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And I am here in my Care Of Wisdom and I plan to take over the entire Milky Way Galaxy (who doesn't?)
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But to do so
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I must first answer all your questions about the First World
FIRST WoRld WAr fiRsT WORld wAr
All right, what do we got?
we got: What were
Pioneers and how did they differ from regular infantry or engineers? One of my ancestors was in the 5th pioneers battalion in the AIF
And I was wondering what pioneers really were what were their roles
And how did they differ from regular infantry our engineers did other nations? Have a similar sort of unit?
Okay
Pioneer battalions were light infantry engineers who operated close to the front lines
Now most countries had combat engineers grouped together in Pioneer battalions
their expertise was in building and repairing and maintaining basic infrastructure for the army
Things like you know roads, railways, telegraph lines, bridges.
but close to the front they were also experts in fortifying dugouts and trenches much more so than the
You know the regular soldier who often had to improvise and as the war progressed
Those pioneers became ever more essential to the war in the war effort
during the Germans spring offensives for example while German pioneers bridged gaps on the
battlefield for the artillery to advance. The pioneers of the Entente (Britain, France and Russia)
Blew bridges or erected obstacles on the battlefield to delay the German advance
pioneers were not usually thrown into combat like the
Like the "regular soldiers" since their knowledge and their expertise made them more valuable
They would usually remain in their supporting roles. Okay. Here's one
Hi, Indy and crew! love the show! I have heard that in April 1918
German submarine was attacked by the Kraken! do you have any information on it?
Is there any other report of a sea monster
Attacking a ship in WWI? keep up the great work
This is probably surprise to many of you
according to the
"Myth" a German type *gibberish* UB-3 U-boat, the UB-85
once patrolled the North Channel
(Which is the strait but between the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean) On April 30th the UB-85 and it's commander Gunther (???)
Were surfaced to you know just take some rest, but suddenly the ship rocked and a big cracking like sea monster appeared!!!
It's sabotaged the 105 Millimiter deck cannon
and the crew fired their secondary weapon at it. The submarine was heavily damaged
So it could not submerge. This enabled the British ship Coreopsis 2 to then capture the crew without killing anyone going Gunther (???)
Allegedly claimed that the Beast had large eyes, setting a horn-y sort of skull, now
This is in fact a legend the reality is that a heater in the officers compartment
disabled and prevented the hatches from closing properly and this caused the submarine to take water and begin to sink. The commander then ordered the
ballast blown and the submarine resurfaced. the crew
Escaped the flooded interior of the U-boat and assembled on the deck of the ship. the Coreopsis then was able to capture the crew without Resistance.
since the ammunition was inside the flooded submarine
So where does this story come from? well according to Maritime Historian Dr. Amos McCartney the legend doesn't appear anywhere...
before surfacing (pun intended) on the internet in 2005
There are more tales of course about monsters and disappearing ships
like the USS Cyclops a Proteus class Collier cargo ship vanished on March 4th 1918
in the Bermuda Triangle
306 passengers and crew members disappeared without a trace and just like that they were gone
Okay another question yep
Let's see how did Austria-Hungary
Redeploy its troops after Russia left the war? Did/could they provide any soldiers for the Spring Offensive? Okay (???)
the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on March the 3rd 1918
Officially ended the fighting between the former Imperial Russian army and the Central Powers now the fighting on the southern front there had only been
Sporadic since the aftermath of the Kerensky Offensive the summer of 1917 which did give the wavering
Austro-Hungarian army a well needed resting. Now this allowed
Austrian High Command to draw its best troops away from the Eastern Front and retrained them while often only
What was really a token force manned the lines in the quiet sectors of the front.
It was in
Germany's best interest though for the Empire to focus its strength on the Italian front and threaten the Entente's forces there
although a handful of Austrian engineers and heavy artillery were sent to the Western Front in support of the German spring offensives.
And a detachment of soldiers was sent to the Ukraine as well
Oh not the Ukraine
Just Ukraine ok, that's all for today if you'd like to see our episode where the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed you can click
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