"There is one photo which shows one lad wearing the archetypal German spiked helmet while the others point ... who served at the WW1 Battle of Passchendaele, and "immediately set to".
Britain wasn't the only nation to field tanks, of course. The French Schneider C.A.1 was France's first tank, with 121 of the ...
James A. McDevitt, a balloon observer in France during World War I, survived being shot of the sky three times in 24 hours.
But as the war unfolded in Europe, an intercepted telegram sent by the German Foreign Secretary ... main reasons for the entry of the U.S. into WWI. This is the story of the encrypted telegram ...
An ecstasy of fumbling,Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time ... magazines reveal how soldiers also used humour and anti-German feeling to cope with the conflict. Much poetry written on the ...
Here, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War—which began a hundred years ago this summer—German military engineers ... shell cases, helmets, beds made of rusted chicken wire ...
The action was particularly important because as a consequence of the battle, the German East Asia Squadron ... light on what was a defining point in WWI, and therefore a landmark moment in ...
Well, because Helldivers 2 – which feels pretty much like Warhammer 40k at times anyway – released a new combo of helmet ...
By September 16, Pershing's forces had earned an important victory in eliminating a dangerous bulge, or "salient" in the German lines near St. Mihiel. MacArthur's Rainbow Division was in the thick ...
The Museum of Flight calls the replica aircraft Coughlin was flying a recreation of a “highly maneuverable” and formidable German fighter plane with wing structure problems that led to crashes ...
There were many lines of German trenches on one side and many lines ... if I was a soldier in the trenches during World War One. WW1 SOLDIER JACK: Mud? Oh, we know all about mud here on the ...
As the U.S. military recruited young men for service, civilians were called upon to do their part by buying War bonds, donating to charity, or, if they worked in industry, going that extra mile for ...