Recording from the Imperial War Museum on 11 November

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Link to tweet

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[Docreed2003]

1. Haunting

The birds chirping at the end really struck me

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2. 💔

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3. Why would they have "bothered" firing anything, anytime that morning?

What part of the Western Front was this from?

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4. Keeping the last bit of land from your enemies?

From the thread from the originating tweet...
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1042879/world-war-one-remembrance-day-recording-guns-silent-armistice-1918

snip-"The newly released audio was recorded on the American front near the River Moselle in France a minute before the Armistice at 11am on November 11, 1918. The clip reveals how gunfire and shelling on the western front continued until the very final moments of the Great War. Artillery was still active at 10.58am on the final day of the four-year conflict, which killed up to 19 million people."

more at source about how the sounds were captured.


And as to the artillery usage to the last damn minute...https://www.history.com/news/world-war-i-armistice-last-american-death

snip-"Rejecting German calls to immediately halt hostilities, Allied commander Ferdinand Foch dictated that the guns would fall silent at 11 a.m. in part to allow news of the cease-fire to be transmitted to the front lines."

more info there as well.