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11/12/2024

Last day of WW1 , France

05/20/2024

German soldiers , WW1
"Anonymous document made in November 1917 before the (fights) of December 1st, 1917. "The day of glory" of the 7th company as described by Ernst Junger in his journal. The losses were huge on this day: "Among all the wounded, some will surely die. The high percentage of deaths is explained by the long and fierce (melee fight), in which the question is always" to be or not to be ". Philippe Wille private collection.
Digitally colored photo by Frédéric Duriez - Histoire de Couleurs

2,037,000 German soldiers were killed in World War I. These losses were a military and demographic catastrophe which had enormously important political, social, economic, and cultural consequences.

"Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all ... Of all the war's exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm troop leaders between narrow trench walls. There's no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one's breast like a nightmare."
Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel

05/14/2024

At Cambrai, France, German soldiers load a captured British Mark I tank onto a railroad, in Nov 1917. Ironically, it was actually the Germans who would go on to use tanks to greater effect in future conflicts, with the Panzer division often dominating the battlefield in the Second World War.

The British Mark I was the first ever tank to see combat.

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150 were built, divided into male and female types with 75 of each. Male tanks had sponsons, each one mounting a 57mm, six-pounder gun. Female tanks, on the other hand, each mounted two cumbersome sponsons, designed to carry two Vickers, water-cooled, heavy machine guns instead, with tiny escape doors at the back. Both had a wheeled tail assembly at the back which could be used for steering and as a counter-balance when going over a ridge or even additional support when crossing a wide trench.

Mark I tanks went into action for the first time on 15 September 1916 on the Somme. Eight others were shipped out to Palestine and saw action at Gaza, the first time tanks were ever used in a desert setting. Later in 1916 the wheeled tails, which were proving more trouble than they were worth, were removed and it was found that the tanks ran just as well without them. Other modifications included fitting stronger brakes and better track rollers and removing the teeth from the idler wheels at the front. Some minor actions took place later in the year and fifteen Mark I tanks were earmarked to take part in the Battle of Arras in April 1917.

05/11/2024

Garford-Putilov Armored Car.
One of the Weirdest Armored Vehicles From WWI

This rugged and reliable behemoth, which weighed 11 tons, was built by the Russian army. The only problem with it was that it had a puny 30 horsepower to shift its significant weight, meaning that it could achieve a top speed of just 11 mph. Its top-heavy design meant that it didn't do that well when off-road either.

05/10/2024

A Russian adjustable mobile shield captured by the Germans, 1914.
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Artillery, rather than rifles or machine guns, was the principal killer on the battlefields of World War I. While the soldiers are carrying shields to protect themselves from rifle and machine gun fire, a round explodes over their heads, shredding their brains with shrapnel.

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05/09/2024

A vestige of alpine warfare, an Italian cannon still stands on Cresta Croce, a 3,000-meter-high Adamello ridge, WWI.

04/22/2024

Rare footage of German troops of WW1

04/17/2024

93 Year Old Irish Soldier describes World War One, 1988

04/01/2024

The mysterious boilerplate, the victorian robot.

Boilerplate is built by Professor Archibald Campion in the 1880s and unveiled at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Designed for the self-proclaimed purpose of "preventing the deaths of men in the conflicts of nations," Boilerplate charges into combat during the Spanish–American War and the Boxer Rebellion

Boilerplate is also active in the First World War, but disappears during the relief of Major Whittlesey's Lost Battalion, possibly having been captured by the Germans for study.

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