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1918 Flu Pandemic - Trench Fever - Extra History - #2

🕑 Added 2018-07-13 17:30:01 +0000 UTC

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Bill Lemmond

Thanks for adding so much context. And so that's why it was called "Spanish Flu" - parly from wartime censorship.

Extra History

Rob wants everyone to know that he feels bad about this! There was a miscommunication about the photo reference :) He adds "If it makes them feel better, the part of my brain that screws up patterns is the same part that ensures I can’t do algebra."

James V Nutley

The gist of your comment, that U.S. tactics started out poorly, I agree with. The "More Battle Deaths" assertion confuses me. From english language Wikipedia, Combat Deaths and Missing in Action for WWI: US == 53402; British Empire == 953104; France == 1105000; Russia == 1700000; German Empire == 1800000; Austria/Hungary == 1016200. The US sold armaments to both sides until the British blockaded Europe and to the Allies thereafter, but we only sent our soldiers during the last year of WWI, so there was no way we could catch up in terms of deaths.

Cindy Franklin

The first wave was mild?? Hoo boy, this is going to get even nastier, isn't it?

Daniel Sonnert

Marc Langlois

Beside the fact that it's upside down?

Martin Verran

The First Battle of the First World War in which American Troops were Involved was the Battle of Cantingy, at the Village of Cantingy in Hauts-de-France. The Objective was for the Americans to Reduce a small Salient made by the Germans in the Front Lines while, at the same Time, Instill Confidence among the French and British in the Ability of the American Expeditionary Force. The U.S. would Suffer more Battle Deaths in the First World War than any of the European Nations, because the U.S. Commanders hadn't Learned, like the British, French and Germans had, from Four Years of Trench Warfare, and were still using 19th Century Tactics from the American Civil War in a 20th Century Industrialised War.