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Posted: 2/10/2018 7:35:26 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Colt653]
Inspired by @Firefinder37 's great WWII photos thread
https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/Great-photo-from-WWII-more-added-/5-1949617/ Edit - March 2023, Added a Korean War thread to GD - https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Korean-War-photo-thread/5-2630812/ How about a WWI photo thread      -------------------------------- My Grandfather Died when I was very young, but he carried this 1911 in WWI, it saved his ass. He told his son in law, my father, to keep it in the family forever, that each son would get it on there 18th birthday. He also brought home a Luger. I grew up shooting them with my Dad. hard to believe this was 100 years ago.   
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Posted: 2/10/2018 7:39:05 PM EDT
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Very cool that he passed on the pistols. I also have a Colt framed 1911. Born in 1917 as well.
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Posted: 2/10/2018 7:40:10 PM EDT
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Cool story and pictures. Thanks for posting.
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Posted: 2/10/2018 7:40:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2018 7:41:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2018 7:41:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2018 7:42:34 PM EDT
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I always wanted a Luger for shits and giggles.
I met the guy who re-engineered the Luger .45 |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 2/10/2018 7:48:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RouxGaRoux:
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Posted: 2/10/2018 7:49:52 PM EDT
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My Great Grandfather during the early stages of WWI.
In the Cuban Army. We weren't in the USA nor was Spain in the war either. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 7:53:28 PM EDT
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 Attached FileMy Great Grandfather while training in the US during summer 1918. Top row right side.  Attached FileFrance 1919 while helping to clean up after the war. 2nd from the left. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 8:05:54 PM EDT
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Old war pics are the best pics
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Posted: 2/10/2018 8:07:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HungLo:
Zep used this pic for their 2nd album. https://img.discogs.com/pu0I51dyMopDYXEps869oAlk8c8=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3092359-1483310459-6297.jpeg.jpg Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HungLo:
Originally Posted By RouxGaRoux:
http://www.feelnumb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2004-0430-501_Jagdstaffel_11_Manfred_v._Richthofen.jpg https://img.discogs.com/pu0I51dyMopDYXEps869oAlk8c8=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3092359-1483310459-6297.jpeg.jpg |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 8:14:01 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2018 8:28:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2018 8:38:04 PM EDT
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@Lead-slinger
The picture with a guy using the mirror on the bayonet......the helmets look odd.....way too round. Remind me of the Brit WWII late model “turtle.” |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 8:39:38 PM EDT
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One of my favorite photos. I think it's someone's avatar here.
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Posted: 2/10/2018 8:42:06 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2018 8:57:48 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Gasmasked Hindus. Note the officer with the Webley:
Not a good landing. Back to training: 
Trench warfare was no fun and trenchfoot was common on both sides: 
Zeppelin! Post-war British one at that: 
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Posted: 2/10/2018 9:03:23 PM EDT
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Early war Chirstmas.
Cheerful lot of Tommies. Note the fellow with the P-08 just right of the smokestack. 
Photo recce pigeon: 
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Posted: 2/10/2018 10:59:58 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Log]
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My paternal grandfather. Story is that he was only a mile or two from getting to the front when the Armistice was signed. He died in 1950 after being shot in the line of duty. Capped the perp 5 times though, and made him DRT (.38 SPL revolver, hammer down on an empty chamber). I just turned 40, and my dad was born in 1943, late in my grandfather's life. So these pics were taken ~100 years ago.
My maternal grandfather was in the 9th Air Force, on a B-26 over the Bulge in WWII. https://www.odmp.org/officer/16842-chief-of-police-wesley-taylor  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:15:10 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Smashy]
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My grandfather joined the British Army when he was 12 to fight in the war. But he was too small for that, so they made him a drummer boy and sent him to India. He was so good at drumming that he eventually became a professional musician and had his own band for over 30 years.
This is him serving in India in 1914 (or maybe 1915) at 12 years old.  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:21:56 PM EDT
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Great grandpa. He started out in the cavalry in the border war. At some point they switched to field artillery for France. He would tell me about being stuffed on trains for transport. 40-8, 40 men or 8 horses. He never talked much about the actual war. I know he was at St. Mihiel.
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:26:03 PM EDT
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Virginia War Museum has a 40-8 railcar exhibited there.
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:29:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:42:40 PM EDT
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The old Patton Museum at Ft. Knox had a WWI exhibit area that displayed a protected mobile sniper hide and an example of the additional armor plate connection to the lugs on the old German helmet. Cool stuff.
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:59:25 PM EDT
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This was the era of the dreadnought:
Austro-Hungarian battleships - among the first to have triple gun turrets 
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Posted: 2/11/2018 12:13:23 AM EDT
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Everybody likes tank pics
Renault FT of Co. C 347th tank battalion 1 July 1918 at St Mihiel  Attached FileFrench tank helping 32nd Div 29 Aug 1918 during the Oise-AIsle Campaign  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/11/2018 12:21:26 AM EDT
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In Boardwalk Empire, the former sniper guy had a "sniper's mask". Is that such a thing?
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Posted: 2/11/2018 12:43:13 AM EDT
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RSC 1917: 
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Posted: 2/11/2018 12:56:50 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/11/2018 5:24:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/11/2018 5:33:47 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Ace of aces:
Another famous ace, George Guynemer 
Albert Ball 
Rene Fonck, France's greatest fighter pilot of WW I 
A German ace. Guess who? 
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Posted: 2/11/2018 5:35:50 PM EDT
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FRA
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Posted: 2/11/2018 5:36:43 PM EDT
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after an heavy shelling: 
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Posted: 2/11/2018 5:40:18 PM EDT
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Hermann Goring.
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Posted: 2/11/2018 5:42:34 PM EDT
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Albatross
not albatros 
Big Bertha, the Paris Gun 
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Posted: 2/11/2018 5:44:03 PM EDT
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French cavalry with an allied aircraft overhead. Probably my favorite image of the Great War. My Great Grandfather was injured in a gas attack, I have his Purple Heart.
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Posted: 2/11/2018 5:45:19 PM EDT
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FRA
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Posted: 2/11/2018 5:48:07 PM EDT
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A lot of dead bodies made the rats quite fat and a real PITA.
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Posted: 2/11/2018 5:50:40 PM EDT
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Thank you Derek.
MK I Male: 
Who needs radar? 
Russians were still using these in WW II 
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Posted: 2/11/2018 5:51:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/11/2018 5:58:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FLchuck8:
Not to derail but what is this? https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/126350/2BE58490-27E6-4227-8A8A-947068DA3F8B-447862-448849.JPG |
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AL, USA
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Posted: 2/11/2018 6:00:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bondryan: I have the same question, I think they are war clubs. |
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Posted: 2/11/2018 6:01:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bondryan:
I have the same question, I think they are war clubs. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bondryan:
Originally Posted By FLchuck8:
Not to derail but what is this? https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/126350/2BE58490-27E6-4227-8A8A-947068DA3F8B-447862-448849.JPG 
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Posted: 2/11/2018 6:02:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/11/2018 6:07:49 PM EDT
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Seems like no idea was too crazy-assed for that war.
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Posted: 2/11/2018 6:07:56 PM EDT
[Last Edit: dewoitine]
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Yep it's an Austrian Hand grenade, you can see the fuse at the bottom of the segmentated body.
ETA: you can also see that the belt buckle is the Austrian double-headed eagle. 
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Posted: 2/11/2018 6:08:08 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Air]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FLchuck8:
Not to derail but what is this? https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/126350/2BE58490-27E6-4227-8A8A-947068DA3F8B-447862-448849.JPG Edit: answered and not what I thought. |
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Posted: 2/11/2018 6:11:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50:
Ace of aces: https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fklimbim2014.files.wordpress.com%2F2016%2F02%2Fmanfred-von-richthofen-bw.jpeg&f=1 Another famous ace, George Guynemer https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.ning.com%2Ffiles%2Fu4AiX1nvt-vrBw8OEDiB6YxjSR-vkEJhTJ2PYhGRnLM8tPKIS8fzE-LIKsjTp4Dl-D*HQaf8ULAYhylSlhGA4o7Jut93NNCk%2F003_Guynemer_Spad_Vieux_Charles.jpg&f=1 Albert Ball https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F236x%2Fe0%2F5e%2F93%2Fe05e93951f5bed1fb75cfb164e469b76--flying-ace-aviators.jpg&f=1 Rene Fonck, France's greatest fighter pilot of WW I https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffly.historicwings.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F05%2FHighFlight-ReneFonck1.jpg&f=1 A German ace. Guess who? |
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Posted: 2/11/2018 7:02:37 PM EDT
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Zeppelin wreckage from Britain in WWI. |
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