The battle of Verdun was for all the medical corps a fierce experiment. During the first four months of the battle of Verdun, 33 doctors were killed, 13 disappeared and 86 were wounded. Aerial combat over the Verdun battlefield can be considered the first real air battle in history, since it opposed two fleets of combat aircraft fighting. A thousand of medical officers died during the First World War. The night before, German officers and enlisted men readied their weapons and stared with sullen tension at their target across the fields of barbed wire. Medical officers of the rear had to treat a huge amount of wounded men: 216, 337 men excluded those wounded by gas. The Battle of Verdun was the Largest Attack History Had Ever Known Zero hour for the Battle of Verdun was set for February 12, 1916. In addition, new pathologies occurred such as frozen feet, chemical wounds. In addition to get back, treat the wounded soldiers then evacuate them to adequate medical unity, the medical officers had to solve the problem of thirst and the treatment of water: the so called technique: verdunisation. Testimonies of medical officers were limited in comparison with other type of soldiers and most of them were included in diaries edited until now. The time for organising the medical corps was short. Medical officers were closely involved in this battle and particularly the French physicians and surgeons due to rapid rotations of their unities. ↑ MacKenzie, Donald A., The story of the Great War, (Buck Press, 2009), 142.The battle of Verdun began February the 21st and finished 1916 December the 16th.The battle was the longest of the First World War and. ↑ The Encyclopedia Americana, Vol.28, (J.B. The Battle of Verdun was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France.During the battle the chief of the German General Staff, Erich Von Falkenhayn, was relieved from duty and sent to lead a joint Austrian, German and Bulgarian attack on Romania, leaving Paul Von Hindenburg as Chief of Staff. After the battle the landscape was left as one of the worst battlegrounds on all of France, filled with craters of the artillery, the trenches, the odor left by the dead, etc. The French commander, Marshall Philippe Pétain, used a system of rotation by which every division in France fought for a short time at Verdun. The battle lowered into a matter of prestige for the two nations, and started being fought for the sake of fighting and honor, according to German command Paul Von Hindenburg. From a strategic point of view, there can be no justification for these terrible losses. The battlefield was not even a square ten kilometres. The battle, which lasted from 21 February 1916 until 19 December 1916, caused over an estimated 700,000 casualties (dead, wounded and missing). There were many attacks and counterattacks one small village changed hands 16 times. It lasts nearly a year as the French Army fends off a surprise German offensive. Never before or since has there been such a long battle, involving so many men, fought on such a tiny piece of land. Battle of Verdun: February 21 to DecemThe Battle of Verdun becomes World War I’s longest single battle. The Battle of Verdun is considered the biggest and longest in world history. They also speak about the Hell of Verdun or the Blood pump. Never before was industrialisation so visible in war. Both sides lost about 337,000 soldiers each. It ended on December 18 of that year but the front line had not changed very much. It started when the German Fifth Army attacked French positions, near Verdun, on February 21, 1916. By February 23, the German army had advanced into French territory and captured two French battalions without the knowledge of French leadership. Wounded French soldiers arrive at Verdun railway station, 1916. The German front began the war on February 21, 1916, through a ten-hour artillery bombardment by 808 guns followed by an attack by three army corps. The Battle of Verdun was a battle of the First World War. 1916 witnessed two of the longest and most notorious battles of the First World War.
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