Usually they write that these are two colliding bullets from the Battle of Gallipoli, 1915-16. Very unusual item!

But can such a case actually exist? Let's try to figure it out...-

Many have already seen on the Internet two bullets collided in flight.

Reportedly, these are the bullets of the times Crimean War- French and Russian - found during excavations.

This option and they succeeded.

But what about our case? Let's start by remembering what the Battle of Gallipoli is.

The Battle of Gallipoli, also known as the Dardanelles operation, was one of the bloodiest in the First World War.

By February 1915 fighting fought on all fronts of the First World War. Ottoman Empire, which was called the "sick man of Europe", continued to resist the Entente countries. Sometimes it was quite bitter - it was an insult to the European powers, which by the beginning of the 20th century turned out to be the catalyst for the final stagnation of the once mighty empire. The last straw was British refusal to transfer dreadnoughts to the Ottomans"Reshadiye" and "Sultan Osman I", for the purchase and equipment of which the Turks laid out literally the last money.

The strategic decision not to give up the ships was made by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill. In February 1915, he decided that it was time for the Europeans to recapture Istanbul.

Although Istanbul itself was not needed by anyone. Over the centuries, first Constantinople, and then its renamed reincarnation, many have tried or dreamed of taking possession of the straits. The Bosphorus and the Dardanelles connect the Aegean Sea with the Sea of ​​Marmara, and it with the Black Sea.

All this might not have happened, but Churchill finally became convinced of the need to capture the straits after the Russians asked for it. And they did this due to the fact that the fighting against Turkey on the Caucasian front became more complicated: the Ottomans tried to involve them in the war against Russian Empire Persia and Afghanistan.

If to speak plain language, then taking advantage of the fact that the Ottoman sultan was also the caliph, the Turks tried to declare jihad to Russia and call on these countries to fight it.

The Allies saw this and decided not to hesitate. The operation began on February 19, when the ships of the Anglo-French fleet entered the strait and began bombarding the Ottoman forts. By that time, the forts had been significantly fortified, and mines were placed on the water around them.

The shelling continued for several hours, but did not cause significant damage to the Turkish fortifications. The operation stopped for almost a week, but mines now prevented the landing. After several meetings, it was decided to conduct a general attack.

However, the Entente again failed - at first the ships ran into the mines that the Ottomans had laid in the dead of night. And then the massive shelling began.

It was decided to act differently - to land a ground assault on the Gallipoli Peninsula, which would capture the forts and open the way to Istanbul. Since there were not enough forces, Great Britain sent Australians and New Zealanders to fight. The Dardanelles operation became for them both a baptism of fire and one of the main tragedies. In total, 81 thousand people took part in the ground operation on the part of the Entente. True, it was decided to resume the operation only on April 25.

The landing in all directions quickly turned into a bloodbath. The British and French were not saved even by the support of the Russian landing cruiser Askold, which came to their aid. It is symbolic that after the revolution, the British will requisition this ship, rename it Glory IV, and then sell it in a deplorable state Soviet Russia, which Germany will have to pay in order to dispose of the once excellent ship.

On April 25 alone, more than 18,000 Entente soldiers were killed. The losses of the Turks were several times less.

Surprisingly, the fighting continued until August 1915. At the same time, it was not the British and French themselves who took part in them. In addition to the Australians and New Zealanders mentioned, the Senegalese, Algerians, and Indians fought. Now flaring up, then fading, the operation was completed in January 1916. According to rough estimates, the Entente killed 250 thousand people. Approximately the same number of deaths were from the Ottoman Empire.

Churchill resigned and, after some deliberation, went to Western Front. And Russia continued to hope that it would still get the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. But looking at what happened to the allies, she was not particularly in a hurry to implement these plans.

In such a bloody battle, could such a structure have arisen from bullets colliding in flight? Definitely not. Rather, the design could have arisen, but not from flying bullets. And that's why.

There are no marks from the cutting of the barrel on the bullet that was pierced, therefore it was not fired at. Most likely it was a whole cartridge (in a machine-gun belt, in a rifle, a box of cartridges) into which a bullet hit. The sleeve was removed and the composition was exhibited in the museum.

How do you think? Correct conclusion?

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In 2009, pictures of an unusual artifact of the Crimean War appeared on the Internet.

Almost immediately, a romantic version of “Russian and French bullets collided in the air” was born in online comments, the photos were repeatedly replicated in the Russian-speaking segment and even appeared on the dailymail.co.uk website (without reference to the author of the find and photos). However, the proposed version is most likely erroneous - certainly not "Russian" and not "in the air."

Analysis. Stage 1

The chance of a bullet colliding in mid-air is much less than the chance of hitting a bullet at rest. For bullets to collide in flight, they must be at the same point at the same time; if one of the bullets is at rest, then the second can crash into it at any time. Concentrated fire is often directed at the same area of ​​the ground surface, but at the same time, all the bullets that hit a given place had different trajectories - that is, the probability of collisions is sharply concentrated in the area where the fire is being fired. A resting bullet can be either an unused enemy bullet lying on a parapet or in a cartridge bag, or one's own, fired earlier and stuck in soft ground or a sandbag and therefore avoided severe destruction.

In the photographs presented, only one of the bullets is visible in sufficient detail - the French Tamizier bullet. Judging by the dent on the bottom, it flattened itself against the rod with the blows of a ramrod - which means it most likely flew out of the barrel. About the second bullet, we can only say that it is close to the first in mass and also has three circular belts - it is very likely that this is also a Tamizier bullet. Of the more or less common Russian bullets, only the Peters (Belgian) bullet is approximately suitable for these signs, but it has a wider belt closest to the bottom and the walls are so thin that they would be torn to shreds in a collision.

Obviously, to test our hypotheses, we need to look at the bottom of bullet #2.

Analysis. Stage 2

We conclude: the second bullet is also Tamizier, there are no other candidates with a flat bottom and three belts.
Did bullet #2 fly out of the barrel or was it intact before impact?

Let's compare bottoms. Bullet No. 1 has a clearly visible trace of the pin on which it flattened on a fairly smooth bottom. Bullet No. 2 has a different rear end - it is covered with numerous small dents and is evenly concave. It can be assumed that this bullet was in the ground at the time of the collision, the particles of which were imprinted on the surface. If two bullets of the same type collided in the air, their deformations would be approximately the same. However, it is noticeable that in bullet No. 2, after the collision, the bottom of the lead probably slowed down on the ground, the extreme layers of lead moved more strongly, and the bottom acquired a concave shape. The trace from the pin, if it was, is now difficult to see.

So, we can assume that bullet number 2 also flew out of the barrel.

Who used Tamizier bullets or similar? In addition to the French, they were used in the armies of Sardinia and Turkey, France's allies in the Crimean campaign - that is, the collision of such bullets in the air should have meant the conduct of "friendly fire", and oncoming fire. Thus, the probability of not only a collision in the air, but simply an oncoming flight of two Tamizier bullets is very small.

Did the Russian shooters use Tamizier bullets or similar? In some regiments of the Russian army, in very small quantities, the skirmishers were armed with the Ernrot rod gun mod. 1851 - conversion from a smooth-bore infantry rifle of 1845. The gun had a caliber of 7.1 lines (18 mm; the caliber of the Touvenin fitting - 7 lines), 5 rifling in the barrel and a conical rod in the breech for flattening bullets (see. V. Fedorov. The evolution of small arms. Part I, pp. 43, 53). The bullet could probably be similar to Tamizia (there is no exact data), but the French bullet had very few chances to meet with such an enemy, and more importantly, there were not 5, but 4 thread marks on the bullets under study.

So, it is most likely that bullet #2, stuck in soft ground (and for some reason turned 180 °), took the hit of bullet #1. Where and how could this happen? Here we plunge into the world of fantasy. A possible place is a training shooting range, where many bullets of the same type are fired over a relatively small target area. Another version is the site of the position of the Russian troops during the assault on the Fedyukhin Heights by the French in September 1854, when the fire could be concentrated on important areas of the fortifications.

What is most surprising is not the very fact of the collision of bullets (lead bullets that hit each other were found in Sevastopol before), but their exact focus on each other. There is an involuntary suspicion that one of the bullets was fired at the other on purpose, at close range. We offer, for example, such a dramatic reconstruction explaining why bullet No. 2 met bullet No. 1 face to face: bullet No. 2 did not fly anywhere - it was packed into the barrel, but refused to participate in a senseless massacre and was removed using a special "corkscrew" - twists, and then placed against the wall in front of the ranks and shot for pacifism :)

Only the French army during the Crimean campaign fired about 28 million (!) Bullets in a relatively small space. The Russian army even organized a targeted collection of enemy bullets for remelting (there was a shortage of lead, see below). V. Fedorov. Evolution..., 59). One can only guess what the defenders of Sevastopol experienced under fire of such density. "Losses of Russian artillery in men and horses were almost all from rifle fire - out of 100 cases, only 5 were caused by the action of enemy shells." ( V. Fedorov. Evolution..., 56)

This is a very unusual operation for the First World War. It stands out from the general series of dull and difficult trench battles on the Western Front, rather reminiscent of the colonial wars of the previous century.

Formally and briefly, the Battle of the Dardanelles (or Gallipoli) can be described as an unsuccessful landing operation undertaken by the Entente countries in Turkey in 1915-1916. But this does not at all reflect the importance and grandeur of what was happening. You can say otherwise: it was the largest naval operation of the First World War, the largest landing operation, the most significant failure of the allies and, accordingly, the most striking victory of Turkish weapons in the entire war. However, the significance of the Gallipoli battle is not limited to this either, since it indirectly influenced all the events of the war, including those that took place on other fronts. And it is absolutely unique that the dates major events this battle have become public holidays in three countries: Australia, New Zealand and Turkey.

British lion is eager to fight

The dream of capturing Constantinople and the straits can be called the dominant policy of the Russian Empire on the Black Sea since the time of "Ochakov and the conquest of the Crimea." And of course, with the outbreak of the war against Turkey, it again became relevant. Moreover, control over the Bosporus, access to the Balkans and participation in the big Mediterranean politics were the main foreign policy goals of Russia in the First World War. But in 1914, the Russian army had other concerns, and these plans were postponed until later.

Britain is different. The British had a great interest in the Middle East, and Turkey was also their main opponent in the region. In addition, the British crown did not really like the idea of ​​​​Russian hegemony in the Balkans, therefore it was important for them to participate in the capture of the straits themselves.

It was also important that a number of Mediterranean countries at that time had not yet decided which side they were on, and the activity of the allies could influence their decision.

The First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, who became the main ideologist of the operation in Turkey, was the most active in the battle. He did not like the fact that the British fleet was on the sidelines, and he proposed to make the crossing of the Dardanelles a naval operation. It looked beautiful: English ships, suppressing enemy forts, entered the narrow Dardanelles Strait between Asia and Europe, cut through Turkish territory and occupied (liberated) the Gallipoli Peninsula. Then they enter the Sea of ​​Marmara, destroy the Turkish fleet and, together with the Russian troops, attack Istanbul. The countries of southern Europe enter the war on the side of the Entente, Turkey is likely to withdraw from the war altogether, and Germany and Austria-Hungary are completely surrounded and quickly capitulate. A complete triumph, against the background of which Churchill becomes the main character ....

In fairness, we note that there were also many skeptics in the cabinet of ministers, but Sir Winston and his supporters were persistent and convincing. British newspapers wrote in the fall about the need to save the Russians from the Turks, and although after our winter victories in the Caucasus (Sarykamysh operation) this was no longer relevant, public opinion was affected. In St. Petersburg, at first, they were wary of British activity in the Balkans, therefore the British government was even forced to give secret guarantees that the straits would go to Russia in any case after the war. In reply Supreme Commander Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich promised that if the British landing was successful and the Dardanelles were captured, the Russian expeditionary force would leave Odessa and Batum and help the allies. However, the Russian General Staff strongly doubted that the British operation would be successful.

In the late autumn of 1914, the British fleet bombarded the Gallipoli positions. It was successful and showed the weakness of the Turkish defense. This also influenced the decision of the British, and in the winter they began to prepare the operation. Unfortunately, the British command did not take into account that the Turks would also have several months in reserve, in which they could significantly change the situation.

Germany played an important role here, where they perfectly understood the danger of the landing and its possible consequences. The Germans did everything possible to help the ally: they helped the Turks with equipment, the staff of German military advisers was increased. The command over the fortifications of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles was taken over by the German Admiral Guido von Usedom, the German Admiral Merten was also authorized by the Turkish headquarters in the Dardanelles, and General Otto Liman von Sanders became the commander of the fifth Turkish army created in this direction.

With the help of the Germans, the Turks strengthened and re-equipped the stationary coastal forts, created a number of mobile artillery batteries, installed and improved 10 rows of minefields blocking the strait. To combat enemy minesweepers, special light batteries appeared. Searchlights were strengthened, torpedo stations were set up on the shores of the straits, and anti-submarine nets were lowered. Turkish Navy located in the Sea of ​​Marmara, ready to support the defense of the straits with its artillery and attack enemy ships if they try to break through the fortifications in the central part of the straits. The preparations were very serious, but Churchill and his officers were not embarrassed by the actions of the enemy. The British lion was already ready to jump and was not going to pay attention to such trifles.

whale vs elephant

In February, a mighty British-French fleet with a total of 80 pennants concentrated off the island of Lemnos in the Mediterranean. It included 16 battleships, the newest battleship Queen Elizabeth, the battle cruiser Inflexible, 5 light cruisers, 22 destroyers, 24 minesweepers, 9 submarines, air transport and a hospital ship. In Egypt, the British (English, Australian, New Zealand and Indian) were concentrated, and in Marseilles, the French landing units, ready to go to sea.

Image: " Great War in images and pictures” (Moscow, 1916)

On February 19, a combat detachment of ships approached the Turkish coast and began a bombardment. Planned by large-caliber artillery big ships suppress the forts on both banks, clear the strait and go deeper, destroying the remaining defensive lines. After that, in the second phase of the operation, the landing forces were to occupy the Gallipoli peninsula and completely liberate it from the Turks.

At first, everything went well and the command announced the complete success of the operation. Admiral Cardin sent a message to London stating that, provided the weather was good, the Allies would be in Constantinople in two weeks. In Chicago, grain prices fell sharply in anticipation of the imminent resumption of Russian exports. But everything turned out to be not so simple.

Long-range large-caliber (305 and 381 mm) naval artillery, firing from a distance of 12-14 kilometers, really silenced the stationary Turkish forts for a while, but as soon as the ships tried to enter the narrow strait (its width is from 7.5 to 1.3 kilometers), mortars and field howitzers hidden behind the hills opened fire on them, and mobile batteries advanced from the depths to prepared positions. The British came under heavy fire, suffered significant losses and were forced to withdraw.

Repeated attacks did not change the situation. Turkish howitzers that fired from shelters were simply inaccessible to naval guns, and minesweepers, which were supposed to neutralize mines, came under fire from mobile batteries, which were immediately removed from their place when heavy ships approached. Having lost several ships to mines and from direct hits, the British stopped their fruitless frontal attacks.

The British changed their commander, further strengthened the detachment of ships, and in March made a second attempt at an assault from the sea. Three ships were lost, and several more were seriously damaged. Parallel Russian Black Sea Fleet shelled Turkish ports, which also did not bring success.

It became clear that without the support of the ground forces, the fleet would not be able to cope with the task. The total superiority of the allies at sea and the power of their artillery could not change the situation. Being kings of water, they did not become kings of land.

In London and Paris, they urgently began to develop a landing operation, since ground forces have already been collected. The preparation of the landing was carried out hastily and not too carefully - again the neglect of the enemy had an effect. There were no exact maps and depth measurements near the coast. The places of the proposed landing were not sufficiently studied: only the technical possibility of landing was taken into account, and for example, such a factor as the availability of drinking water on the coast was not taken into account at all. The Allies hoped to quickly expand their bridgeheads and develop an offensive; no one thought about a long defense. Turks under the leadership German general von Sanders were also preparing, trying to predict the places of possible landings. Trenches were prepared in these directions, field batteries were erected, machine-gun points were strengthened, beaches convenient for landing were surrounded by barbed wire. The Allies again ignored the training of the Turks.

By April 23, the Allied landing corps under the command of the Englishman Ian Hamilton and the Frenchman Albert d "Amad concentrated on the island of Tenedos. It consisted of the 29th British Infantry Division, the English Marine Brigade, ANZAC (ANZAC - Australian-New Zealand Army Corps) and the French division Maku, which consisted mainly of Senegalese.In addition, Indian Gurkhas, Greek volunteers, soldiers from Newfoundland and the "Zion Mule Driver Squad", which consisted of Jews, mainly immigrants from Russia, participated in the landing. In total, up to 81 thousand participated in the first phase of the landing men with 178 guns.The troops were loaded onto ships and moved to the Turkish coast under the cover of the forces of the fleet.The Turks saw all this and prepared to repel the attack.

It is worth noting that the shores of the Dardanelles are mountainous, although they have many closed sandy beaches and coves. The Turks occupied all the dominant hills, and most of the troops were concentrated in depth in order to respond to the actions of the British and not fall under the blows of naval artillery in advance.

Image: "The Great War in Images and Pictures" (Moscow, 1916)

"I command you to die"

The allies landed in three main groups. The main blow of the British fell on the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula - Cape Helles. The Australians and New Zealanders struck from the west at Gaba Tepe, and the French landed on the Asian coast at Kum-Kale. By the way, the cruiser Askold, the only Russian ship that participated in the Dardanelles operation, took an active part in this. Veteran Russo-Japanese War hunted for German raiders in the Indian Ocean, then came to Marseille and, by agreement between the allies, was included in the French squadron. Russian sailors under the leadership of Lieutenant S. Kornilov ensured the landing from boats and yawls, and the gunners covered the landing with fire.

As a result, the Senegalese colonial riflemen captured two villages, took more than 500 prisoners and pinned down the forces of two divisions. The Turks pulled up reserves, and the French were already forced to go on the defensive. With great difficulty they managed to evacuate, and a whole company of Senegalese was taken prisoner.

In other places, the landing was also not successful, despite the valor and heroism of the soldiers. The detachments had no communication with each other, the commanders did not orient themselves on the ground. Some groups that made diversionary landings were completely lost. Twelve thousand Australians and New Zealanders were trapped on a beach 600 meters wide under heavy Turkish fire and suffered heavy losses.

The British attacked in the main direction. According to the recollections of the participants, the landing units intended for landing in this area (three infantry companies and a platoon of marines) were put on ship's boats, and three battalions of the 29th Infantry Division on the River Clyde collier, specially adapted for landing. After a half-hour bombardment, with the support of aviation, which had a base on the island of Tenedos, eight tugboats, each leading four large boats, quickly approached the shore. The River Clyde followed behind. The Turks did not respond to naval artillery fire and allowed the boats to pass in front of Cape Helles, after which they opened fire from field guns and machine guns hidden on the shore. In order to quickly jump out onto the shore, people jumped into the water, but here they got into recessed wire fences.

In a few minutes the entire first echelon was destroyed. Naval artillery could no longer help, and the relatively large firepower of the Turks, the British could only respond with fire from 10 machine guns from the River Clyde, which was slowly approaching, towing scows for landing at the sides. Having stuck her nose into the sandy shallows in front of the beach, the River Clyde began to lower people ashore along the constructed bridges. The two leading companies were completely destroyed in a few minutes, and only a part of the soldiers of the third company, mostly wounded, jumped ashore and, hiding behind a dune, dug in. At this time, the scows on which the bridges were laid broke off and slowly floated downstream along the coast in front of Cape Helles, from which the people who were on the bridges were killed by fire.

Nevertheless, in two areas, and above all, in the main direction, the Allies were able to capture small bridgeheads and launch an offensive.

General von Sanders quickly guessed the enemy's idea and regrouped his forces. They formed three defensive sectors, each of which acted independently against the landing forces. The Turks tried to quickly go on the offensive and throw the enemy into the sea. They fought desperately. In Turkey, the words of the future Ataturk became winged, and then young officer Mustafa Kemal Pasha, which he told the soldiers of his battalion, raising them to bayonet attack against the Australians: "I'm not ordering you to attack, I'm ordering you to die!".

Having lost more than 17 thousand people in the first days of the landing, the British, together with the French who joined them, the Indian corps and the second ANZAC corps, were able to occupy a bridgehead up to 5 kilometers deep in the main direction. The Turks brought up fresh forces, and the allies were forced to go on the defensive. They held on thanks to the support of naval artillery, but at the end of May the situation at sea changed - the British fleet itself came under attack. On May 25, the German submarine U-21 sank the British battleship Triumph, the next day the same boat sank the battleship Majestic. The Allies did not have the opportunity to protect their ships on the high seas and were forced to withdraw warships to the sheltered Mudros Bay. The troops were left without artillery support.

Image: "The Great War in Images and Pictures" (Moscow, 1916)

"We will lose half"

Throughout June and July 1915, the Allies held back the onslaught of the Turks, experiencing a catastrophic shortage of food, ammunition and, especially, water. At the same time, both sides showed miracles of courage and gentlemanly attitude towards each other. Opponents periodically arranged a truce for the funeral of the dead, exchanged gifts - the allies exchanged canned meat with the Turks for fresh fruits and vegetables. The New Zealanders and Australians even threw away gas masks, being sure that the Turks were fighting honestly and did not use gases.

By August, the Allies had increased their forces several times, bringing them to half a million. The Turks also sent reinforcements. Secretly, the British were preparing a new attack, but, despite more serious preparations, the August offensive on the old and new (Suvla) bridgeheads failed. In a hopeless attack on Hill 60, a battalion of the Norfolk Regiment was killed to the last man. The war again turned into a positional one. The allies did not have the strength to attack, the Turks were also in no hurry to go on the attack, so as not to suffer unnecessary losses. The spirit of the Turkish troops was weakened by sitting in the trenches, at the same time it was clear that the enemies pressed to the sea would fight desperately. Time was to become an ally of the Turks.

At the end of September, Bulgaria entered the war on the side of Germany and Turkey, and the Austro-Hungarian troops occupied Belgrade. General situation in the Mediterranean theater completely changed, and the ultimate success of the Dardanelles landing was no longer possible. The situation was becoming hopeless. In October, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener inquires of the commander of the allied forces at Gallipoli, General Hamilton, about possible losses during the evacuation. Answer: 50 percent. In November, Lord Kitchener personally went to the positions in order to make a decision on the spot.

However, evacuation was inevitable. At the end of November, there was a "big snowstorm" - as a result of a sharp cold snap, up to 10 percent of the soldiers of the expeditionary corps received frostbite. There were no warm clothes, and it was not realistic to equip the entire army. I had to leave quickly, despite the losses.

In total, the struggle for the Dardanelles lasted 259 days. Of the 489 thousand soldiers and officers who participated in the battle allied forces about 252,000 people were killed and wounded. Almost half of them are British. Large, although not so catastrophic, losses were suffered by the French. About 30 thousand Australians and New Zealanders were killed, which for these countries was the worst loss in history. Turkish troops lost about 186 thousand killed, wounded and died of disease. The initiator of the landing, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, was forced to resign. The failure forever left a dark stain on his reputation, although he immediately went to the Western Front in order to wash it away with blood. As a colonel he commanded a battalion of the Royal Scottish Fusiliers.

April 25 - Landing Day has become a national holiday in Australia and New Zealand. Since 1916, it has been called ANZAC Day, after the Second World War it became known as Memorial Day. The lessons of the Dardanelles landing were included in all textbooks on the art of war, and the experience gained was taken into account in preparation for the Allied landings in Normandy in 1944. However, this is a completely different story.

Do you know about Violeta Jessop, known as "Miss Unsinkable", who happened to be aboard three ships that met their end at the bottom of the oceans, but this woman did not even have a single scratch? The primary source of coincidences can be considered a collision of two bullets during the Battle of Gallipoli 1915-1916. Get ready to dive in and explore more coincidences that seem unrealistic at first glance!

Bingham + Powell = Bingham Powell

According to Inexplicable Mysteries, in 1920, three Englishmen met on a train in Peru. The name of the first was Bingham, the second was Powell, and the third was Bingham Powell.

Two colliding bullets

Two colliding bullets from the Battle of Gallipoli, 1915-16. What are the chances?

Miss Unsinkable

This is Violeta Jessop, and she was on board all the sunken ships: the Titanic, the Britannica, and the Olympic. By the way, all three of these ships met their end at the bottom of the ocean, while Violeta did not even have a scratch!

Dams and games!

The first person to die while working on the dam was Tijay Tierny, who died on December 20, 1922. The last person died on December 20, 1935, and he was the son of Tijay Tierni!

Bond to the examination room!

15 year old James Bond sat on final exams at a high school in North Wales in 1990 and his code on the form was 007. Amazing!

Falling baby

In the 1930s in the city of Detroit, a man named Joseph Feelock became a superhero in the life of a young mother! Feeglock was walking down the street, the child fell from a high window. Figlock and the baby were unharmed. A year later, the same child fell out of the window, and again fell on Mr. Feelock. Once again, both of them survived this terrible event!

Worst match ever!

In 1975, a man was killed by a taxi driver while riding a motor scooter in Bermuda. A year later, the man's brother was killed on the same moped by the same taxi driver who was carrying the same passenger.

identical twins

Twin brothers, Jim Lewis and Jim Springer were separated at birth, adopted by different families. Both married the same woman named Linda, both had sons named James Alan and James Alan. They later divorced and married a woman named Betty. What a coincidence!

Bruce Lee's son Brandon Lee died just like Bruce Lee in the movie "Death Game"

"Death Game" is based on a storyline where Bruce Lee played an actor in a movie. In the film, Lee's character is killed using a fake gun, but Brandon accidentally died when the fake gun turned out to be real by mistake!

That's what I call an amazing coincidence!

The story of twins who met ten years later thanks to Facebook. Borderier Anais and Samantha Futerman were born in South Korea November 19, 1987. One day Anais was traveling with her friend who was showing her some pictures, and Anais was just shocked by the girl in one picture who looked terribly like her. She then searched for this girl after Samantha posted one video. They then started talking on Skype and finally met. "You have an unbreakable bond that you can't explain, but we understand each other without even saying anything," Bordiere said. “I understand her body language. We recognized each other immediately."

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By the way, it was sent to me by an inquisitive blog reader. Usually they write that these are two colliding bullets from the Battle of Gallipoli, 1915-16. Very unusual item!

But can such a case actually exist? Let's try to figure it out...

Many have already seen on the Internet two bullets collided in flight.

As reported, these are bullets from the Crimean War - French and Russian - found during excavations.

This option tested MYTH BUSTERS and they succeeded.

But what about our case? Let's start by remembering what the Battle of Gallipoli is.

The Battle of Gallipoli, also known as the Dardanelles operation, was one of the bloodiest in the First World War.

By February 1915, fighting was underway on all fronts of the First World War. The Ottoman Empire, which was called the "sick man of Europe", continued to resist the Entente countries. Sometimes it was quite bitter - it was an insult to the European powers, which by the beginning of the 20th century turned out to be the catalyst for the final stagnation of the once mighty empire. The last straw was British refusal to transfer dreadnoughts to the Ottomans"Reshadiye" and "Sultan Osman I", for the purchase and equipment of which the Turks laid out literally the last money.

The strategic decision not to give up the ships was made by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill. In February 1915, he decided that it was time for the Europeans to recapture Istanbul.

Although Istanbul itself was not needed by anyone. Over the centuries, first Constantinople, and then its renamed reincarnation, many have tried or dreamed of taking possession of the straits. The Bosphorus and the Dardanelles connect the Aegean Sea with the Sea of ​​Marmara, and it with the Black Sea.

All this might not have happened, but Churchill finally became convinced of the need to capture the straits after the Russians asked for it. And they did this because the fighting against Turkey on the Caucasian front became more complicated: the Ottomans tried to involve Persia and Afghanistan in the war against the Russian Empire.

In simple terms, taking advantage of the fact that the Ottoman sultan was also the caliph, the Turks tried to declare jihad on Russia and call on these countries.

The Allies saw this and decided not to hesitate. The operation began on February 19, when the ships of the Anglo-French fleet entered the strait and began bombarding the Ottoman forts. By that time, the forts had been significantly fortified, and mines were placed on the water around them.

The shelling continued for several hours, but did not cause significant damage to the Turkish fortifications. The operation stopped for almost a week, but mines now prevented the landing. After several meetings, it was decided to conduct a general attack.

However, the Entente again failed - at first the ships ran into the mines that the Ottomans had laid in the dead of night. And then the massive shelling began.

It was decided to act differently - to land a ground assault on the Gallipoli Peninsula, which would capture the forts and open the way to Istanbul. Since there were not enough forces, Great Britain sent Australians and New Zealanders to fight. The Dardanelles operation became for them both a baptism of fire and one of the main tragedies. In total, 81 thousand people took part in the ground operation on the part of the Entente. True, it was decided to resume the operation only on April 25.

The landing in all directions quickly turned into a bloodbath. The British and French were not saved even by the support of the Russian landing cruiser Askold, which came to their aid. It is symbolic that after the revolution, the British will requisition this ship, rename it Glory IV, and then sell it to Soviet Russia in a deplorable state, which Germany will have to pay in order to dispose of the once excellent ship.

On April 25 alone, more than 18,000 Entente soldiers were killed. The losses of the Turks were several times less.

Surprisingly, the fighting continued until August 1915. At the same time, it was not the British and French themselves who took part in them. In addition to the Australians and New Zealanders mentioned, the Senegalese, Algerians, and Indians fought. Now flaring up, then fading, the operation was completed in January 1916. According to rough estimates, the Entente killed 250 thousand people. Approximately the same number of deaths were from the Ottoman Empire.

Churchill resigned and, after some deliberation, went to the Western Front. And Russia continued to hope that it would still get the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. But looking at what happened to the allies, she was not particularly in a hurry to implement these plans.

In such a bloody battle, could such a structure have arisen from bullets colliding in flight? Definitely not. Rather, the design could have arisen, but not from flying bullets. And that's why.

There are no marks from the cutting of the barrel on the bullet that was pierced, therefore it was not fired at. Most likely it was a whole cartridge (in a machine-gun belt, in a rifle, a box of cartridges) into which a bullet hit. The sleeve was removed and the composition was exhibited in the museum.

How do you think? Correct conclusion?

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