I've seen many programs regarding the first day of the Battle of the Somme,

many showing the German soldiers wearing their steel helmets, Stahlhelm's.

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