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World War 1 (Attentive Listening (Trench warfare (Geoscopes used to listen…
World War 1
Attentive Listening
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Trench warfare
Geoscopes used to listen to counter-tunnelling activities by the enemy. Often resulted in hand-to-hand combat.
Musicians and professional miners were brought in specifically to fulfil this task and place mines under enemy trenches.
Quotes
Julia Encke War noises on the Battlefield 'The ear challenges the eye for domination, and the ear gets ahead.'
Jean des Vignes-Rouge The War Underground 'Sight is a superfluous sense...you close your eyes to hear the better.'
Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front 'You had to be able to work out in advance where they are going to land, what the scatter will be like, how to take cover.' Also notes how young recruits cannot differentiate between sound, and instead are fixated with the large heavy artillery which is of no danger, and miss the sound of incoming quieter high pitched shrapnel shells.
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