Spanish Bombs Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 If WBS was around, I'm sure he'd be posting this. I searched and didn't see this mentioned before, but here is a short article which includes a link to audio from October, 1918 of a British artillery unit delivering a gas-shell bombardment. I don't think I have any comment aside from the fact that I found it pretty sobering. Oh, and I'm a bit chagrined at the fact that both my kids have school today, on Veteran's Day - and that just doesn't seem right. http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2008/11/tt_the_eleventh_day_of_the_ele.html (I couldn't find a way to post a URL like the old board?) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MeatEtr Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Good find, you can actually hear the whining of the shells. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 SB to post a URL you type text you want to use as a title, then highlight it, then press the "insert link" button - the one that looks like a blue/green circle (the world?) with an infinity symbol below it - then paste the URL into the "URL" line. Can't play it here at work but am looking forward to it at home - thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhorse Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 That's quite a remarkable recording. Nice find. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 It sounds incredibly like cheesy and crummy sound effects. 4.5 and 6 inch guns and the guy still inhaled gas? Danger close artillery isn't what it used to be. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bodkin Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 I remember finding a sound recording of a bbc reporter in Holland during the Market Garden para drops. It was a really amazing bit of audio, you could hear the German flak firing nearby as the reporter described the scene. Unfortunately I can no longer locate it. It's not the Edward R Murrow one where he is in the C-47 as the troops go out the door, this reporter was on the ground. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhorse Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 It sounds incredibly like cheesy and crummy sound effects. 4.5 and 6 inch guns and the guy still inhaled gas? Danger close artillery isn't what it used to be. Those are all outgoing rounds. You can hear the adjustments being made by the fire direction officer and then the firing commands being issued by the chief of smoke. The outgoing sounds are well..the sounds shells make. Nothing cheesy or crummy..just the sounds they make. I find it amazing they were able to capture the audio, especially considering it was in a field environment in 1918. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Wilhammer Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Yeah, it was a hoax; http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/3992/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 No, it wasn't! NEWARK, OH (AP Newsliar) -- Archaeologists working in south central Ohio have found what may be the earliest audio recording ever discovered. The recording is etched into the surface of a large clay ceremonial burial pot, uncovered near the Newark earthworks, a location that was once the center of the thriving Hopewell culture. The pot has been tentatively dated to about 250 A.D. Here's more 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhorse Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Here is a transcript (to the best of my [in] ability) of what the British gunners are saying : FDO: Battery Action one seven six one “oh” left CoS: [garbled] FDO: Elevation two five degrees CoS: [garbled] two five degrees FDO: Adjust rounds one oh six two CoS: Adjust rounds one oh six two FDO: HE and charge four load and report CoS: HE charge four [garbled] Unknown: loaded FDO: Fire Four! Boom whizz Unknown: ready two FDO: Fire Two! Boom whizz CoS: One [garbled] FDO: Fire One! Boom whizz FDO: Battery four, three three degrees CoS: Battery four, three three degrees gun two FDO: Fire Three! Boom whizz FDO: Fire two! CoS: Repeat Boom FDO: Fire one! CoS: Fire one Boom whizz FDO: Fire three! CoS: Fire three Boom whizz FDO: Number three one half an inch more right… Fire Two! Boom whizz FDO: Fire one! Boom whizz 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 What I found curious is that each gun report is doubled. That is, you hear the direct blast and then immediately what I take to be an echo. The interesting thing is that the echo seems to be the louder of the two. I wonder if they were firing from behind a large, substantial building or something. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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