Just go back to the original bone shakers on iron rimmed wood. (View Post)

One assumes that they've heard of soldiers lives being saved when a bullet hits 'x' on their chest and went the whole hog. (View Post)

That was more a feature of 1945, I think. (View Post)

Eventually. The plan as per The Somme, etc was that there would be no-one left after the prolonged bombardment. Add in the green-ness of the attacking troops (many of them Kitchener's battalions… (View Post)

U.K. gov data from 1940 https://gov.uk/government/publications/measles-deaths-by-age-group-from-1980-to-2013-ons-data/measles-notifications-and-deaths-in-england-and-wales-1940-to-2013 (View Post)