AM on November 11, 1918, the Armistice that put an end to the fighting of World War I came into effect. After over four years ...
In the battlefield conditions of WW1 this meant an average of 500 rounds ... real threat to soldiers in the trenches was the brutal artillery bombardments: "Artillery was the killer; artillery ...
The bomb was found when a marina worker was dredging the water An unexploded World War One artillery shell has been found in a river by a marina worker. James Wilkinson, who works at Newark Marina ...
Tanks used in the Second World War evolved significantly compared to the Great War, going from slow, cumbersome armored ...
This German Field Manual was found by my grandfather and namesake William Campbell in a German artillery dug-out near Flesquieres in Northern France on 20 November 1917 when he was 20 years old.
In 1919, King George V of England proclaimed that Armistice Day be marked with two minutes of silence at 11 am, the hour the ...
The U.S. built 17. American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war: 297,000 aircraft, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks and two ...
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For centuries, a key to battlefield victory has been destroying the enemy's artillery. Left unmolested, the big guns could devastate troops, vehicles, fortifications and supply lines. Thus ...
Lance Corporal Frederick William Dobson and Private Thomas Young, crawled across to No Man's Land under heavy artillery and ...
It commemorates Private Albert Hurst of the 9th Battalion Border Regiment who died aged 27 on August 30, 1917 and Bombardier Francis Ralph Blacklock of 51st Field Regiment Royal Artillery who died ...
At the same time, Russia is using its still-massive advantage in heavy artillery to pound Ukrainian ... paralleling the development of military biplanes in WW1, we started to see dedicated FPV ...