A critically wounded Australian soldier in the trenches at the Battle of the Somme awaits evacuation to a hospital. Blood transfusions and antibiotics were yet to make their appearance, and mortality rates remained high.

　　A critically wounded Australian soldier in the trenches at the Battle of the Somme awaits evacuation to a hospital By 1916, medical science had advanced to the point where wounded soldiers could be taken to a wounded soldiers' treatment center and expected to survive. Blood transfusions and antibiotics were yet to come, and mortality rates remained high. The rear formation crumbled under a hail of shells. The moans and groans of the wounded, the cries for help, the final cries of death echoed through the air.

　On July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme in World War I, some 120,000 British infantrymen charged over the summit. Of these, about 19,240 were killed, 35,493 were wounded, 2,152 were missing, and 585 were taken prisoner. Nearly 50% of the attacking force was killed or wounded, reaching 19,240 dead, 35,493 wounded, 2,152 missing, and 585 prisoners of war. German and French forces suffered far fewer casualties than the British.

　The British authorities have focused on the tragedy of the first day and ignored the rest of the battle. The British did not repeat their mistake and concentrated on a limited offensive due to their artillery superiority. The Germans fought according to Falkenhain's demands, defending every foot of French territory, counterattacking all British occupations, and controlling the front edge of the battlefield. As a result, German infantry was constantly exposed to the full weight of British artillery fire, and counterattacks caused a sharp increase in casualties; after July 2, the British inflicted casualties on the Germans that approached the losses sustained; on July 14, a dawn attack by 22,000 men of Rawlinson's First Army opened a hole in German defenses about 5 The attack opened a 5,500-meter hole in the German defenses.

　The Allied superiority in numbers and materiel slowly and steadily drove the Germans into a war of attrition in materials, and at the end of August, under intense political pressure from military failure, the German Emperor dismissed Falkenhayn and replaced him with Hindenburg and Ludendorff, both of whom had been in the somme since the end of the war. The Germans were badly battered on the Somme and recognized that the army's tactical strategy had maximized German casualties.

　Emphasizing that Ludendorff's industrial and political policies contributed greatly to the collapse, he ignored the fact that Ludendorff had restructured the basic principles of German combat. After assuming command, Ludendorff recognized that the Germans had been badly hit on the Somme and that the army's tactical strategy had maximized German casualties.