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The Horrors of WWI Artillery

Artillery is responsible for 70% of all casualties in World War I, and over a century later, unexploded shells from that war are still killing people. This video covers the full history of how artillery evolved from Chinese fire lances to the devastating guns of the Western Front, where roughly 1.5 billion shells were fired across four years of fighting. We explore how the French 75mm field gun revolutionized warfare with rapid fire, how German Big Bertha siege howitzers destroyed fortresses that were supposed to hold for months, and why the shell crisis of 1914 transformed entire economies into ammunition factories. You'll learn how different shell types worked—high explosive, shrapnel, and poison gas, and why dud rates as high as 30% left hundreds of millions of unexploded munitions buried in the ground. The video also covers the brutal reality of life under bombardment, from the development of sound ranging and creeping barrages to the psychological devastation of shell shock that affected over 250,000 men. We break down infamous battles like Verdun, the Somme, and Passchendaele, where artillery turned entire landscapes into moonscapes of overlapping craters. Chapters: 0:00 A War That's Still Not Over 1:46 The Gun That Changed Everything 3:43 Nobody Knew These Existed 11:07 What Each Shell Actually Did 24:36 What This Did to the Human Body