Does youtube point out exactly why they demonitize your video, or do they make you guess? The latter would be extremely tedious for formatting and releasing an amended video, only for a chance that the updated version wouldn't be demonitized.
Did you just say that you spend thousands of dollars to make a video?!………….AND YOU CANT EVEN RESEARCH WHAT A WAR CASUALTY MEANS!…………IT MEANS THAT THEY CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN BATTLE ANY LONGER DUE TO BEING INJURED PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY……OR THEY ARE DEAD!……JESUS EFFING WEPT!……..ARE YOU DEAD WHEN YOU VISIT THE HOSPITALS CASUALTY DEPARTMENT?…….JESUS!
My grandfather fought in WWI. He was in the part of the Army that trained, supplied, and handled horses. He told me all about trenchfoot and how prevalent it was. He said the standard protection used by many was to coat your bare foot with a healthy layer of Vaseline. Then the first sock went on and was thoroughly massaged until it was impregnated with another coating of Vaseline. Then a third layer of Vaseline was applied on top of that sock and the 2nd sock was pulled on. That was the standard method most soldiers had access to. He told me that people he knew in the mechanical part of the Army, responsible for maintaining vehicles, would sometimes give them used motor oil which they used to coat the exterior of their boots with. His group would even coat horses' hooves with the motor oil since horse have their own version of foot rot. Every night they'd thoroughly clean the hooves, then recoat them just before they moved out.
Thank you for sharing that. Do you know if the Vaseline caused any issues itself? Or the oil on the hooves. And do you know if they dug trenches in a way that water could be controlled, like a trench in the trench?
Yes, it was normal practice in British Trenches to have gutters, and sumps in the trench. And that worked in light rain. But once under heavy fire, and in heavy rain, that design would be pointless and ruined.@@lowkey213
TH-cam’s demonetization is disgusting. Literally stealing money from people who put in hours of hard work to create videos. I feel ya, brotha. Meanwhile, there are people in Cambodia who torture monkeys on film for profit and TH-cam is A-Ok with that.
yeh its not nice, so many tarded rules, youve gotta walk on eggshells all the time, watching what u say and what u show, or they'll allow some channels like news channels to show anything while others get age-restricted for the same clips.. i see people getting shot and dying on some videos, then a quick fight might not be allowed and ive gotta prove im 18
@pepperroni4016 lol TH-cam being overly restrictive so they don't run into issues with advertisers is communism? How about you try learning what a word actually means before using it.
Almost all of the youtubers I watch have issues with demonetisation and/or other youtube BS, and that is exactly why Im never giving youtube a single cent, nor am I willing to watch their stupid advertisements.
In “Forrest Gump”, the first warning Lt Dan gives to Bubba and Forrest was “take care of your feet!”. That’s because a soldier who cannot walk needs one or two other soldiers to move, even during a retreat. That’s also why small land mines were developed specifically to cripple, but NOT kill whoever stepped on it. A dead soldier needs no immediate care or any further protection. His fellow soldiers can keep on fighting. But a wounded soldier who cannot walk needs one or two companions just to exit the battlefield. So that one small mine has taken 2-3 combatants out of the fight instead of just one. Foot injury or disease can immobilize or make ineffective a military unit.
It's also why "punji boards" got developed. Dig a hole, drop a short length of plank in it with nails randomly spaced, pointing up, and cover with SH*T (specifically), then top with trail dust, debris, and some leaves... sweep it with the rest of the area to remove tracks and traces... When a soldier's foot lands on the punji, the spikes drive that fecal matter RIGHT up the wound tracts... guaranteeing gangrene if not treated relatively promptly... and in the jungle, deep forest, or other mobilized ground cover... figure the odds of any kind of prompt treatment... If a human soldier can't walk, he loses a bit more than 80% of his combat efficacy... just like that... pffft. AND boards full of nails, bamboo spikes, small crippling mines... taking 2 or 3 helpers out as well as the one or two "directly hit" is a HELL of a lot cheaper than some big fancy gun or bomb that can knock down a wall or even take out a village you ain't found yet. ;o)
I got trench foot out in the field when I was in the army. It was my first time in the field as an artilleryman. I wasn't supposed to go I had been selected to go to Armorer school but when I got there I was told the limit had been reached so I had to go to the field. I had 5 minutes to pack enough gear for 2 weeks in the field. I rushed to pack so fast I forgot to pack socks. After 8 days in the same socks and sweeting and cold conditions you could smell my foot through my boot. It was horrible. That was 17 years ago and it still has my feet messed up to this day.
@@brandenstapleton9641 It's about good practices. I remember the day a guy in our shop cut off his thumb on the band saw. He'd been a carpenter for 20 years without issue. Even if you're very confident that you can avoid injury, there's *no* reason to do things more dangerously than you have to.
I agree. This is bad technique. "Oh, I'm far enough from the blade" is not an answer if you are in the path of the blade. I noticed the same issue when using the knife at the start to cut the boot. In the path of the knife, but hoping the material would slow its travel.
How does something like this get age restricted? Edit: Never expected this many replies with my rhetorical question pointing out the absurdity of *age restricting* the video. Comment upon comment touches on the demonetization and advertisers. That is not what I was pointing out.
My brother got trench foot or the beginning of it in Vietnam. His commander saw it and sent him on the evac to the field hospital. Yes, people did die of trench foot in WWI and some in WWII. You can go septic really fast, and before antibiotics, most people died.
As someone who scratched an itch and ended up in the hospital with a patch of skin so swollen it went numb from infection within minutes that doesn’t shock me good news is I also cleared the infection before I actually saw a doctor super strange eye opening experience
My Army career started during the Vietnam war - I was sent to South Korea, thankfully; but, the boots we had back then were absolutely horrible!! Blisters if you walk too far, trench foot issues during monsoon season and frostbite during the winters.
The first antibiotics were introduced in 1910, so there must have been a huge shortage on the front lines and a lot of really unlucky people for it to be 75,000 dying. That said a lot of the salves and poultices prior to 1910 were in later tests found to have antimicrobial properties so it's not like they entirely went without in the previous wars, they just didn't know why certain things worked.
I was homeless for a few months 6 years ago. Got terrible trenchfoot one time. My whole foot, top and bottom was bleach white, visibly larger and half-numb. All healed now, but I still have remnants of a long crack on the bottom of my right foot to this day.
I had a homeless patient who developed trench foot. He was lucky to save his feet but it was horrifically painful. I'm used to foot wounds being numb like from diabetes and this poor man suffered.
It's pretty horrible either way, but I'd argue that untreated diabetes is worse than trench foot, since it can result in the loss of your fingers, or even your eyesight or hearing. That, on top of feeling miserable all the time because of the systemic effects of diabetes.
I’ve had a mild case of trench foot after spending all day in the ditch with rubber boots full of water catching frogs. It was sooo itchy and the crevices from the wrinkles very sore for a week. I’m glad that it only happened that one time during my childhood.
Same for me when I've been flyfishing all day in leaking waders and wading boots that are too small. I didn't even know this was a thing but I'm gonna be more cautious in the future and I did get rid of my old wading gear.
Was delayed on a construction project. Went to work at 8 a.m with nice weather so was wearing comfortable shoes instead of workboots, started raining at 10 a.m, finished working at 7 p.m, was taking a shower at 8,30 p.m. My feet were destroyed in a single day way worse than the ones he showed on the picture, the cement with the rain made the skin fracture on the sides of the feet, painful to walk but healed fast once the feet were kept dry. If you were not able to dry your feet i am pretty sure you would be unable to walk in less than a week.
Note: The term 'casualty' applies to: KIlled In Action (KIA) Wounded In Action (WIA) Missing In Action (MIA) Non-Battle Injury and Died of Wounds (DOW - made it to the hospital but later died) Trench Foot would be a 'Non-Battle Injury' because it was a result of combat operations. In peacetime people who become missing while acting in the line of duty (such as a missing aircraft) are listed as DSTWN (Duty Status and Whereabouts Unknown)
Weird how all these channels who complain about getting age restricted or demonetized never seem to say the reason. Just vague suggestion and innuendo. When Internet Historian pulled a video because he stole other people's work, he did the same thing. "Just fill in the blanks with some oppression fantasy." Is that what happened here? Did the original video get demonetized and restricted for a good reason? Maybe this guy knew someone like you would show up to do hysterical dramatics instead of demanding to know what happened. I would refuse to participate in such performative nonsense, but it's a free country.
@@carlosdelgado4872 It's not disturbing because it's not historical censorship or any kind of censorship. He used a copyrighted clip from another channel in the original video. It was from the BBC. It's not in this one. I don't know if that's why it got demonetized, but the person you're replying to has exactly zero evidence that anything else happened. These big channels are made rich by the algorithm. Sometimes they steal other people's work. When they get caught, they pretend they are being censored. It's just normal media dishonesty like all the rest.
@@meepk633 have you taken your meds today? If you don’t know why channels like this get demonetized you might have bigger problems outside of TH-cam. Thanks for the essay response? Get help either way.
I was stationed in Germany during my time in ( mid 80s) and saw a few guys suffer from it as well as frostbite . Foot care is key as well as good boots . We were allowed to wear german or any other nato boot over there and i found the french boots to be very good . I bought expensive socks and took care of my feet . American issue boots were inferior in the cold wet German climate . Lots of people are boot junkies but im a sock snob . Good socks will save your feet.
I spend a lot of time in work boots So I'm a sock enthusiast aswell, i tried it all, spent money i found that merino wool with coolmax works the best in all weather conditions
Completely agree with you on this mate. Trench foot was a problem in the Falklands conflict too. One would have thought we’d have learned from WW1 !! I’m not sure if this story is apocryphal but British soldiers were using “ captured “ argie boots. Not a very satisfactory state of affairs.
@@andygardner9219 I never found any US boot even satisfactory . The jungles cut my ankles to shreds and the issues were horrible in nearly every way , save for maybe traction. I bought a pair of Danners when I rotated back to the states but the unit commander said no non issue boots in my battalion . So I ended up leaving service with a new pair of danners . Still have em . In Europe none of us wore American boots , at least not in the infantry. I’ve heard the falklands have some crazy weather .
Been wearing work boots in heavy construction/welding for 25 years and totally agree about the sock snobbery. But I'm also a boot snob. Pay more up front and get something that works well and lasts.
The fact that they won't allow anything related to WW2 era Germany to be viewed in anything other than an evil light, should tell people something. But somehow I doubt that it will. The brainwashing is pretty thorough at this point.
That’s exactly why it got deleted If we can’t remember the history we’re doomed to repeat it And who wouldn’t want to destabilize one of the most powerful nations to ever exist
I was a combat medic in the millitary, you would think the health of the soldier was my job but it was not. Just like every piece of equipment in service the soldeir has a task it is fitted for. My job was to get that soldier "combat effective" just like any other tool, vehicle or weapon. Consider the individual soldier as a part of a unit, if that unit needed to march they were expected to all be able to complete that march at a certain pace and considered distance. 99% of my job on marches was feet, the only thing considered more important on a soldier than his feet was his stomach! The army marches on its stomach, the soldier marches on his feet!
What can you give someone whose feet are hurting during an important march? To keep them going however longer they need to walk. I'm serious, opioids for the pain? I mean, what can one do but manage the pain? If he's super tired, is it your job to give him amphetamines? (in order to finish that really important march). Don't mean to be spurious, just curious! :)
@@nisselarson3227it’s a great question. I had shin splints due to the footwear. Years later my feet are wrecked with plantar fasciitis I’m getting surgery for. I broke my foot in service - I deal with it daily decades later, and 0% of it is considered debilitating from the VA. Go figure.
@@KarsKirai I know soldiers are normally not allowed to take off their boots and socks while on duty. But how often did you see it happening around you?
i've been in a wheelchair my whole life.. hell, i dont even wear shoes cuz they are a pain in the ass for me when i transfer out of my wheelchair... but, for sorme reason this was recommended to me and now i find myself on this weird worker boot rabbithole. lol. TY for teaching me stuff i never knew i needed to know. :) Also, i had to comment cuz your lil animation of shrinking the dasani bottle, was hilarious.
yo whats up hotwheels! i almost wound up in a chair young was saved by a 1/4 inch of a table saw. what do you do for fun? do you feel sorry for yourself? depressed blog post me my guy
@@carlmarker9257 in chair since a month shy of 2.. i'm 41... tornado. killed my family , put me in wheelchair. What do i do for fun? internet n gaming. i like racing n cars. Do i feel sorry for myself? yes n no. i'm fine being a crip, depression has kicked my ass, n i'm filled w/nothing but social anxiety n fear n rarely leave my house anymore, mainly cuz i cant afford to. So i live online, dont blog about it. I just go down weird youtube recommended rabbit holes. always look'n to learn something new if possible.
My grandfather served in WW1, and I remember my mother telling me about him telling her stories of guys who had trench foot. Thank you for the informative video!
Tolkien was invalided out from the front line with trenchfoot in 1916 and survived WW1, unlike most of his remaining battalion who were killed. Without trenchfoot most likely we would not have any of his writings or his influence on popular culture today.
Served in Germany in the 80's and early 90's and took part in the last NATO cold war exercise in 89. Operation Iron Hammer . . . The first two weeks went well but then a freak cold weather front came in and temperatures dropped to -10 with a wind chill of -25. I have never seen that much snow to this day. As it was unexpected we hadn't been issued artic cold weather clothing but had to continue with the exercise regardless. I wore two pairs of socks and had on the standard issue British army combat assault boot. We were lead up onto a hill side and ordered to dig trenches during a blizzard, the ground was frozen solid, after a couple of hours of digging I took my water bottle out to take a drink and it too was frozen solid as well. By now my feet were not only soaking wet but numb from the cold. In the morning we came off the hill and moved into the forest where our vehicles were. In order to take my boots off I sat up on top of a warrior fighting vehicle while the engine was running and had to sit there with my boots on the exhaust grate's to thaw them out. My boots were frozen solid to my feet. This went on for two weeks and needless to say I developed what was called frost nip a cross between frost bite and trench foot. It was the first night though that done the damage. So I guess what I am saying is its conditions that cause trench foot yes bad boots don't help the cause but freezing temperatures or feet being constantly wet. I took my boots off every morning washed, dried and powdered my feet thawing them out but still suffered badly. It took me 6 weeks to walk properly again and three months to recover fully afterwards. Back then it was hard to get a boot that would keep your foot dry and stop it from sweating. Around 25% of my battalion suffered from the same condition to different degrees. So you could say afterward the battalion lost 25% of its strength. So freezing weather conditions feet being constantly wet and bad leadership at the company commander and battalion commander level caused that misery exactly the same as WW1! some things never change.
@@seldoon_nemarthings were different back then but agree with you totally. I have nerve damage in my toes and develop a limp slightly when it gets really cold, In the grand scale of things its nothing compared to some veterans. Thanks for your comment.
@@BuzzinVideographyI was 18 years old so it was an adventure. When we got back to camp I soaked my feet in hot water. It was Saturday night and I still hobbled out partying, we got extremely drunk and a good time was had by all. After a big exercise like that we would always have a big piss up. Frost bite a trench foot didn't stop me that weekend. It did every weekend after that though. Thanks for your comment
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I've had to deal with a mild case of trench foot before. We went backpacking and it was basically 45 F or below and raining the entire time we were out there. End of the second day, I took my boots off after basically being damp all day, and all of the skin on the bottom of my foot was pruned and painful to touch. I basically had to sit near the campfire for 3 hours with my feet elevated because putting weight on them or exposing them to cold made the pins and needles worse.
Just to maybe answer your curiosity about the term "casualty" (as an Army veteran myself): it is a broad term that can be used to describe the wounded, the sick, and the dead. For those who are among the wounded/sick casualties, it is possible for many of them to return to duty on the front lines after receiving medical treatment. That delineation is why historical documentaries of battles or wars will often denote both x-number of casualties (per day or overall) along with x-number of dead.
No advertiser wants to advertise on TH-cam with a bunch of rotting feet. Advertisers are the ultimate source of funding for TH-cam and TH-camrs and what advertisers want is most important.
@@xs10z Manipulating peoples accessibility to historical knowledge for money, yeah this is gonna end well. At least the other extremist groups that have done EXACTLY this had other motives than cold hard cash, TH-cam is worse than them for that in my eyes.
@@xs10zyou can still find companies who would benefit from videos showing nasty images, like rotting feet. For example, someone who produces shoes that supposedly prevents your feet from reaching that state.
That sucks bro, I just subbed finding this reupload so I guess a plus for you! I was obsessed with WWI a few years ago, but into WWII these days, but this always boggled my mind about how people could walk around in muck for months or years even. I’ve had mild trench foot just doing trail work in January for a day in wet conditions. This is worthwhile investigation in my book.
Trench foot had a major effect on all of the combatant armies on the western front, including the British, French, and Germans. It was the conditions in the trenches far more than the boot itself being at fault. When you are standing in mud, just about any combat boot is going to fail you. Even when I was in the Marines, the military had to issue a boot we called the "Jungle boot" to deal with the problem of feet getting sweaty and my own experience in indo-China was that the Jungle Boot was a huge improvement over the all leather boot, but you still had to carry a couple of pairs of dry socks. The modern combat boots appear to be an evolution of that early design and I am sure that they are superior in every way, but being an old school Marine, I still carry some dry socks when I go on long hike.
Yes the first thing I thought is that it was extremely unfair to blame the boot. They could have had the finest quality boots of the time and it wouldn't have helped much at all with trench foot
Homeless people are often good first line responders for what works and what doesn’t. We know that blood draw facilities treasure the blood of homeless people due to immunity strength buildup in their immune systems. From my 1985 times out in tenderloin district of San Francisco!
@@XxxXxx-br7eqDid you actually listen to the content in the video? He explains very clearly and specifically why this boot made matters worse in the conditions encountered in the trenches. That was the whole point of the video, so I'm not sure how you missed it. Something that increases the likelihood and the severity of a problem is generally considered worse than something that reduces them.
@@another3997 it's easy to go back now and retrospectively say hey these are all the things that were terrible about the boot but the fact is at that time with that technology no matter what boot they would have made it would have been just as bad
Especially since we used to be able to play music & videos with the app closed and pre buffer the entire video (so no interruptions waiting to load), for free! I mean…. I knew they were gunna add advertising at some point but 15-30 second unskippable ads is just silly. They just took so much away to put behind a pay wall. It’s annoying.
There are competitors but people don't use them. Also how do you make functional business? You add ads, people come with adblock, you make only paid membership and you don't get viewers, you make paid hosting and you don't get content creators.
That's why Finnish infantry has separate rain boots and winter boots. Both are used with thick felt liners, in addition to the double socks worn even with standard boots.
My feet started hurting as soon as you showed the inside of that boot and how stiff that leather my toes also shed tears when I saw examples of shoes before this design... also from what ive seen about WWI the people who issued this boot probably did not care if it worked or was uncomfortable until they had enough cases of trench foot to where it was "hurting the war effort on the front"
The issue is more that "we need 1 million pairs of boots right now!" When you suddenly need to produce at those levels the quality suffers, because there just arent enough skilled people to do it. Especially when you also need 1 million rifles, 2 million pairs of pants, 2 million shirts etc etc, _all at the same time_ while grabbing those same skilled people, and sending them to the front. They could have the most cautious, humane, people in charge imaginable and the result would still have been the same. My Grandfather served in WW1, in France (artilleryman and sniper). The winter of 1916 was so cold that they could not take their boots off to sleep, otherwise the sweat in the leather would freeze meaning they could not get them back on in the morning without the leather cracking. Its easy to blame the leaders. It means you dont have to burden yourself with knowledge.
My grandfather was in one of the first AEF units in France, and had that boot. I know he had that boot because he had two pairs when I was a kid. One he had resoled without hobnails, and one still had the hobnails that he wore when he went out to farms to work. I think it was easy to blame the boot, it was considered too expensive at the time and was seen as a boondoggle. The troops in the trenches, were in trenches and rain seeks the lowest point which turned out to be trenches. Because the fighting was so heavy in most areas, getting out of one trench and going to another place to use the bathroom wasn't safe so... 'la trine' or 'the trench' was the default bathroom. So, standing in a foot of sewer water for days will cause trench foot.. like my grandfather got, he lost toes to trench foot, immersion foot, frost bite.... and his lower legs looked like he already had two feet in the grave. Now, what does trench foot and frost bite do in the long run? beyond the war? I was in the Navy for 20, and yeah I had a bit of trench foot and frost bite.... it messes up your feet's circulation long run so sometimes I feel them and sometimes it feels like I'm wearing overly tight boots.
Seeing you cut the boot open I was so concerned that you might slip and hurt yourself. You pulled the knife towards your hand and pushed your hand towards the band saw. This boot is 100 years old and, you said yourself, that you didn't know what was inside. If the materials had given way you would seriously hurt yourself. Please be careful in future. Otherwise, this was a great video. Well done.
These historical shoe/boot videos are my absolute favorites! Seeing what people used and learning the stories behind them is so awesome! Thank you so much for doing this! Ps: please please please do the 1918 boot!
The fact that they won't allow anything related to WW2 era Germany to be viewed in anything other than an evil light, should tell people something. But somehow I doubt that it will. The brainwashing is pretty thorough at this point.
I got a rotten case of this messing about with the army when I was a cadet in German forests about 1992. It was horrible, stunk of ammonia, and was very painful, I had pieces of skin coming off in sheets, weeping fluids. My feet were so itchy and hot on top on the pain. Decades later my feet are still prone to problems, that fungus gets in DEEP and treating it daily for weeks still doesn't shift it all. No way you are tabbing miles with a pack when you have bad 'immersion foot'. I was just lucky I didn't get secondary infections and septicemia.
Great analysis of the boot. I always knew intuitively that no leather boot would do well if immersed in water for long periods of time...and in the case of WWI trench warfare, days if not weeks at a time...WW1 raised human misery to a level and scale never experienced before in warfare and the shortcomings brought out on what normally would be considered well-made leather boots was just another evidence of this new reality.
I liked the original cut of this but glad you left both version up. I wore a pair of timberland a1fzp boots for 5.5 months for 12 hours 4-5 days a week and the moisture getting trapped lead to a lot of painful calluses that eventually flaked off.
Thanks for covering this boot. One of my favorites too. It was close to the French boot in design but not sure of construction. it would be nice to compare them. 30 years in the Army tells me there was no way out for the GIs . They were just in water all the time and the boots couldn't dry out because you had no place or time to dry them out... until you were taken off the line. Rubber boots could help but often the mud and water was so deep the boots would get submerged...hip waders would not be good in an attack .. and I doubt there were enough pairs to help much . This is still a problem for a modern Army as you know from your jungle boot video.
You will never stay dry in serious weather. Coat your feet in wax, wear good quality wool socks, and wear footwear with good drainage. Andrew Skurka teaches this technique. He circumnavigated Alaska on foot and knows how to deal with wet feet.
Ran into this in my own military career. Was stationed out at Schofield Barracks, HI. Went to the Kahuku’s for what was supposed to be a two week field problem. Rained for the first four days and guys started developing trench foot. One of the few times in my 21 year career as an infantryman that training had to actually be canceled. Trench foot is no joke.
@@nathueil1 I was in 1-14, which no longer exists. They cased the colors when they swapped back to light brigades. Not sure who thought it was a great idea to make a Stryker brigade in the middle of the Pacific, but it played out about how it sounds…lol.
The people at TH-cam have taken an absolute awesome platform and systematically and intentionally destroyed it. I don’t know what their agenda is but it’s definitely not in favor of the content creators. Sad.
I went on a 2 week hike/canoeing adventure in the Snowy Mountains in Victoria/NSW Australia. I got trench foot. Oh my godddddddd. I was lucky it was a leisure experience, and that I had access to first aid and fire to help dry out my feet and shoes/socks. Still had to hike though, it happened half way through it all. But those soldiers.. they had none of that. No safety or choice. Edit: the bottoms of both my feet were waterlogged with river water and essentially just giant blisters, skin sloughing off in places as well. It mostly occurred on the bottom surface areas (in their entirety). Happened only after a few hours of hiking in wet shoes.
My father ( ex army) reckoned you could write a whole book on the English army and boots. Everything from gumboots being issued in the desert through to the boer war where someone decided to put all left boots on one ship and right boots in another. The logic being that if the Boers captured a ship, the boots would be useless. Of course, one of the ships got sunk - doh. Dunno if anyone has a reference to this yarn or not😊
Officer's boots had a left and right but, other soldiers boots during the Boer war were both the same, no separate left and right models. So unless the ships were full of officer's boots, I'd have to say the story is BS. 😁
One might assume that trench foot is no longer a major problem, since it's so well known and we know its causes. However, it's still relatively easy to get in certain climates. Here in Finland we have universal male conscription and, given our climate, trench foot is a real problem. Maintaining our health is an important part of basic training and trench foot is one of the first things we learn to avoid, since getting your feet damp, even through rubber boots, is unfortunately unavoidable and just a matter of time. Wet feet also leaves you very vulnerable to frostbite during the winter. Thus, trench foot is extremely dangerous, even today. Apart from the prevention methods mentioned in the video, we also used newspapers in a method we call kenkäheinä aka shoehay. It's an old trick that, as far as I know, was invented by the Sami people. You simply place pages of newspapers/hay beneath your insoles and replace them as they start to get wet. The newspapers/hay also functions as an insulative layer, making it an useful trick for cold climates.
Makes me wonder whether a Roman Military sandal, at least as a backup, might not be the best footwear. Yes you foot will get wet instantly but it will also dry quickly.
One time as a kid I went out to play in the cold. I have hyperhidrosis and sweat heavily via my feet. My feet were sweaty in my winter boot, my sock had slid down and some melted snow trickled down the top of the boot. My toes were so cold I couldn’t feel they but kept playing because I was a silly kid. It took hours for my feet to defrost They were patchy white and red and it hurt to walk for a few days That’s as close to trench foot as I would like to get
Trench foot was still a problem in 1982 for british forces in the Falklands, the DMS direct moulded soles constantly failed. Special forces didn’t use them and a lot of Royal Marines & Paras relied on private purchased boots with gaiters or the rubber NBC overboots to try and stop water ingress. The terrain was wet, constant marshland, with few opportunities to get the boots off & feet & socks dried/changed. Even now the issue boots Haix are pretty much disliked by most, with second hand altbergs being much sought after. Waterproof sealskinz socks have been issued, but by that point the boot is already full of water.
RAMC 83-86. My training corporal from para clearing troop in Falklands, had bad trench foot. Many did.During Lionheart and snow queen pretty bad boots. 4/5 lace hole could not be laced as it cut deep into top of foot and I do mean deep.
I've had a, not as sever but close, case of trench foot, it was one of the worst things I've experienced. I still have lasting effects from having it about 17 years ago.
@@lovejumanji5 it comes from having wet shoes and socks for more than a few days, and not having the opportunity to get dry shoes and socks. So pretty much like soaking and grinding your feet in mud and grime for about a week.
And your feet probably smell really bad very quickly from this. My dad's feet atin and he was in sviet army and these guys back then were bragging who's feet stink the most. They didn't even had socks thenm but piece of clothing
To be fair, in WW1 western front conditions, every shoe would give you trench foot... fun fact, one big reason the Roman Soldiers wore 'Caligula' (military sandal boots).
This. Foot problems in ww1 were pretty endemic and not because of one particular welt design or construction technique. They did the best with the materials they had.
@@Christian762realistically could they have been better off with essentially crocs with shoelaces to keep them from falling off. Seems like if it's impossible to stop the foot getting wet might as well have it always draining.
@@lukasg4807it was usually too cold and you have to remember they were expected to March across no man’s land with mines, shrapnel, rotting corpses all in between. I don’t think you’d want a more open shoe in these conditions despite the drawbacks of a closed design. Also frostbite was a big issue and it’s even worse when your feet are wet constantly
@@anon2427 It could be re-enforced sandals, I've seen some, construction workers in some places use them. It's like regular reinforced shoes with steel toes and steel inside, but with opening on the side. And nothing would help you, if you step on mines. lol
The Roman soldiers would not have worn caligae if they fought in the trenches on the western front. Open shoes or sandals will not prevent trench foot if you're standing in a a couple feet of mud and water.
I received trench foot in the army at fort Benning Georgia in 1990. It has never completely healed and still bothers me. Very painful , skin comes off in chunks. We had the black leather boots with tire tread soles.
My grandfather acquired trench foot in the pacific during ww2. Suffered with it for the rest of his life. Also came home from war with dentures as most of his teeth rotted out of his head in the jungle.
@@Hatesmostofyou27 Lack of vitamin C in some rations, or somebody not drinking the sugary powdered drink with vitamin C in it. He may have served right before that got figured out.
I’m happy the rewatch this, as this was a great video. I like these historical videos of on boots. Does TH-cam provide any feedback on why they do this? Do you need to cite sources etc. I’ll keep an eye our for that colab. I would guess a Falcon-like boot on the Munson last. In a waxed or roughout leather.
I like history, but I NEVER thought I'd find the history of a boot to be as interesting as this vid was--definitely watching more boot videos! LOL But I think I have some experience of trench foot...due to bad luck and/or poor decisions, I found myself sleeping in my car, in winter, in Denver, CO. I was wearing military surplus army boots that I almost never took off--b/c it was cold! So, yeah, by the end, the skin was peeling bad and my feet smelled like death. After recovering from all that, I went back to the army surplus store and got some Jungle boots. Of course, I didn't spend another winter in my car to see if they were significantly better, so I'll just have to watch your Jungle boot vid!
Can you tell the story of French boots of 1812 that caused the issues for the Great Army on its retreat from Moscow and eventually for the demise of Napoleon?
Would like to have this as well. Just the problem of finding a boot of this vintage for the vid. These need a real visual of the boot and able to take them apart for a examination of the problems in the use of the boot.
Awesome video. Your videos are what led me to my first pair of LL Bean boots that have lasted me every fall, winter and spring since. Since then I've become a fish processor. It was interesting to hear you talk about trench foot something that we have to worry about pretty regularly. I would love to see you do a video on why Alaskans love Xtratuffs so much!
Was delayed on a construction project. Went to work at 8 a.m with nice weather so was wearing comfortable shoes instead of workboots, started raining at 10 a.m, finished working at 7 p.m, was taking a shower at 8,30 p.m. My feet were destroyed in a single day way worse than the ones you showed on the picture, the cement with the rain made the skin fracture on the sides of the feet, painful to walk but healed fast once the feet were kept dry. If you were not able to dry your feet i am pretty sure you would be unable to walk in less than a week.
Have pictures of my grandfather in this exact boot prior to departing to France in late 1917/early 1918. Never knew they swapped these out due to the problems you pointed out. OTH, own a pair of 25+ year old Chippewa Munson last boots that other than a couple of resoles are still going strong and can walk all day in them. So they got it half right I guess. The Munson fit is great if you have “paddle feet” which runs in my family.
Reposting and slightly revising my comment from the original video: Although this particular model of boot was only worn for a year by the US military, it was copied from a French boot that was worn essentially unchanged from 1897 to the Algerian war in the 1960s. Regarding the 1918 boot, I do not think there were any major construction differences, the changes were more concerned with making them more durable (triple instead of double sole, extra stitching and rivets on the heels, giant metal toe plate) The half sole and nailed heels rather than heel plate also make me think this pair may have been depot refurbished. Here are a few official orders pertaining to the care and repair of feet and footwear: HQ, AEF France, December 7, 1917 Bullentin, No. 13 I. The following instructions for the repair of shoes are published for the information and guidance of all concerned: 1. Soles of shoes should be renailed with hobnails as soon as the original ones are worn down close to the leather. 2. The old nails should not be remoned but new nailes should be placed between the old ones. 3. Square head Cabosh nails will be used in repairing heels instead of replacing the heel plates. This will require about 40 nails to a pair of heels. Cabosh nails will be supplied by quartermaster depot on requisition. (6631-A. G. O) GHQ, AEF France, January 24, 1918 Bulletin, No. 5 1. Division and other Quartermasters will carefully collect all beef tallow not absolutely necessary for use of troops and send it to the nearest Quartermaster Depot, from which place it will be forwarded weekly to the Salvage Depot, at St. pierre-des-Corps, Indre et Loire. 2. Empty vinegar, oil, or other similar barrels may be used for this purpose. 3. This tallow is to be used for making Dubbin for the preservation of shoes. from GO No 11, January 17, 1918 (these orders covered an an increase in certain ration items during the winter, collisions between autos and motor bikes and trench foot) GO 11, IV 4 (e ) That the feet of all are vigorously rubbed at least once each day and perferably with some animal fat such as tallow or whale oil. GO 11, IV 9 Foot powders and the various oils, greases or ointments to be used in the prevention and treatment of "Trench Foot" and other diseases of the foot will be furnished by the Medical Department. The necessary supplies for application to boots, shoes, etc., will be supplied by the Quartermaster Corps.
I don’t know if it would count as “trench foot” but once as a kid I went on a three day camping trip with my dad and his friends and I remember my shoes and socks being wet for at least two days of it. My feet looked nearly as bad as that but not bad enough to require medical treatment. My poor dad lost some hearing when my mom got done yelling at him though😅
SAME, but had it for a week and was embarrassed to tell anyone and said i had a blister. walking funny and very painful, lucky it cleared up on its own.
Back in the day (60's) as a Boy Scout (no, never heard or experienced any of issues now in the news) we did a lot of hiking and overnights. Great experience. However, I was always amazed at what kids wore to walk in and keep warm. Hikes were typically only a day thing with the usual complaints of blisters, sore legs and aching backs. But, then it was over. The real issues usually happened on camp-outs. Boots (or often, just sneakers), clothes, coats, and sleeping bags would get wet. I remember steam coming off of my boots set up around the campfire. We always had at the very minimum 2 adults on camp-outs. And occasionally kids would be driven home if their situation got questionable.
Yea I've definitely woken up a few times to see my boots completely frozen while mountain climbing, my old boots I used were so bad Idk why I trusted them for snow. My feet always went numb after an hour or two in the snow and night in the tent was when they would painfully defrost.
I can only speak as a Soldier from the 80's in the UK. We was always polishing our boots, I never really thought much about it till I was on my first Exercise (Maneuvers) which just happened to be wet and based in what seem like a river bed or swamp. Our boots acted like rubber boots. All that oily polish acted like waterproofing. Plus the soles and construction of the boots were completely different than those WW1 boots. Also I hear today the boots in The British Army are not as good as the ones we had, cost savings I guess.
First time watching. Thanks for reuploading! Something felt off and I couldn't put my finger on it, until about one-third of the way through the video when I realised it was the images I assume you used to replace the old, accurate ones. It's reassuring to know children of all ages can now watch you dissect a combat boot and talk about mass death and amputations without having to learn what a diseased foot looks like. Another TH-cam parenting win.
I remember reading that the Austro-hungarian forces during WW1 were using boots with cardboard soles, in the mountains, in the winter. If you find those it would be pretty interesting to watch what the heck were they thinking.
If it was late in the war I'd say it was materials shortages; if it was at the start I've got nothing. I do like these historic footwear videos, hope he does US Civil War Brogues at some point.
@nathangamble125 and when your feet inevitably let out some sweat and the sweat seaps into the cardboard which itself begins disintegrating? A cardboard sole could hardly last a day.
Casualty doesn’t mean death, it means injured to the point you can no longer serve. So KIA is a casualty, but a casualty doesn’t necessarily mean you died.
I got trench foot. An older doctor told me that he hadn’t seen this since Nam’ Worked doing HVAC in a semi flooded crawl space for ten hours a day 7 days a week at a job site that required steel toe boots (not uncommon ) After two months of this I was in the tub and just yanked a toenail off. The rest followed suit not long after. My feet reeked and the boots was worse.
When you mentioned about how leather has historically been used for shoes but nowadays we use rubber boots for wet conditions, its worth noting that historically farmers etc used wooden clogs and such for exactly this problem, leather allows moisture to seep in when working in a wet field
There's been all sorts of crap like this; I know that Forgotten Weapons had probs when showing historically-accurate German flags from a period that YT has deemed ... too historic to see or some nonsense.
I'm a High School teacher and a WW1 expert. I love the video. Thank you. I'm sure my grandfather used this boot in early US entry into WW1. He made it through but I love to see his troubles.
I was homeless for 8 years after I got out of the army, no trench foot during the time in the army lol, but OMG! I can’t even begin to tell you how god awful and painful it is. If you want to help someone homeless, SOCKS! They will love you, I promise!
@@invalidaccount2315yup, dress in layers. You don't want to sweat at all in the cold, especially if you don't have lots of water to drink, and you're lost somewhere.
After Marine Corp bootcamp, I was sent to MCT (Marine Combat Training), which is 17 days in the field. After these 17 days, parts of both of my feet were numb for about 5 years, and I get athlete's foot once a year. This has been 25 years effect of 17 days in the field.
I think i got it from being a bike messenger by wearing waterproof socks for a few weeks. Ive spent much of my life outdoors and have had a helluva time keeping it surpressed over the past 25 years. If i step in stagnant water in the bush, i have about 3 hours to find a place to get off my feet before things start happening. I rarely wear socks twice and buy fresh packs every week. I tend to view socks as bandages more than clothing. Lol
@@nathangamble125 I have a choice. Poison my feet with cleaning agents in attempts to subdue fungi or simply get rid of it. Not sure how thats a difficult choice.
Fascinating boot. I wonder if and/or how British, German, French boots were better than the American boots vis a vis trench foot. Like you I also wonder what changes were made to the replacement boot to improve performance in the trench warfare environment.
You learn something new every day I didn't expect trench foot to be this bad. I only expected it to be like what happens if you swim in a pool for several hours or something because it looks about the same, I had no idea it was such a dangerous condition.
Love your dedication to this Weston, I feel like a lot of people would be discouraged from the amount of videos you’ve had flagged because of history. Keep it up ma
I missed the first one but holy hell, I had no idea. Video was well done, I loved the insight and the style of those boots looks so good. Some modern updates on that would be a killer office/general use boot.
What really caused Trench foot (btw I had to write a 3 page paper just on trench foot) is Luke cold mud. The germs as well as grit mud has brings a constant rough rub on the bottom of the foot. the wrinkles we see when we stay in water to long also make our foot very soft and makes the skin very fragile, thus, creating cracks and once hidden skin layers open to the environment.
Really hate this modern trend of people, govt, and companies trying to control information people share... Especially when it's history! History is rarely, if ever, pretty, but it's fascinating and useful to learn from as well. Keep these videos up, just recently found your channel and it's fantastic and this series is a lot of fun to watch.
the person or people who were issued this shoe definitely had a bad time. even if they didn’t get trench foot, even if they didn’t die; they definitely saw death up close and a lot of it. the past was the worst
The primary media platform in our culture shouldn't be one that says "no controversial topics because we refuse to moderate." TH-cam is abdicating responsibility in a way that only dissuades those with positive intent.
I once went on a 9 day hiking across mountains, and for 5 days I was socking wet in my boots, which caused severe pain when I walked. It was like my feet got torn up, but still felt like intact. Used lots of bandages to ease the pain. Never knew of that until watching the video.
Bro. I dont even do woodwork or whatever but the way he was handling that boot?? I just saw a soft spot waiting for him to drive his hand and cut it in two. Oof cutting tools givd me so much anxiety and I think for the better. 😂 I'm always extra safe around such
My butthole puckered. I fuckin used to cut lumber with a 1980s radial arm saw that would hit some hard grain or something and shoot the saw towards my midsection and the stop that was on the radial arm was broke. Lawsuit waiting to happen.
When I was in Marine Corps boot camp in 2016, we had these boots, which we were issued as Rat Boots, and they caused us temporary loss of feeling in our toes. Thankfully, when I had the first chance to buy new boots in MCT, the feeling slowly returned over the rest of my service till 2020.
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? Why demonetise ???? Over a boot ? 👢
Can you do the Australian GP's ? General Purpose Army boots.. the older ones are better than today's desert ones but heavy!
Does youtube point out exactly why they demonitize your video, or do they make you guess? The latter would be extremely tedious for formatting and releasing an amended video, only for a chance that the updated version wouldn't be demonitized.
" It's weird in my opinion, to not, show people..History "
- That's because you are a Normal Human Being.
Did you just say that you spend thousands of dollars to make a video?!………….AND YOU CANT EVEN RESEARCH WHAT A WAR CASUALTY MEANS!…………IT MEANS THAT THEY CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN BATTLE ANY LONGER DUE TO BEING INJURED PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY……OR THEY ARE DEAD!……JESUS EFFING WEPT!……..ARE YOU DEAD WHEN YOU VISIT THE HOSPITALS CASUALTY DEPARTMENT?…….JESUS!
My grandfather fought in WWI. He was in the part of the Army that trained, supplied, and handled horses. He told me all about trenchfoot and how prevalent it was. He said the standard protection used by many was to coat your bare foot with a healthy layer of Vaseline. Then the first sock went on and was thoroughly massaged until it was impregnated with another coating of Vaseline. Then a third layer of Vaseline was applied on top of that sock and the 2nd sock was pulled on. That was the standard method most soldiers had access to.
He told me that people he knew in the mechanical part of the Army, responsible for maintaining vehicles, would sometimes give them used motor oil which they used to coat the exterior of their boots with. His group would even coat horses' hooves with the motor oil since horse have their own version of foot rot. Every night they'd thoroughly clean the hooves, then recoat them just before they moved out.
Thank you for sharing that. Do you know if the Vaseline caused any issues itself? Or the oil on the hooves. And do you know if they dug trenches in a way that water could be controlled, like a trench in the trench?
That's CRAZY
Yes, it was normal practice in British Trenches to have gutters, and sumps in the trench. And that worked in light rain.
But once under heavy fire, and in heavy rain, that design would be pointless and ruined.@@lowkey213
@@uncletiggermclaren7592 Yeah, the first shell impact would render anything like that moot.
Vaseline is good for your foot for about 4 hours, after that it doesnt help.
TH-cam’s demonetization is disgusting. Literally stealing money from people who put in hours of hard work to create videos. I feel ya, brotha. Meanwhile, there are people in Cambodia who torture monkeys on film for profit and TH-cam is A-Ok with that.
yeh its not nice, so many tarded rules, youve gotta walk on eggshells all the time, watching what u say and what u show, or they'll allow some channels like news channels to show anything while others get age-restricted for the same clips.. i see people getting shot and dying on some videos, then a quick fight might not be allowed and ive gotta prove im 18
It's communism
@pepperroni4016 lol TH-cam being overly restrictive so they don't run into issues with advertisers is communism? How about you try learning what a word actually means before using it.
Almost all of the youtubers I watch have issues with demonetisation and/or other youtube BS, and that is exactly why Im never giving youtube a single cent, nor am I willing to watch their stupid advertisements.
@Hitmaster8 how can you skip adds without paying for premium?
In “Forrest Gump”, the first warning Lt Dan gives to Bubba and Forrest was “take care of your feet!”. That’s because a soldier who cannot walk needs one or two other soldiers to move, even during a retreat. That’s also why small land mines were developed specifically to cripple, but NOT kill whoever stepped on it. A dead soldier needs no immediate care or any further protection. His fellow soldiers can keep on fighting. But a wounded soldier who cannot walk needs one or two companions just to exit the battlefield. So that one small mine has taken 2-3 combatants out of the fight instead of just one. Foot injury or disease can immobilize or make ineffective a military unit.
Yup!
It's also why "punji boards" got developed. Dig a hole, drop a short length of plank in it with nails randomly spaced, pointing up, and cover with SH*T (specifically), then top with trail dust, debris, and some leaves... sweep it with the rest of the area to remove tracks and traces...
When a soldier's foot lands on the punji, the spikes drive that fecal matter RIGHT up the wound tracts... guaranteeing gangrene if not treated relatively promptly... and in the jungle, deep forest, or other mobilized ground cover... figure the odds of any kind of prompt treatment...
If a human soldier can't walk, he loses a bit more than 80% of his combat efficacy... just like that... pffft. AND boards full of nails, bamboo spikes, small crippling mines... taking 2 or 3 helpers out as well as the one or two "directly hit" is a HELL of a lot cheaper than some big fancy gun or bomb that can knock down a wall or even take out a village you ain't found yet. ;o)
Wow. Did not know or even suspect. Also info in comments here too. War is hell.
As someone who came here to learn about boots, what I have learned in the comments is horrifying. Humans are really messed up...
That’s why Rossiya is so smart and powerful, if you just leave the legless soldiers behind you can carry on forward!
I got trench foot out in the field when I was in the army. It was my first time in the field as an artilleryman. I wasn't supposed to go I had been selected to go to Armorer school but when I got there I was told the limit had been reached so I had to go to the field. I had 5 minutes to pack enough gear for 2 weeks in the field. I rushed to pack so fast I forgot to pack socks. After 8 days in the same socks and sweeting and cold conditions you could smell my foot through my boot. It was horrible. That was 17 years ago and it still has my feet messed up to this day.
8:12 This shot is terrifying. Pushing through a saw blade like *that* is seriously risking your fingers.
its not risking anything considering hes a good 6 inches away from the blade
@@brandenstapleton9641 It's about good practices. I remember the day a guy in our shop cut off his thumb on the band saw. He'd been a carpenter for 20 years without issue.
Even if you're very confident that you can avoid injury, there's *no* reason to do things more dangerously than you have to.
@@brandenstapleton9641 "trust me bro, I know what I'm doing" is often said before something goes wrong
I agree. This is bad technique. "Oh, I'm far enough from the blade" is not an answer if you are in the path of the blade. I noticed the same issue when using the knife at the start to cut the boot. In the path of the knife, but hoping the material would slow its travel.
@@ericeaton2386 did you report his video again? 😂. Everyone is a keyboard hero these days.
How does something like this get age restricted?
Edit: Never expected this many replies with my rhetorical question pointing out the absurdity of *age restricting* the video. Comment upon comment touches on the demonetization and advertisers. That is not what I was pointing out.
Too many bare feet maybe.
Photographs depicting rotten feet with missing toes and exposed bones can scare normies
@@northerndeer2959 How soft does one have to be for this historical piece to be scarring? Hope that person never visits nature...or a farm.
They don't want you to know what the political class has done to Americans, or has in store for you and your kids.
Feet stuff automatically makes it adult content 😊
My brother got trench foot or the beginning of it in Vietnam. His commander saw it and sent him on the evac to the field hospital. Yes, people did die of trench foot in WWI and some in WWII. You can go septic really fast, and before antibiotics, most people died.
As someone who scratched an itch and ended up in the hospital with a patch of skin so swollen it went numb from infection within minutes that doesn’t shock me good news is I also cleared the infection before I actually saw a doctor super strange eye opening experience
My Army career started during the Vietnam war - I was sent to South Korea, thankfully; but, the boots we had back then were absolutely horrible!! Blisters if you walk too far, trench foot issues during monsoon season and frostbite during the winters.
The first antibiotics were introduced in 1910, so there must have been a huge shortage on the front lines and a lot of really unlucky people for it to be 75,000 dying. That said a lot of the salves and poultices prior to 1910 were in later tests found to have antimicrobial properties so it's not like they entirely went without in the previous wars, they just didn't know why certain things worked.
@@nothanks9503 That sounds more like a toxin. Bacteria doesn't move THAT quick.
@@impishrebel5969 Casualty =/=death. Lots of people taken out of the fight, but 75K didn't die of trench foot
I was homeless for a few months 6 years ago. Got terrible trenchfoot one time. My whole foot, top and bottom was bleach white, visibly larger and half-numb. All healed now, but I still have remnants of a long crack on the bottom of my right foot to this day.
Lmao how were you homeless? Drugs?
@@jrsthesedays925 fucking hell mate
@@jrsthesedays925 Being young, poor and right-wing enough for my left-wing family to not help me out.
Thank God I'm out of that rut now.
@@babawill14 glad you got out of that mess homie
@@babawill14 just admit you got kicked out because you were awful to your family lol I see you haven’t changed at all
I had a homeless patient who developed trench foot. He was lucky to save his feet but it was horrifically painful. I'm used to foot wounds being numb like from diabetes and this poor man suffered.
It's pretty horrible either way, but I'd argue that untreated diabetes is worse than trench foot, since it can result in the loss of your fingers, or even your eyesight or hearing. That, on top of feeling miserable all the time because of the systemic effects of diabetes.
I’ve had a mild case of trench foot after spending all day in the ditch with rubber boots full of water catching frogs. It was sooo itchy and the crevices from the wrinkles very sore for a week. I’m glad that it only happened that one time during my childhood.
Same from cheap steel toes when working construction.
Same for me when I've been flyfishing all day in leaking waders and wading boots that are too small. I didn't even know this was a thing but I'm gonna be more cautious in the future and I did get rid of my old wading gear.
Was delayed on a construction project. Went to work at 8 a.m with nice weather so was wearing comfortable shoes instead of workboots, started raining at 10 a.m, finished working at 7 p.m, was taking a shower at 8,30 p.m. My feet were destroyed in a single day way worse than the ones he showed on the picture, the cement with the rain made the skin fracture on the sides of the feet, painful to walk but healed fast once the feet were kept dry. If you were not able to dry your feet i am pretty sure you would be unable to walk in less than a week.
I had it too. My creaces were super deep and painful. I forgot what I was doing to get it but I'll never forget that experience. Ouch
Ive that that before. Forgot what exactly I was doing but yea those foot creases are painful.
thought it was a bunch of cuts.
Note: The term 'casualty' applies to:
KIlled In Action (KIA)
Wounded In Action (WIA)
Missing In Action (MIA)
Non-Battle Injury and
Died of Wounds (DOW - made it to the hospital but later died)
Trench Foot would be a 'Non-Battle Injury' because it was a result of combat operations.
In peacetime people who become missing while acting in the line of duty (such as a missing aircraft) are listed as DSTWN (Duty Status and Whereabouts Unknown)
Would trench food be considered WIA?
@@tamaralaird3389 Non-Battle Injury, as the comment said
@@arctyk2816that's stupid
Why is the last letter in the abbreviation "N" and not "U" for unknown?
@@Benzinilinguine I believe the usual abbreviation is "DUSTWUN", probably shortened to "DSTWN" because "double-u u" is annoying to pronounce?
The historical censorship on this platform is disgusting, and telling.
i don’t know too much about this, why is it disturbing
@@carlosdelgado4872 a company controlling who’s video gets viewed and who’s doesnt is disturbing.
Weird how all these channels who complain about getting age restricted or demonetized never seem to say the reason. Just vague suggestion and innuendo. When Internet Historian pulled a video because he stole other people's work, he did the same thing. "Just fill in the blanks with some oppression fantasy." Is that what happened here? Did the original video get demonetized and restricted for a good reason? Maybe this guy knew someone like you would show up to do hysterical dramatics instead of demanding to know what happened. I would refuse to participate in such performative nonsense, but it's a free country.
@@carlosdelgado4872 It's not disturbing because it's not historical censorship or any kind of censorship. He used a copyrighted clip from another channel in the original video. It was from the BBC. It's not in this one. I don't know if that's why it got demonetized, but the person you're replying to has exactly zero evidence that anything else happened.
These big channels are made rich by the algorithm. Sometimes they steal other people's work. When they get caught, they pretend they are being censored. It's just normal media dishonesty like all the rest.
@@meepk633 have you taken your meds today? If you don’t know why channels like this get demonetized you might have bigger problems outside of TH-cam. Thanks for the essay response? Get help either way.
I was stationed in Germany during my time in ( mid 80s) and saw a few guys suffer from it as well as frostbite . Foot care is key as well as good boots . We were allowed to wear german or any other nato boot over there and i found the french boots to be very good . I bought expensive socks and took care of my feet . American issue boots were inferior in the cold wet German climate . Lots of people are boot junkies but im a sock snob . Good socks will save your feet.
I spend a lot of time in work boots
So I'm a sock enthusiast aswell, i tried it all, spent money i found that merino wool with coolmax works the best in all weather conditions
Completely agree with you on this mate. Trench foot was a problem in the Falklands conflict too. One would have thought we’d have learned from WW1 !! I’m not sure if this story is apocryphal but British soldiers were using “ captured “ argie boots. Not a very satisfactory state of affairs.
@@andygardner9219 I never found any US boot even satisfactory . The jungles cut my ankles to shreds and the issues were horrible in nearly every way , save for maybe traction. I bought a pair of Danners when I rotated back to the states but the unit commander said no non issue boots in my battalion . So I ended up leaving service with a new pair of danners . Still have em . In Europe none of us wore American boots , at least not in the infantry. I’ve heard the falklands have some crazy weather .
Been wearing work boots in heavy construction/welding for 25 years and totally agree about the sock snobbery. But I'm also a boot snob. Pay more up front and get something that works well and lasts.
No. Brit issue DMS (direct molded sole) same as US boots. Don't breath. Wet feet freeze in cold weather. Argentine boots were worse.@@andygardner9219
Thank you for showing us a part of history. This shouldn't be age restricted, it should be archived for the future.
The fact that they won't allow anything related to WW2 era Germany to be viewed in anything other than an evil light, should tell people something. But somehow I doubt that it will. The brainwashing is pretty thorough at this point.
Woke mob doesn't like history
That’s exactly why it got deleted
If we can’t remember the history we’re doomed to repeat it
And who wouldn’t want to destabilize one of the most powerful nations to ever exist
I knew when the slogan "don't be evil' disappeared we were in trouble.
_"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."_
I was a combat medic in the millitary, you would think the health of the soldier was my job but it was not. Just like every piece of equipment in service the soldeir has a task it is fitted for. My job was to get that soldier "combat effective" just like any other tool, vehicle or weapon. Consider the individual soldier as a part of a unit, if that unit needed to march they were expected to all be able to complete that march at a certain pace and considered distance. 99% of my job on marches was feet, the only thing considered more important on a soldier than his feet was his stomach! The army marches on its stomach, the soldier marches on his feet!
What can you give someone whose feet are hurting during an important march? To keep them going however longer they need to walk. I'm serious, opioids for the pain? I mean, what can one do but manage the pain? If he's super tired, is it your job to give him amphetamines? (in order to finish that really important march). Don't mean to be spurious, just curious! :)
@@nisselarson3227it’s a great question.
I had shin splints due to the footwear. Years later my feet are wrecked with plantar fasciitis I’m getting surgery for. I broke my foot in service - I deal with it daily decades later, and 0% of it is considered debilitating from the VA. Go figure.
@@KarsKirai Ouch, that sounds horrible. Sorry to hear. :(
Hey Doc, my arm is cut and bleeding, OK Private here is a bandaid and a packet of APC "All Preventive cure".
LOL Just kidding you doc!
@@KarsKirai I know soldiers are normally not allowed to take off their boots and socks while on duty. But how often did you see it happening around you?
i've been in a wheelchair my whole life.. hell, i dont even wear shoes cuz they are a pain in the ass for me when i transfer out of my wheelchair... but, for sorme reason this was recommended to me and now i find myself on this weird worker boot rabbithole. lol.
TY for teaching me stuff i never knew i needed to know. :)
Also, i had to comment cuz your lil animation of shrinking the dasani bottle, was hilarious.
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yo whats up hotwheels! i almost wound up in a chair young was saved by a 1/4 inch of a table saw. what do you do for fun? do you feel sorry for yourself? depressed blog post me my guy
@@carlmarker9257 in chair since a month shy of 2.. i'm 41... tornado. killed my family , put me in wheelchair.
What do i do for fun? internet n gaming. i like racing n cars.
Do i feel sorry for myself? yes n no. i'm fine being a crip, depression has kicked my ass, n i'm filled w/nothing but social anxiety n fear n rarely leave my house anymore, mainly cuz i cant afford to.
So i live online, dont blog about it. I just go down weird youtube recommended rabbit holes. always look'n to learn something new if possible.
@@carlmarker9257wtf?
My grandfather served in WW1, and I remember my mother telling me about him telling her stories of guys who had trench foot. Thank you for the informative video!
Tolkien was invalided out from the front line with trenchfoot in 1916 and survived WW1, unlike most of his remaining battalion who were killed. Without trenchfoot most likely we would not have any of his writings or his influence on popular culture today.
Served in Germany in the 80's and early 90's and took part in the last NATO cold war exercise in 89. Operation Iron Hammer . . . The first two weeks went well but then a freak cold weather front came in and temperatures dropped to -10 with a wind chill of -25. I have never seen that much snow to this day. As it was unexpected we hadn't been issued artic cold weather clothing but had to continue with the exercise regardless. I wore two pairs of socks and had on the standard issue British army combat assault boot. We were lead up onto a hill side and ordered to dig trenches during a blizzard, the ground was frozen solid, after a couple of hours of digging I took my water bottle out to take a drink and it too was frozen solid as well. By now my feet were not only soaking wet but numb from the cold. In the morning we came off the hill and moved into the forest where our vehicles were. In order to take my boots off I sat up on top of a warrior fighting vehicle while the engine was running and had to sit there with my boots on the exhaust grate's to thaw them out. My boots were frozen solid to my feet. This went on for two weeks and needless to say I developed what was called frost nip a cross between frost bite and trench foot. It was the first night though that done the damage. So I guess what I am saying is its conditions that cause trench foot yes bad boots don't help the cause but freezing temperatures or feet being constantly wet. I took my boots off every morning washed, dried and powdered my feet thawing them out but still suffered badly. It took me 6 weeks to walk properly again and three months to recover fully afterwards. Back then it was hard to get a boot that would keep your foot dry and stop it from sweating. Around 25% of my battalion suffered from the same condition to different degrees. So you could say afterward the battalion lost 25% of its strength. So freezing weather conditions feet being constantly wet and bad leadership at the company commander and battalion commander level caused that misery exactly the same as WW1! some things never change.
A training exersize with a 25% casualty rate should have the commander on charges. That sucks, glad it didn't do permanent damage.
That's pretty insightful to what it's like. That's horrendous, but I thank you for everything
@@seldoon_nemarthings were different back then but agree with you totally. I have nerve damage in my toes and develop a limp slightly when it gets really cold, In the grand scale of things its nothing compared to some veterans. Thanks for your comment.
@@BuzzinVideographyI was 18 years old so it was an adventure. When we got back to camp I soaked my feet in hot water. It was Saturday night and I still hobbled out partying, we got extremely drunk and a good time was had by all. After a big exercise like that we would always have a big piss up. Frost bite a trench foot didn't stop me that weekend. It did every weekend after that though. Thanks for your comment
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I've had to deal with a mild case of trench foot before. We went backpacking and it was basically 45 F or below and raining the entire time we were out there. End of the second day, I took my boots off after basically being damp all day, and all of the skin on the bottom of my foot was pruned and painful to touch. I basically had to sit near the campfire for 3 hours with my feet elevated because putting weight on them or exposing them to cold made the pins and needles worse.
How nice of TH-cam to steal the money you earned.
TH-cam really has gone downhill that educational videos like this would be demonetized or worse removed, great videos keep em up! 👍
Just to maybe answer your curiosity about the term "casualty" (as an Army veteran myself): it is a broad term that can be used to describe the wounded, the sick, and the dead. For those who are among the wounded/sick casualties, it is possible for many of them to return to duty on the front lines after receiving medical treatment. That delineation is why historical documentaries of battles or wars will often denote both x-number of casualties (per day or overall) along with x-number of dead.
insane that youtube did that. channels like this are the reason i even care about this website at all. this is the best content
No advertiser wants to advertise on TH-cam with a bunch of rotting feet. Advertisers are the ultimate source of funding for TH-cam and TH-camrs and what advertisers want is most important.
@@xs10z Manipulating peoples accessibility to historical knowledge for money, yeah this is gonna end well. At least the other extremist groups that have done EXACTLY this had other motives than cold hard cash, TH-cam is worse than them for that in my eyes.
@@xs10z TH-cam takes money from temu and much worse though...
@@xs10zyou can still find companies who would benefit from videos showing nasty images, like rotting feet. For example, someone who produces shoes that supposedly prevents your feet from reaching that state.
@@xs10zhave you seen history channel? They cover this topic. Educational content is a great place to advertise.
That sucks bro, I just subbed finding this reupload so I guess a plus for you!
I was obsessed with WWI a few years ago, but into WWII these days, but this always boggled my mind about how people could walk around in muck for months or years even. I’ve had mild trench foot just doing trail work in January for a day in wet conditions. This is worthwhile investigation in my book.
Thank you for re-uploading. I always like seeing the inside of each boot in detail, and I appreciate that you give the Why behind each material
This is the first video I've watched of yours and I'm astonished at the amount of effort and resources you put into sharing this info. Thank you
Trench foot had a major effect on all of the combatant armies on the western front, including the British, French, and Germans. It was the conditions in the trenches far more than the boot itself being at fault. When you are standing in mud, just about any combat boot is going to fail you. Even when I was in the Marines, the military had to issue a boot we called the "Jungle boot" to deal with the problem of feet getting sweaty and my own experience in indo-China was that the Jungle Boot was a huge improvement over the all leather boot, but you still had to carry a couple of pairs of dry socks. The modern combat boots appear to be an evolution of that early design and I am sure that they are superior in every way, but being an old school Marine, I still carry some dry socks when I go on long hike.
Yes the first thing I thought is that it was extremely unfair to blame the boot. They could have had the finest quality boots of the time and it wouldn't have helped much at all with trench foot
Homeless people are often good first line responders for what works and what doesn’t. We know that blood draw facilities treasure the blood of homeless people due to immunity strength buildup in their immune systems. From my 1985 times out in tenderloin district of San Francisco!
Hey thanks for your service man
@@XxxXxx-br7eqDid you actually listen to the content in the video? He explains very clearly and specifically why this boot made matters worse in the conditions encountered in the trenches. That was the whole point of the video, so I'm not sure how you missed it. Something that increases the likelihood and the severity of a problem is generally considered worse than something that reduces them.
@@another3997 it's easy to go back now and retrospectively say hey these are all the things that were terrible about the boot but the fact is at that time with that technology no matter what boot they would have made it would have been just as bad
Here in Finland we use rubber boots in army. Only during dry season we use regular service boots in training environment.
TH-cam needs competitors. Their level of capitulation for ad revenue has surpassed an appropriate level.
Especially since we used to be able to play music & videos with the app closed and pre buffer the entire video (so no interruptions waiting to load), for free! I mean…. I knew they were gunna add advertising at some point but 15-30 second unskippable ads is just silly.
They just took so much away to put behind a pay wall. It’s annoying.
@@ModelsAtWar 15-30 seconds? Man, you must be lucky. I have see ads that literally last about 18 minutes. Often longer than the video I was watching.
There are competitors but people don't use them. Also how do you make functional business? You add ads, people come with adblock, you make only paid membership and you don't get viewers, you make paid hosting and you don't get content creators.
Rumble is a good one.
Almost like there was a recent political movement that was against all of this.
That's why Finnish infantry has separate rain boots and winter boots. Both are used with thick felt liners, in addition to the double socks worn even with standard boots.
wool is always the answer
My feet started hurting as soon as you showed the inside of that boot and how stiff that leather my toes also shed tears when I saw examples of shoes before this design... also from what ive seen about WWI the people who issued this boot probably did not care if it worked or was uncomfortable until they had enough cases of trench foot to where it was "hurting the war effort on the front"
The issue is more that "we need 1 million pairs of boots right now!" When you suddenly need to produce at those levels the quality suffers, because there just arent enough skilled people to do it. Especially when you also need 1 million rifles, 2 million pairs of pants, 2 million shirts etc etc, _all at the same time_ while grabbing those same skilled people, and sending them to the front.
They could have the most cautious, humane, people in charge imaginable and the result would still have been the same.
My Grandfather served in WW1, in France (artilleryman and sniper). The winter of 1916 was so cold that they could not take their boots off to sleep, otherwise the sweat in the leather would freeze meaning they could not get them back on in the morning without the leather cracking.
Its easy to blame the leaders. It means you dont have to burden yourself with knowledge.
"My toes shed tears"
Thanks for that mental image
Omgoodness I winced when he got to the band saw and how he was holding the boot open looked like he was gonna cut his hand in half.
Same
Absolute best boot channel on the internet. Highly valuable info. I hope things are onward and upward for you.
My grandfather was in one of the first AEF units in France, and had that boot. I know he had that boot because he had two pairs when I was a kid. One he had resoled without hobnails, and one still had the hobnails that he wore when he went out to farms to work. I think it was easy to blame the boot, it was considered too expensive at the time and was seen as a boondoggle. The troops in the trenches, were in trenches and rain seeks the lowest point which turned out to be trenches. Because the fighting was so heavy in most areas, getting out of one trench and going to another place to use the bathroom wasn't safe so... 'la trine' or 'the trench' was the default bathroom. So, standing in a foot of sewer water for days will cause trench foot.. like my grandfather got, he lost toes to trench foot, immersion foot, frost bite.... and his lower legs looked like he already had two feet in the grave. Now, what does trench foot and frost bite do in the long run? beyond the war? I was in the Navy for 20, and yeah I had a bit of trench foot and frost bite.... it messes up your feet's circulation long run so sometimes I feel them and sometimes it feels like I'm wearing overly tight boots.
Interesting. Just to be sure though, 'latrine' does not mean 'the trench'.
Seeing you cut the boot open I was so concerned that you might slip and hurt yourself. You pulled the knife towards your hand and pushed your hand towards the band saw. This boot is 100 years old and, you said yourself, that you didn't know what was inside. If the materials had given way you would seriously hurt yourself. Please be careful in future. Otherwise, this was a great video. Well done.
@@Loveroflife5.0.That's why i wear eye protection every time i go machete fencing
I never wear protection, that’s how you get a real feel for things. Intimacy in everything you do.
Fully agree, that saw scene made me cringe! Scared the sh%t out of me!
@@markhoffmanreal genius thinking right here
fr watching him cut that boot looked so unsafe 😭 was distracted for like the rest of the video watching it
The edit of that water bottle at 11:10 was a touch of genious xD
These historical shoe/boot videos are my absolute favorites! Seeing what people used and learning the stories behind them is so awesome! Thank you so much for doing this! Ps: please please please do the 1918 boot!
The fact that they won't allow anything related to WW2 era Germany to be viewed in anything other than an evil light, should tell people something. But somehow I doubt that it will. The brainwashing is pretty thorough at this point.
I got a rotten case of this messing about with the army when I was a cadet in German forests about 1992.
It was horrible, stunk of ammonia, and was very painful, I had pieces of skin coming off in sheets, weeping fluids. My feet were so itchy and hot on top on the pain.
Decades later my feet are still prone to problems, that fungus gets in DEEP and treating it daily for weeks still doesn't shift it all.
No way you are tabbing miles with a pack when you have bad 'immersion foot'.
I was just lucky I didn't get secondary infections and septicemia.
Ask a doctor for antifungal pills. They are stronger than creams you put on you feet.
Great analysis of the boot. I always knew intuitively that no leather boot would do well if immersed in water for long periods of time...and in the case of WWI trench warfare, days if not weeks at a time...WW1 raised human misery to a level and scale never experienced before in warfare and the shortcomings brought out on what normally would be considered well-made leather boots was just another evidence of this new reality.
Great video, man. It’s beyond ridiculous the original was demonetized and age restricted.
I liked the original cut of this but glad you left both version up. I wore a pair of timberland a1fzp boots for 5.5 months for 12 hours 4-5 days a week and the moisture getting trapped lead to a lot of painful calluses that eventually flaked off.
Thanks for covering this boot. One of my favorites too. It was close to the French boot in design but not sure of construction. it would be nice to compare them. 30 years in the Army tells me there was no way out for the GIs . They were just in water all the time and the boots couldn't dry out because you had no place or time to dry them out... until you were taken off the line. Rubber boots could help but often the mud and water was so deep the boots would get submerged...hip waders would not be good in an attack .. and I doubt there were enough pairs to help much . This is still a problem for a modern Army as you know from your jungle boot video.
You will never stay dry in serious weather. Coat your feet in wax, wear good quality wool socks, and wear footwear with good drainage. Andrew Skurka teaches this technique. He circumnavigated Alaska on foot and knows how to deal with wet feet.
Ran into this in my own military career. Was stationed out at Schofield Barracks, HI. Went to the Kahuku’s for what was supposed to be a two week field problem.
Rained for the first four days and guys started developing trench foot. One of the few times in my 21 year career as an infantryman that training had to actually be canceled. Trench foot is no joke.
That's what I would have done back in WW1. Cancel my combat and not give a shit what anyone said. Lock me up.
@@ebogar42And be shot and killed?
Hell yeah! I was in the 65th Eng Battalion!
@@nathueil1 I was in 1-14, which no longer exists. They cased the colors when they swapped back to light brigades. Not sure who thought it was a great idea to make a Stryker brigade in the middle of the Pacific, but it played out about how it sounds…lol.
The people at TH-cam have taken an absolute awesome platform and systematically and intentionally destroyed it. I don’t know what their agenda is but it’s definitely not in favor of the content creators. Sad.
Appeasing progressive liberals who want censorship on platforms. That is their agenda.
I went on a 2 week hike/canoeing adventure in the Snowy Mountains in Victoria/NSW Australia. I got trench foot. Oh my godddddddd. I was lucky it was a leisure experience, and that I had access to first aid and fire to help dry out my feet and shoes/socks. Still had to hike though, it happened half way through it all. But those soldiers.. they had none of that. No safety or choice. Edit: the bottoms of both my feet were waterlogged with river water and essentially just giant blisters, skin sloughing off in places as well. It mostly occurred on the bottom surface areas (in their entirety). Happened only after a few hours of hiking in wet shoes.
My father ( ex army) reckoned you could write a whole book on the English army and boots. Everything from gumboots being issued in the desert through to the boer war where someone decided to put all left boots on one ship and right boots in another. The logic being that if the Boers captured a ship, the boots would be useless. Of course, one of the ships got sunk - doh. Dunno if anyone has a reference to this yarn or not😊
Armies are the same everywhere... when you're in the army logic and common sense flies out of the window ahahahah
o, its not only the army you know 🙃@@christoforospaphitis4090
Oh God. That sounds like Army logic. 🫡
Completely overlook the scenario where the logistics are then useless to us as well...
Officer's boots had a left and right but, other soldiers boots during the Boer war were both the same, no separate left and right models. So unless the ships were full of officer's boots, I'd have to say the story is BS. 😁
One might assume that trench foot is no longer a major problem, since it's so well known and we know its causes. However, it's still relatively easy to get in certain climates. Here in Finland we have universal male conscription and, given our climate, trench foot is a real problem. Maintaining our health is an important part of basic training and trench foot is one of the first things we learn to avoid, since getting your feet damp, even through rubber boots, is unfortunately unavoidable and just a matter of time. Wet feet also leaves you very vulnerable to frostbite during the winter. Thus, trench foot is extremely dangerous, even today.
Apart from the prevention methods mentioned in the video, we also used newspapers in a method we call kenkäheinä aka shoehay. It's an old trick that, as far as I know, was invented by the Sami people. You simply place pages of newspapers/hay beneath your insoles and replace them as they start to get wet. The newspapers/hay also functions as an insulative layer, making it an useful trick for cold climates.
Makes me wonder whether a Roman Military sandal, at least as a backup, might not be the best footwear. Yes you foot will get wet instantly but it will also dry quickly.
One time as a kid I went out to play in the cold.
I have hyperhidrosis and sweat heavily via my feet.
My feet were sweaty in my winter boot, my sock had slid down and some melted snow trickled down the top of the boot.
My toes were so cold I couldn’t feel they but kept playing because I was a silly kid.
It took hours for my feet to defrost
They were patchy white and red and it hurt to walk for a few days
That’s as close to trench foot as I would like to get
I think it’s time for your ladies to be conscripted or perhaps they can at least take their bag off the seat on the train
I'm 5 years removed from the military and I have remains from my trench foot, so much calious that hasn't gone away at all
Trench foot was still a problem in 1982 for british forces in the Falklands, the DMS direct moulded soles constantly failed. Special forces didn’t use them and a lot of Royal Marines & Paras relied on private purchased boots with gaiters or the rubber NBC overboots to try and stop water ingress. The terrain was wet, constant marshland, with few opportunities to get the boots off & feet & socks dried/changed.
Even now the issue boots Haix are pretty much disliked by most, with second hand altbergs being much sought after.
Waterproof sealskinz socks have been issued, but by that point the boot is already full of water.
RAMC 83-86. My training corporal from para clearing troop in Falklands, had bad trench foot. Many did.During Lionheart and snow queen pretty bad boots. 4/5 lace hole could not be laced as it cut deep into top of foot and I do mean deep.
I've had a, not as sever but close, case of trench foot, it was one of the worst things I've experienced. I still have lasting effects from having it about 17 years ago.
Hello, do you mind me asking what the symptoms were ? How did you know you had it ? Does it come from just having wet shoes ?
@@lovejumanji5 it comes from having wet shoes and socks for more than a few days, and not having the opportunity to get dry shoes and socks. So pretty much like soaking and grinding your feet in mud and grime for about a week.
@@jasonsummit1885 Thank you.
And your feet probably smell really bad very quickly from this. My dad's feet atin and he was in sviet army and these guys back then were bragging who's feet stink the most. They didn't even had socks thenm but piece of clothing
To be fair, in WW1 western front conditions, every shoe would give you trench foot... fun fact, one big reason the Roman Soldiers wore 'Caligula' (military sandal boots).
This. Foot problems in ww1 were pretty endemic and not because of one particular welt design or construction technique. They did the best with the materials they had.
@@Christian762realistically could they have been better off with essentially crocs with shoelaces to keep them from falling off. Seems like if it's impossible to stop the foot getting wet might as well have it always draining.
@@lukasg4807it was usually too cold and you have to remember they were expected to March across no man’s land with mines, shrapnel, rotting corpses all in between. I don’t think you’d want a more open shoe in these conditions despite the drawbacks of a closed design. Also frostbite was a big issue and it’s even worse when your feet are wet constantly
@@anon2427 It could be re-enforced sandals, I've seen some, construction workers in some places use them. It's like regular reinforced shoes with steel toes and steel inside, but with opening on the side. And nothing would help you, if you step on mines. lol
The Roman soldiers would not have worn caligae if they fought in the trenches on the western front. Open shoes or sandals will not prevent trench foot if you're standing in a a couple feet of mud and water.
Great. Video! My uncle served in WWI and warned dad when he was called up to serve in WWII.
I received trench foot in the army at fort Benning Georgia in 1990. It has never completely healed and still bothers me. Very painful , skin comes off in chunks. We had the black leather boots with tire tread soles.
Mine was Germany.
I can't totally shift it either 30 years later. Boy did it hurt
My grandfather acquired trench foot in the pacific during ww2. Suffered with it for the rest of his life. Also came home from war with dentures as most of his teeth rotted out of his head in the jungle.
Why would his teeth rot?
@@Hatesmostofyou27
Lack of vitamin C in some rations, or somebody not drinking the sugary powdered drink with vitamin C in it. He may have served right before that got figured out.
@@Hatesmostofyou27I think just being in a hot humid environment and the lack of quality food and dental care contributed to his tooth loss
I’m happy the rewatch this, as this was a great video. I like these historical videos of on boots. Does TH-cam provide any feedback on why they do this? Do you need to cite sources etc. I’ll keep an eye our for that colab. I would guess a Falcon-like boot on the Munson last. In a waxed or roughout leather.
hell yeah. i'm really impressed by the editing here. thanks for sharing
I like history, but I NEVER thought I'd find the history of a boot to be as interesting as this vid was--definitely watching more boot videos! LOL
But I think I have some experience of trench foot...due to bad luck and/or poor decisions, I found myself sleeping in my car, in winter, in Denver, CO. I was wearing military surplus army boots that I almost never took off--b/c it was cold! So, yeah, by the end, the skin was peeling bad and my feet smelled like death.
After recovering from all that, I went back to the army surplus store and got some Jungle boots. Of course, I didn't spend another winter in my car to see if they were significantly better, so I'll just have to watch your Jungle boot vid!
Can you tell the story of French boots of 1812 that caused the issues for the Great Army on its retreat from Moscow and eventually for the demise of Napoleon?
Ooh I like this comment.
Would like to have this as well. Just the problem of finding a boot of this vintage for the vid. These need a real visual of the boot and able to take them apart for a examination of the problems in the use of the boot.
@@eingames9931 reenactors may have a source or 99% accurate replicas.
Awesome video. Your videos are what led me to my first pair of LL Bean boots that have lasted me every fall, winter and spring since.
Since then I've become a fish processor. It was interesting to hear you talk about trench foot something that we have to worry about pretty regularly. I would love to see you do a video on why Alaskans love Xtratuffs so much!
Was delayed on a construction project. Went to work at 8 a.m with nice weather so was wearing comfortable shoes instead of workboots, started raining at 10 a.m, finished working at 7 p.m, was taking a shower at 8,30 p.m. My feet were destroyed in a single day way worse than the ones you showed on the picture, the cement with the rain made the skin fracture on the sides of the feet, painful to walk but healed fast once the feet were kept dry. If you were not able to dry your feet i am pretty sure you would be unable to walk in less than a week.
Have pictures of my grandfather in this exact boot prior to departing to France in late 1917/early 1918. Never knew they swapped these out due to the problems you pointed out. OTH, own a pair of 25+ year old Chippewa Munson last boots that other than a couple of resoles are still going strong and can walk all day in them. So they got it half right I guess. The Munson fit is great if you have “paddle feet” which runs in my family.
Nobody really has the pointy feet that so many shoe and bootmakers imagine humans have.
@@theundergroundlairofthesqu9261 there’s wide,feet then there’s EEE/EE feet (me). 😂
Reposting and slightly revising my comment from the original video:
Although this particular model of boot was only worn for a year by the US military, it was copied from a French boot that was worn essentially unchanged from 1897 to the Algerian war in the 1960s. Regarding the 1918 boot, I do not think there were any major construction differences, the changes were more concerned with making them more durable (triple instead of double sole, extra stitching and rivets on the heels, giant metal toe plate)
The half sole and nailed heels rather than heel plate also make me think this pair may have been depot refurbished. Here are a few official orders pertaining to the care and repair of feet and footwear:
HQ, AEF
France, December 7, 1917
Bullentin, No. 13
I. The following instructions for the repair of shoes are published for the information and guidance of all concerned:
1. Soles of shoes should be renailed with hobnails as soon as the original ones are worn down close to the leather.
2. The old nails should not be remoned but new nailes should be placed between the old ones.
3. Square head Cabosh nails will be used in repairing heels instead of replacing the heel plates. This will require about 40 nails to a pair of heels. Cabosh nails will be supplied by quartermaster depot on requisition. (6631-A. G. O)
GHQ, AEF
France, January 24, 1918
Bulletin, No. 5
1. Division and other Quartermasters will carefully collect all beef tallow not absolutely necessary for use of troops and send it to the nearest Quartermaster Depot, from which place it will be forwarded weekly to the Salvage Depot, at St. pierre-des-Corps, Indre et Loire.
2. Empty vinegar, oil, or other similar barrels may be used for this purpose.
3. This tallow is to be used for making Dubbin for the preservation of shoes.
from GO No 11, January 17, 1918 (these orders covered an an increase in certain ration items during the winter, collisions between autos and motor bikes and trench foot)
GO 11, IV 4 (e ) That the feet of all are vigorously rubbed at least once each day and perferably with some animal fat such as tallow or whale oil.
GO 11, IV 9 Foot powders and the various oils, greases or ointments to be used in the prevention and treatment of "Trench Foot" and other diseases of the foot will be furnished by the Medical Department. The necessary supplies for application to boots, shoes, etc., will be supplied by the Quartermaster Corps.
Very informative comment, merci!
I don’t know if it would count as “trench foot” but once as a kid I went on a three day camping trip with my dad and his friends and I remember my shoes and socks being wet for at least two days of it. My feet looked nearly as bad as that but not bad enough to require medical treatment. My poor dad lost some hearing when my mom got done yelling at him though😅
SAME, but had it for a week and was embarrassed to tell anyone and said i had a blister. walking funny and very painful, lucky it cleared up on its own.
Back in the day (60's) as a Boy Scout (no, never heard or experienced any of issues now in the news) we did a lot of hiking and overnights. Great experience. However, I was always amazed at what kids wore to walk in and keep warm. Hikes were typically only a day thing with the usual complaints of blisters, sore legs and aching backs. But, then it was over. The real issues usually happened on camp-outs. Boots (or often, just sneakers), clothes, coats, and sleeping bags would get wet. I remember steam coming off of my boots set up around the campfire. We always had at the very minimum 2 adults on camp-outs. And occasionally kids would be driven home if their situation got questionable.
Yea I've definitely woken up a few times to see my boots completely frozen while mountain climbing, my old boots I used were so bad Idk why I trusted them for snow. My feet always went numb after an hour or two in the snow and night in the tent was when they would painfully defrost.
TH-cam sucks
Preach
PRAISE the lord!
And yet here we are…
Why?
@@clarencep90He explains why at 0:00
I can only speak as a Soldier from the 80's in the UK. We was always polishing our boots, I never really thought much about it till I was on my first Exercise (Maneuvers) which just happened to be wet and based in what seem like a river bed or swamp. Our boots acted like rubber boots. All that oily polish acted like waterproofing. Plus the soles and construction of the boots were completely different than those WW1 boots. Also I hear today the boots in The British Army are not as good as the ones we had, cost savings I guess.
I’d imagine oil isn’t breathable, so didn’t your feet sweat like hell in those oiled up boots though?
@@EscapePlan97 Not really the top of the boots seem to act like airing.
Incredible video! I love these historical boot videos, extremely informative and interesting.
First time watching. Thanks for reuploading! Something felt off and I couldn't put my finger on it, until about one-third of the way through the video when I realised it was the images I assume you used to replace the old, accurate ones. It's reassuring to know children of all ages can now watch you dissect a combat boot and talk about mass death and amputations without having to learn what a diseased foot looks like. Another TH-cam parenting win.
this is so sad that you got demonitazed, thank you for the work
I remember reading that the Austro-hungarian forces during WW1 were using boots with cardboard soles, in the mountains, in the winter. If you find those it would be pretty interesting to watch what the heck were they thinking.
If it was late in the war I'd say it was materials shortages; if it was at the start I've got nothing. I do like these historic footwear videos, hope he does US Civil War Brogues at some point.
Cheap
It's a good thermal insulator but still has decent ventilation, so your feet don't get too wet.
Plus it's very cheap
@nathangamble125 and when your feet inevitably let out some sweat and the sweat seaps into the cardboard which itself begins disintegrating? A cardboard sole could hardly last a day.
@@nathangamble125 maybe, but Austro-Hungary... Mountains, snow, cold and... cardboard soles? terrible idea
Casualty doesn’t mean death, it means injured to the point you can no longer serve. So KIA is a casualty, but a casualty doesn’t necessarily mean you died.
I'm disappointed someone doing a video on this couldn't figure out how the term casualty is used - especially a history channel.
True a man lost to an STD is a casualty whether he dies or not.
@@FroisonControl A causalty is a soldier/sailor who is unable to do his job.
For any and all reasons, NJP, auto injury, etc.
Why would they call it “Killed in Action” if you aren’t killed?
casualties and KIA are different.
I got trench foot. An older doctor told me that he hadn’t seen this since Nam’
Worked doing HVAC in a semi flooded crawl space for ten hours a day 7 days a week at a job site that required steel toe boots (not uncommon ) After two months of this I was in the tub and just yanked a toenail off. The rest followed suit not long after. My feet reeked and the boots was worse.
gotta get swamp boots that are steel toe for sites like that
When you mentioned about how leather has historically been used for shoes but nowadays we use rubber boots for wet conditions, its worth noting that historically farmers etc used wooden clogs and such for exactly this problem, leather allows moisture to seep in when working in a wet field
History should never be censored, it is there for everyone to learn from.
There's been all sorts of crap like this; I know that Forgotten Weapons had probs when showing historically-accurate German flags from a period that YT has deemed ... too historic to see or some nonsense.
Nobody learns from history lol
CAN ELON BUY YOU TUBE ALREADY?
I'm a High School teacher and a WW1 expert. I love the video. Thank you. I'm sure my grandfather used this boot in early US entry into WW1. He made it through but I love to see his troubles.
I was homeless for 8 years after I got out of the army, no trench foot during the time in the army lol, but OMG! I can’t even begin to tell you how god awful and painful it is. If you want to help someone homeless, SOCKS! They will love you, I promise!
and never double sock in the winter as it will cause your feet to sweat and get frostbite.
@@invalidaccount2315yup, dress in layers. You don't want to sweat at all in the cold, especially if you don't have lots of water to drink, and you're lost somewhere.
I find the topics you choose to speak on are very informative and interesting 👍
After Marine Corp bootcamp, I was sent to MCT (Marine Combat Training), which is 17 days in the field. After these 17 days, parts of both of my feet were numb for about 5 years, and I get athlete's foot once a year. This has been 25 years effect of 17 days in the field.
I cant even imagine. Thank you for your service🙏
I think i got it from being a bike messenger by wearing waterproof socks for a few weeks.
Ive spent much of my life outdoors and have had a helluva time keeping it surpressed over the past 25 years. If i step in stagnant water in the bush, i have about 3 hours to find a place to get off my feet before things start happening.
I rarely wear socks twice and buy fresh packs every week. I tend to view socks as bandages more than clothing. Lol
"I rarely wear socks twice and buy fresh packs every week."
WTF have you never heard of a washing machine?
@@nathangamble125 I have a choice. Poison my feet with cleaning agents in attempts to subdue fungi or simply get rid of it.
Not sure how thats a difficult choice.
@@andrewbrown6522literally no one else has this issue. Maybe see a doctor
@@andrewbrown6522non bio detergent doesn’t work?
@@LiClan Not sure what that is. Chemical cleaners?
Fascinating boot. I wonder if and/or how British, German, French boots were better than the American boots vis a vis trench foot. Like you I also wonder what changes were made to the replacement boot to improve performance in the trench warfare environment.
You read my mind. Good questions.
You learn something new every day I didn't expect trench foot to be this bad. I only expected it to be like what happens if you swim in a pool for several hours or something because it looks about the same, I had no idea it was such a dangerous condition.
@8:18 dont do this while using band saws
Seriously! That was anxiety-inducing to watch.
Love your dedication to this Weston, I feel like a lot of people would be discouraged from the amount of videos you’ve had flagged because of history. Keep it up ma
Casualties apply to injuries and
“K I A”
I'd never drive anything marked KIA
I missed the first one but holy hell, I had no idea. Video was well done, I loved the insight and the style of those boots looks so good. Some modern updates on that would be a killer office/general use boot.
What really caused Trench foot (btw I had to write a 3 page paper just on trench foot) is Luke cold mud. The germs as well as grit mud has brings a constant rough rub on the bottom of the foot. the wrinkles we see when we stay in water to long also make our foot very soft and makes the skin very fragile, thus, creating cracks and once hidden skin layers open to the environment.
Really hate this modern trend of people, govt, and companies trying to control information people share... Especially when it's history! History is rarely, if ever, pretty, but it's fascinating and useful to learn from as well.
Keep these videos up, just recently found your channel and it's fantastic and this series is a lot of fun to watch.
Always has been like this
the person or people who were issued this shoe definitely had a bad time. even if they didn’t get trench foot, even if they didn’t die; they definitely saw death up close and a lot of it. the past was the worst
Present aint better dude. Always be prepared.
@@loremipsum962civil war 2 electric boogaloo
Get ready!
@@loremipsum962 Europe is better now that it was 1917.
@@strengthandbulkMadness 😬
watching you destroy the boot hurt me physically
TH-cam censorship is downright ridiculous. I remember the days where people were free to say and post what they wanted.
it wasnt censored. it was demonetized
The primary media platform in our culture shouldn't be one that says "no controversial topics because we refuse to moderate." TH-cam is abdicating responsibility in a way that only dissuades those with positive intent.
0:25 oh, they are showing history. It just has to be their version of the history.
I once went on a 9 day hiking across mountains, and for 5 days I was socking wet in my boots, which caused severe pain when I walked. It was like my feet got torn up, but still felt like intact. Used lots of bandages to ease the pain. Never knew of that until watching the video.
Your safety on the bandsaw is so bad ! Please use wood to push the boot,
Bro. I dont even do woodwork or whatever but the way he was handling that boot?? I just saw a soft spot waiting for him to drive his hand and cut it in two. Oof cutting tools givd me so much anxiety and I think for the better. 😂
I'm always extra safe around such
I was getting freaked out. My cousin cut off a couple of fingers last year.
But that may hurt your benis 😢
No
My butthole puckered. I fuckin used to cut lumber with a 1980s radial arm saw that would hit some hard grain or something and shoot the saw towards my midsection and the stop that was on the radial arm was broke. Lawsuit waiting to happen.
sorry why was your video deleted ?
I feel like I narrowly avoided trench foot many times as a teen wearing converse all through Canadian winters 😂
I feel like frostbite would hit you first
@@geechyguy3441 on some days. But we have super slushy winters here in southern Ontario!
@@LaceBlood You'd probably get both if you weren't wearing some wool
When I was in Marine Corps boot camp in 2016, we had these boots, which we were issued as Rat Boots, and they caused us temporary loss of feeling in our toes. Thankfully, when I had the first chance to buy new boots in MCT, the feeling slowly returned over the rest of my service till 2020.
There are videos on YT and Twitch that literally stream nudity, and somehow content like this is removed. Horrible. Keep up the good work guys!
YOU CUT 65K IN HALF?!?!?!?
I never new i would be interested by this! Very cool and educational video, the editing and sound are great