Men stood for hours on end in waterlogged trenches, unable to remove socks or boots. Soldiers feet would soon start to numb and the skin would turn red or blue. If untreated, the foot usually needed amputation, due to gangrene. A lot of disease in World War 1 was spread by rats. Another disease soldiers caught during World War 1 is dysentery.
Well what happens if you don’t dry your feet you have moisture for too long and then you end up getting a grows thing called trench foot. Many people back than got trench foot some in time could wipe their feet and it would go away others had to get there feet removed or cute the skin away from their foot to remove the nasty bacteria from the foot. Also many people got lice and they couldn’t get rid of it, even after washing all their clothes the lice would find a way in the seam of the clothes and lay eggs. There were million rats in the trenches many people find that gross and disgusting they did at first but then they found games to do with that rats to keep their minds off the awful time in the trenches and just to enjoy what they have right now. I chose the trenches because I believe people that risk their lives to go into something so horrible and awful am a true life saver.
They had to use their tins and duck behind the sheds in the trenches. Not only was this incredibly unhygienic and caused many diseases among the soldiers, but they were also dodging bullets. The enemy would shot them as they went to the toilet and because they were pre-occupied they could not defend themselves. The toilets were a grim place to be, cans of overflowing sewage, undetectable bullets and often the bodies of men who had died in the act. Another terrible problem was the rats.
The gas cylinders were simply placed on the front line and in front of the enemy. When the wind was deemed favourable, the cylinders were opened and gas floating with the breeze. Chlorine and phosgene gases attacked the lungs ripping the very breath out of its victims. At least a respirator provided some defense against the chlorine and phosgene gases. But mustard gas was worse.
When the atom bombs were dropped most of the cities in the radius of the blast were leveled. Many people died of radiation sickness, some people got flash burns, and some had the horrible fate of vaporizing into thin air in the blink of an eye. The atomic bombing killed millions of people. It was considered to be genocide and the bomb should have not been dropped. Then again the atomic bombs helped end the war so no more troops would have died.
The atomic bomb was a big part in World War 2, there were more deaths from a long distance and the people who did not get hit still had some sort of effect. The air warfare was introduced in World War 2, they were called Fighter Jets. They carried deadly bombs and took out numerous of enemies. The sea warfare was also introduced in World War 2. Ships called Corvettes were popular; they were mostly used for shipping ammunition from North America to Europe.
Flooding also proved ineffective because the Viet Cong had dug additional wells deep inside to prevent the tunnel complexes from becoming saturated. An even less desirable method was for volunteers from special engineer tunnel demolition teams (who became known as “tunnel rats”) to enter into the tunnels to clear them out the hard way. Most effectively, engineers used acetylene for destruction of tunnels with less than 7 feet of over-burden. Four
One of the most common uses for fluoride was in the form of rat poison. Fluoride is the main ingredient in rodenticides, insecticides, and in wood preservatives due to the fact that it inhibits all forms of life (Murphy, 2008, p. 8). Fluorine spontaneously combusts when it is exposed to the air and is a key ingredient in rocket propulsion, developed by the Germans between the great wars to help “lift off” the space shuttles (Murphy, 2008, p. 8). Major George Racey Jordan, a member of the U.S. Air force and veteran of both world wars, said in a speech delivered at the Thirtieth Women’s Patriotic Conference on National Defense in Washington, DC, February 1956, “During the war I learned how the Soviets used fluorides in the drinking water of Siberian prison camps to weaken the minds of their prisoners, to make them dull, cow like and more resigned to their slavery,” (Murphy, 2008, p. 251). The United States army’s chief of the Manhattan Project, General Leslie C. Groves, said that fluoride was essential in creating the atomic bomb (Bryson, 2004, p. 46).
Although there seemed like no way out of death camps, a few rebellions took place in some famous death camps. The method of killing the prisoners in death camps was typically poison gas. (Wikipedia, 2008) Germans use the poison gas from a chemical company called BASF. The people who were too weak to work were sent to the gas chambers to be killed. (Judaism, 2008) The gas chambers had small windows for Nazis to watch the prisoners die.
The rats crawling everywhere because the environment was not clean and unsanitary was frightening to see. Sassoon wanted to know what went through the soldiers mind before an attack occurred The hard rain hitting the floor at night and waking up to the sunlight to do everything all over again proved that they didn’t know when war was going to over. Sassoon asks the reader what they remember and it is clear that can recall everything because war can never be forgotten, the impact was just that strong. He asks if they ever thought about war occurring again. Those who have died, he asks them to look down and say they will never forget.