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Posted: 8/8/2011 1:55:13 PM EDT
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Trench Club Soldiers often made their own trench clubs for use on trench raids or in hand-to-hand combat. The goal of the raid was usually to capture enemy prisoners, who would later be interrogated for information. Many small-scale raids depended on speed and stealth, with the raiders using silent, lethal weapons for their work. Others preferred raiding weapons were grenades, pistols, and knives. This club was fashioned from the handle of an entrenching tool, modified with an eight-pointed cast-iron ring. Canadian War Museum |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 1:55:33 PM EDT
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A club, preferably with some type of nastiness sticking out of the working end.
Saw a homemade trench club once. Looked like a 1/2 sized baseball bat with nails sticking out the end. Just plain mean and ugly. But effective. Requires no maintenance or care. Works where ever you hit them. Harder to get stuck in something/somebody. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 1:57:18 PM EDT
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Quoted: Ghille suit and a OBR with some NightFotce Horus Vision reticle scope.  That's what I'm talkin' bout! suppressed of course. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 1:58:07 PM EDT
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Shovel sharpened to machete sharpness. That seems to have been a surprising favorite of many! |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:00:38 PM EDT
[#5]
I like the springy ones!
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:00:50 PM EDT
[#6]
Sharpened German E-tool in right hand, 1911 in the other, plus a sack full of grenades.
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:01:33 PM EDT
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This friggin' thing.
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:03:02 PM EDT
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I'd probably have a pair of leather sap gloves. The ability to stone cold slap a guy, and knock him senseless in one blow with your bare hands would be a plus should you find yourself sans weapons...also, the gloves would offer a bit of protection.
I'd probably want a club of some kind for one hand, and a good knife for the other...something that has a skull crusher on the end as well. CVN
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:03:07 PM EDT
[#9]
Trench shovel with sharpened edges
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:04:04 PM EDT
[#10]
Quoted:
Tomahawk and M1918 trench knife. 
most def would rock one of these! |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:08:09 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:09:57 PM EDT
[#12]
A Flamethrower
With the tank wrapped in Kevlar. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:16:56 PM EDT
[#13]
body armor |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:24:59 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Shovel sharpened to machete sharpness. This was a very common tool. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:25:35 PM EDT
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Wire cutters in one hand, Sharpened shovel in the other. All of you would get tangled in No Man's Land... Nope. We just throw you on the wire and run right over your back. That's how I roll. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:26:31 PM EDT
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1911 and a trench gun. What's wrong with doing it the Indiana Jones way and just shooting them? http://automatic7.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/indiana011.jpg That is how I'd roll as well. Bonus points for that long (psudo sword like) bayonet. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:27:53 PM EDT
[#17]
E-Tool... Sharp one (I may be one of the only folks who filed my E-Tool sharp!)
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:29:33 PM EDT
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Quoted: WW1? Fuck that. I'd say I know how to type, send my ass way back to the rear. That was a stupid war, fought by stupid generals, backed by stupid populations. But a club of some sort. Simple, works wherever you hit them, doesn't need sharpening. What he said, look at my number of posts, I can type without looking at the screen or keyboard, I'm invaluable. Otherwise I think shovels were pretty popular melee tools. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:30:21 PM EDT
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I'd opt for the the battle axe and sword combo.
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:44:08 PM EDT
[#20]
Puukko
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:45:26 PM EDT
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For Sentries, that shit weighed a ton. There was also a thick plate to reinforce the front of the helmet, that's what the tits on the side were for. It was already the heaviest damn helmet of the war too. Those guys aren't going raiding, they're just showin off. Two Chauchats and the bigass Mauser AT rifle do not a sturm make.
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:46:01 PM EDT
[#22]
Trench warfare? WonderTwin powers activate! Shape of... a honey badger. Form of...I don't give a shit. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 2:57:47 PM EDT
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A couple of Presa Canario's & a WASP injection knife in each hand
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Posted: 8/8/2011 3:01:38 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/8/2011 3:06:58 PM EDT
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My grandfather was in WWI. He said the most effective tool for killing in the trenches was his shovel. He carried a Chauchat, a 1911, a trench knife/knuckles combo, but it was the shovel that did the most damage. That was the one war, if I had to pick one, that I would not pick to fight in. The stories I have been told are just unbelievable.
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Posted: 8/8/2011 3:12:34 PM EDT
[#26]
A clearly labeled bottle of GA
Give up or I throw it at you. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 3:15:39 PM EDT
[#27]
Passchendale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJZttzblHFQ All Quiet on the Western Front - This movie was made in 1930 - may of the actors in the combat scenes were WWI Veterans, start watching at 42:00. They depict WWI combat most likely closest to reality than anyone else. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPAb_3KMcE |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 3:35:22 PM EDT
[#28]
Uzi
Bayonet on a Thompson FUBAR Rubber Chicken
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Posted: 8/8/2011 3:37:02 PM EDT
[#29]
3 or 4 Canadians who are trained to react quickly to verbal commands.
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Posted: 8/8/2011 3:41:18 PM EDT
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WW1? Fuck that. I'd say I know how to type, send my ass way back to the rear. That was a stupid war, fought by stupid generals, backed by stupid populations. But a club of some sort. Simple, works wherever you hit them, doesn't need sharpening. Concur. Become a REMF (canteen commando). If I had to have a weapon, a short sharpened works well as a blunt instrument, a cutting instrument and for bludgeoning. But you'll want a long sharpened for distance work. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 3:43:08 PM EDT
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i know how to fly. i would not be in the trenches. Probably wouldn't be in the air for long. I think he means that he can fly an airplane. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 3:45:39 PM EDT
[#32]
Shield on the left, sword on the right.
I haven't decided which sword yet. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 3:47:39 PM EDT
[#33]
Wakazashi. Tomahawks and hatchets suck compared to short swords. Much shorter cutting edge, shorter reach, nearly impossible to change the direction of the cut, etc.
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Posted: 8/8/2011 3:54:12 PM EDT
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I know WWI was atrocious.
I know they had lots of horses in WWI What I want to know is: Were they allowed to have such super cool haircuts back then? |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 3:55:24 PM EDT
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tomahawk or a mace of some kind. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 4:04:02 PM EDT
[#36]
I was waiting for that... Hard to beat a kukri in that role. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 4:10:22 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Tomahawk and M1918 trench knife. http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af328/nicCartel/closeupofstamp.jpg http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af328/nicCartel/withcasenexttoblade.jpg most def would rock one of these! I always wanted one of those. My grandfather had one, not sure what became of it. That would be my choice, hell maybe even dual wield. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 4:12:02 PM EDT
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Quoted: Pace yourself, I want to win that monkey. Quoted: WW1? Fuck that. I'd say I know how to type, send my ass way back to the rear. That was a stupid war, fought by stupid generals, backed by stupid populations. But a club of some sort. Simple, works wherever you hit them, doesn't need sharpening. What he said, look at my number of posts, I can type without looking at the screen or keyboard, I'm invaluable. Otherwise I think shovels were pretty popular melee tools. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 4:32:14 PM EDT
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A bayonet...on the end of a 4' M91. Your chance of death are less is you make that a 1917 with a 18" Either way that was a meat grinder too many have forgotten |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 4:46:40 PM EDT
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Quoted: Wakazashi. Tomahawks and hatchets suck compared to short swords. Much shorter cutting edge, shorter reach, nearly impossible to change the direction of the cut, etc. How much time per day do you spend training with a sword? In the hands of an inexperienced fighter axes and spears (bayonets) are significantly more effective... |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 4:59:46 PM EDT
[#41]
Whole bunch of these
Carried in one of these 
and a couple of these 
The hell with all that blunt and poking weapon shit. A grenade when it bounced off some ones skull would be plenty blunt enough right before detonation. So would 230 grain ball as it zipped through their wool jackets. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 5:16:47 PM EDT
[#42]
I would just put this photo on the front of a plank!
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Posted: 8/8/2011 7:04:35 PM EDT
[#43]
Element Arms has some of that old body armor in the shop - heavy as shit. |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 7:49:21 PM EDT
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Quoted:
read somewhere once that the entrenching tool, sharpened is what was used the most. soldiers were issued gut ripping bayonets. the story was if you got caught with one by the enemy you were in for a hard time. and it strikes me that bayonet might be a bit unwieldy in a trench and a sort handled shovel would be better. perhaps a war hammer would be a good weapon too.. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/War_hammer2.jpg They were issued saw tooth backed bayonets for entrenching and engineering purposes not for "gut ripping". |
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Posted: 8/8/2011 8:49:38 PM EDT
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i know how to fly. i would not be in the trenches. Probably wouldn't be in the air for long. I think he means that he can fly an airplane. Well in that case he still might get shot down. 
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Posted: 8/8/2011 9:09:31 PM EDT
[#46]
e-tool
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Posted: 8/8/2011 9:12:36 PM EDT
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Quoted:
tomahawk Tomahawk or Fireaxe |
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Posted: 8/9/2011 5:33:23 AM EDT
[#48]
For the axe guys, both German and Austrian
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Posted: 8/9/2011 5:37:10 AM EDT
[#49]
Honey badger.
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Posted: 8/9/2011 5:54:50 AM EDT
[#50]
The guys posting that they want swords make me laugh. Swords are utterly worthless when you have to crawl around in ditches, over and under barbed wire, etc. But to each his own.
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