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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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You can't trick Everett True (October 30, 1915) (lemmy.world)

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Printed 109 years ago today in The Tacoma Times. Image cleaned up, see the original. (Lamentably, that page also has a racist caricature on it.)

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a cartoon and post it yourself!

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[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I remember watching the 1981 movie Gallipoli -- it focuses on a couple soldiers leading up to the campaign, it's pretty depressing (as WWI movies tend to be) but pretty good.

Cohen's "Military Misfortunes" has a chapter on how badly the Suvla Bay landings were handled. To be fair, amphibious landings are challenging.

Wait, I think I also read a case study on how well the final withdrawal was done. I think it was in Barton Whaley's "Stratagem". As I recall, they withdrew everyone and even all heavy equipment without the Ottoman soldiers noticing, leaving behind only one pack animal that refused to budge.