Verdun - Wastage

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

History

4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Mill on the Meuse grinds on at Verdun through the summer of 1916. The Germans go on the defensive and GEN Mangin hammers away at them.

The Battle of Verdun begins to make political casualties as well. As summer turns to fall the French begin to prepare for their long-awaited counter-offensive.

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0:00.0	Battles at Verdun exhausted our forces like an open wound.
0:07.0	Moreover, it was obvious that in any case the Enterprise had become hopeless.
0:15.0	The battlefield was a regular hell and regarded as such by the troops.
0:23.6	Feld Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, Verdun, 1916. Hello and welcome to the Battle of Verdun podcast episode 12.
1:02.0	Wastage.
1:03.8	So we've been active on the Facebook page and that is awesome.
1:10.6	Shout out to this episode go out to Jason. Facebook page and that is awesome.
1:22.5	Shoutouts to this episode go out to Jason, David, Sefer and Matthias, as well as Trita Lothringerchefeld artillery regiment noinuxexe and Sontenere de la Primaier-Germ Primaier Mondial 1914, 1918.
1:32.7	Awesome stuff, folks.
1:34.5	Love it.
1:35.5	And thank you, especially for the feedback.
1:39.2	All right.
1:40.7	On June 15th, 1916, after two days of rain, General Charles Montgain, commanding the French
1:49.3	Second Corps, launched his umpteenth attack against the German shell-hole line between Fleury
1:55.6	and Fort Suvi. Some 400 French guns opened up and pounded the German line, churning the muddy earth
2:03.6	and disinterring bodies and body parts, while adding new ones to the mix.
2:10.6	That morning of the 15th, the men attacking were from the 37th Infantry Division, commonly known as the African Division.
2:20.3	It was composed largely of colonial troops from Algeria and Morocco.
2:26.3	Tirayurs and the 37th would be the unhappy record holder for the unit that served the most tours of duty at Verdun.
2:35.3	Total of five.
2:38.3	The 37th had been one of the units rushed up to the crumbling line on the right bank on February 23rd.
2:45.1	The division was typically treated carelessly by its European French commanders.
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