[quote=@The Mage]
POST IS UP!

Albeit short

anyone like French Jokes?
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Bad joke.

Oddly enough, the French would pin the front-corners of their greatcoats back to make it easier to charge enemy trenches in the early frosty and fog-covered mornings... while screaming...

Oh, [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPFu_ZlQ6yg]and one out of every four was shooting one of these[/url].
-And they were trained to shoot and reload these while on the move, [i]very accurately[/I]. [url=http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=76137&p=696692]There are quite a few stories of sole auto-riflemen just plinking soldiers like rabbits as they streamed out from their bunkers.[/url]

The 1917 field-survey was, and still is, pretty insightful at what was going-on with the war. Cross-referencing the units in question with there whereabouts also fills-in the rest of the story.

Will have post up soon.