Realistic WW1 battle sounds (creeping barrage)

The video footage is from "Stosstrupp 1917" fiction film / movie (1934)
Disclaimer: No one was harmed during filming any of this.
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"One had no sanity at all because the inferno was so blasting that you had no time to think. That din, that numbing din seemed to stop one doing the things that one would normally do, no matter how well-intentioned one was." (They Shall Not Grow Old)

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[r-saint]

_It's an easier matter to describe these sounds than to endure them, because one cannot but associate every single sound of flying steel with the idea of death, and so I huddled in my hole in the ground with my hand in front of my face, imagining all the possible variants of being hit._ (Ernst Junger, "Storm of Steel")

[captainireland]

When the gunshots and the screams blur into what is essentially white noise, you can see how they we're driven insane. RIP to those who died

[awoht]

It sounds almost like rain.


But if rain were large metal cylinders dropping on you at 100km per hour

[marcineqk]

Huge respect to those who fought in these battlefields

[vs-btd]

WW1 has to be one of the most grueling events in history. By far the scariest war in my opinion. I would much rather fight in Syria than at Verdun.

[westcoast]

To my great uncle Gaston de Lobel who died at the age of 21 on the front in September 1915 🙏🇫🇷

[yuhboii]

My great great grandfather served with the french army he was an african man from senegal he joined at the age of 17 where he served at verdun he wrote a letter to his mother which i have today. It said Mother i need you the screams never stop dear god help us

Rip my grandfather bastion suvembele died at the age of 18

[paulrobinson]

There was a letter written by a French soldier to his parents in WW1 begging them not to pray for him if he got killed because he said even if he was in heaven he still wouldn't be able to forget the hell he had witnessed in the trenches.

[jaydenong]

Me: wonders why no sounds is coming out of my phone.
My grandpa with my Bluetooth headphones...

[stuffmorestuff]

I can't believe my great grandfather endured this slaughter and had the guts to charge the German lines...

[jamesbishop]

Put my headphones on, turned the volume right up and after about a minute I couldn’t take any more. It is no wonder so many that survived suffered such terrible mental scars

[coba]

I listen to this when im sad so it made me realize that my current situation is not as bad as what these poor guys are into

[r-saint]

Turn the volume to maximum. Close your eyes. Imagine hiding on the bottom of a shellhole, covering your head with your arms, screaming but not being able to hear yourself. There's a wounded soldier near you, but you don't know how to help him; he misses half of the body. There's an attack going on, a bayonet charge. A lot of soldiers are passing near you, not noticing you under layer of dirt or thinking you're already dead. Soon, they all are killed.

[zach]

It’s crazy to think that if many of us were born only 100 years ago, many of us would endure this fate worse than death. If I was born 100 years earlier, I would have been 16 when the great war began. These soldiers initially thought of war as heroic and exciting. Only to then see your friends blown apart from artillery, barely able to get a minute of sleep from all the noise, rats eating the decomposing bodies of your friends that couldn’t have been buried fully, and the fear of death approaching every second. Truly horrifying.

[kyleseageruberalles]

This is so realistic, it took me a while to realize from the description that this was a movie. But still, this was probably close to what happened.

[wojakaesthetics]

Could you imagine this, but no matter where you run, what you cover your ears with, you cannot stop this sound at maximum volume for days at a time and being told to run towards it's source

[lanthan]

Me : *takes off heaphones*
*still hears gunshots*
Oh yeah right
Im in syria

[genzen]

Never thought the sounds of real war was so much more intense than movies. You literally can’t anything other than a great rattle of distruction

[xenontv]

My grand grand uncle was there (on tue german side) he wrote one sentence: " Who was ther got killed, those who didn't got killed were wounded those who weren't wounded got insane" . I can't imagine how horriffic it was in ww1 the smell of rotten bodys an excrements, the drum fire which went on and on for days and the ear ripping Sound of artillery and guns.

[TreacherousFennec]

My great grandfather was a trench raider in Austro-Hungarian Empire against the Russians. He was sent as the aid of 4700 ottoman soldiers and sappers to aid Habsburgs against the Russian Empire which was gaining ground. He started with night raids and then gained attention of officers who added him and couple of his other friends into raiding companies which stormed the Russian trenches before the Austrian artillery even stopped. I have couple of his photos still, he carried a sack full of grenades with a shoulder strap like an improvised postman bag, probably was a sandbag. He had a metal plate on his Austrian helmet, and a scarf to cover his face for night raids. His rifle was a Kar98az, a shortened version of regular 1898 Mauser. After German Empire sent troops to Eastern Front, what was left of his group sent back to help defending gallipoli against the British and the French. At occasions, his unit was dealing with mines, explosives and sensitive ordnance since he was essentially, a sapper. After the British and French's disastrous defeat at Dardanelles, he was sent to Mesopotamian front to defend Damascus against the British, also sent to Caucasian front towards the Russian Revolution to fight against Russians (ironically). He then fought for Turkish independence against French, British, Russian, Italian and Greek invaders, mainly against Brits. He got to keep his rifle after the independence and I still have it today, along with 3 photos of his. Bit long, but I saw people sharing war stories of their ancestors, and I love reading them, thus wanted to share mine. Cheers