The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Battle of Vimy Ridge Edition)

Battle of Vimy Ridge -- a painting by Richard JackGeneral Ludwig von Falkenhausen presents "The Week of Suffering" (circa April 2-9, 1917) –>slide 2
Artillery relentless
I'd guess about a million shells
Somehow can target our artillery, even though they're hidden behind ridge
We ran out of aspirin, earplugs.
Allied General Arthur Currie presents "Better Creeping" (circa April 9, 1917) –>slide 4
first wave attacks behind creeping barrage
continuous line of shells
improve on what we did at the Somme.
Corporal Gus Sivertz (2nd Canadian Mounted ...
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