{"id":107132,"date":"2020-11-11T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107132"},"modified":"2020-11-10T15:59:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T20:59:02","slug":"the-moment-the-guns-went-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107132","title":{"rendered":"The moment the guns went silent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Few recordings exist of what World War I sounded like<\/a>. There’s plenty of film, but audio recording at the time was not something easily done in the field. Delicate recording equipment of the time required scratching a wax or lacquer disc.\u00a0 The conditions at the front during the war were notoriously bad for man, mule, and machine.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, as we celebrated the centennial of the war-ending Armistice, the photo above came out from the Imperial War Museum (UK). That’s a strip of film documenting the sounds coming from sound ranging equipment. Sound ranging of the thumps when cannons and artillery were fired could be used (when combining multiple sounding locations across the front) to triangulate the locations of the firing guns.<\/p>\n

The film strip above is haunting. I can only imagine what the men in the trenches were feeling at that moment. The ceasefire had been agreed to hours earlier, but the war continued until 1100 hours. What would happen when the clock struck 11? Would both sides hold up the truce?<\/p>\n

You can see the guns firing, in large quantity I might add, right up to the final second. The clock moves to 1100. Silence across the front. It must have been deafening. Those first few moments would have been a lot of tense anxiety for the troops at the front. Someone slams a door at an inopportune time and the war could start right back up.<\/p>\n

How the battlefield sounded as World War I guns fell silent.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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