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Posted: 9/19/2020 6:53:46 PM EDT
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thanks for sharing all the cool photos... this is basically a BTT so It doesn't fall off my radar...
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Posted: 9/24/2020 4:02:51 PM EDT
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USA
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Posted: 9/29/2020 3:55:26 AM EDT
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 Mark IV Female in German hands. |
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Posted: 9/29/2020 4:02:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/30/2020 4:33:18 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/1/2020 3:09:28 PM EDT
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 A German soldier poses next to a captured late-model Char Saint Chamond. These were the most heavily armed tanks of WW1, boasting a 75mm gun, and an advanced petrol-electric transmission, but the unbalanced and underpowered design of these 23-ton beasts performed abysmally in the mud and trenches |
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Posted: 10/11/2020 10:39:14 PM EDT
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A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything
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Posted: 10/12/2020 1:12:43 PM EDT
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Mackensen
 Attached FileAugust von Mackensen Anton Ludwig Friedrich August Mackensen (6 December 1849 – 8 November 1945, ennobled as von Mackensen in 1899), was a German field marshal.[2] He commanded successfully during the First World War of 1914–1918 and became one of the German Empire's most prominent and competent military leaders. After the armistice of November 1918 the victorious Allies interned Mackensen in Serbia for a year. He retired from the army in 1920; in 1933 Hermann Göring made him a Prussian state councillor. During the Nazi era (1933–1945), Mackensen remained a committed monarchist and sometimes appeared at official functions in his First World War uniform. Senior NSDAP members suspected him of disloyalty to the Third Reich, but nothing was proven against him. |
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Posted: 10/12/2020 1:25:21 PM EDT
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That guy's wallet said Bad Motherfucker on it.
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Posted: 10/14/2020 1:05:43 PM EDT
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Bristol F2b captured by Jasta 5 and used as a utility aircraft. It was repainted with iron crosses but German fighters and troops kept shooting at it, so they painted "Don't shoot! Good guys" on it:
 German Rumpler C.IV reconnaisance plane with an ironic plea in English:  |
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Posted: 10/15/2020 5:33:51 AM EDT
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 A captured Mark VI (male) pressed into German service near Lille, France |
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Posted: 10/15/2020 10:59:06 PM EDT
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It's possible that the Germans fielded more captured tanks than their own builds. There were only 20 A7V's.
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Posted: 10/16/2020 7:15:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WinstonSmith: It's possible that the Germans fielded more captured tanks than their own builds. There were only 20 A7V's. I will try to find a picture, it was after the signing of the armistice, but you could see a line of tanks with the only thing German about them was the paint. There really was not a lot of tanks in use, and was it the British that ended up fielding the most? |
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Posted: 10/16/2020 7:45:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 13starsinax: I will try to find a picture, it was after the signing of the armistice, but you could see a line of tanks with the only thing German about them was the paint. There really was not a lot of tanks in use, and was it the British that ended up fielding the most?  |
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Posted: 10/22/2020 9:27:44 AM EDT
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Messenger dog leaping over a German trench, May 1917
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USA
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Posted: 10/28/2020 4:10:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WinstonSmith: It's possible that the Germans fielded more captured tanks than their own builds. There were only 20 A7V's. IIRC the Germans fielded 25 own tanks and 75 captured tanks over the war. |
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Posted: 10/28/2020 4:43:08 PM EDT
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Hotchkiss 37mm 5 barrel revolving cannon anti-aircraft battery:
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Posted: 11/5/2020 9:10:34 AM EDT
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MG14/17, 3X scope
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Posted: 11/5/2020 10:00:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: MG14/17, 3X scope https://i.pinimg.com/originals/58/c4/cc/58c4ccad7e5f76dc17239f81c93ec367.jpg That looks fun. |
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Posted: 11/5/2020 10:40:11 AM EDT
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Standschtze Hellriegel 1915 Austro-Hungarian prototype water-cooled submachine gun
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Posted: 11/5/2020 10:45:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Standschtze Hellriegel 1915 Austro-Hungarian prototype water-cooled submachine gun https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/1971642_600_jpg-1670441.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/1971439_600_jpg-1670442.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/1971189_600_jpg-1670443.JPG A beltfed 9mm blowback that heavy would probably be absolutely awesome to shoot. Probably very little recoil and super controllable. |
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Posted: 11/5/2020 11:08:17 AM EDT
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the ammo bearer looks sad because they never let him shoot it
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Posted: 11/5/2020 8:03:13 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/5/2020 9:21:36 PM EDT
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Fokker mentioned some unfinished developments with motor driven machineguns. One photo of a 12 barrel MG is attributed to Fokker, no details available. (German Machineguns, Musgrave & Oliver, 1971)
 
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USA
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Posted: 11/8/2020 5:49:05 PM EDT
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"Hanni" - a Mk.IV in the service of a german Freikorps militia, 1920s
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FL, USA
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Posted: 11/8/2020 6:08:51 PM EDT
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 My grandfather's subchaser in 1918 |
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Posted: 11/8/2020 8:31:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By John3B: Fokker mentioned some unfinished developments with motor driven machineguns. One photo of a 12 barrel MG is attributed to Fokker, no details available. (German Machineguns, Musgrave & Oliver, 1971) https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/97562/Fokker_motor_MG_0002-1671205.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/97562/Fokker_MG_print-1671206.jpg Fokker go BRRRTTTTT!!!! |
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Posted: 11/11/2020 8:57:36 AM EDT
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 Attached File For the Fallen By Laurence Binyon With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres, There is music in the midst of desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears. They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted; They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. They mingle not with their laughing comrades again; They sit no more at familiar tables of home; They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; They sleep beyond England's foam. But where our desires are and our hopes profound, Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight, To the innermost heart of their own land they are known As the stars are known to the Night; As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain; As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, To the end, to the end, they remain. |
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USA
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Posted: 11/19/2020 5:13:49 AM EDT
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 Mark 1 gun carrier. Never seen these before. 
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Posted: 11/19/2020 1:28:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 13starsinax: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/303716/c03ff5d50b6ec176b0a550253b5bd2f1_jpg-1679224.JPG In Flanders Fields In Flanders Fields the poppies grow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place. While in the Sky The larks still bravely singing, fly Unheard, amid the guns below. We are the dead, Short days ago We lived, felt dawns, saw sunsets glow; Loved and were loved – but now we lie In Flanders Field Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from falling hands we throw The torch, Be yours to bear it high! If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep tho’ poppies blow In Flanders Field. |
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Posted: 12/6/2020 4:22:41 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/6/2020 4:37:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistorySteampunk AF |
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Posted: 12/6/2020 7:47:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/C7p05Y4.png Shuman ‘Superdreadnought’ - 1916 Speed: up to 100 mph  That's hilariously awful. |
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Posted: 12/6/2020 8:16:18 PM EDT
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They should have called it the "BRO DOZER 5000"
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Posted: 12/6/2020 9:07:38 PM EDT
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I have never seen, or heard of that.
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TN, USA
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Posted: 12/12/2020 11:14:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: Gasmasked Hindus. Note the officer with the Webley: https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ofbjp.org.au%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Findian-infantry-digging-trenches-prepared-against-gas-attack.jpg&f=1 Not a good landing. Back to training: https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F6%2F6f%2FCurtiss_Jenny_biplane_crash_WWI.jpg&f=1 Trench warfare was no fun and trenchfoot was common on both sides: https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fhistorywithatwist.files.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F01%2Ftrench1.jpg&f=1 Two choices, sit in mud, feces, urine, and blood, or die. That's truly horrible. Zeppelin! Post-war British one at that: https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wwi-models.org%2FPhotos%2FBri%2FHeavies%2Fr-34tank.jpg&f=1 |
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Posted: 12/15/2020 11:52:44 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/15/2020 9:42:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/13112431684_ba575f6e53_o_jpg-1732098.JPG Makes sense! Steam powered bucket wheel excavators were popular for mining, so why not adapt them for trench digging! |
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Posted: 12/16/2020 10:22:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/C7p05Y4.png Shuman 'Superdreadnought' - 1916 Speed: up to 100 mph  Attached File |
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Posted: 12/20/2020 7:13:19 AM EDT
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 Mobile Italian gun platform captured by the Austro-Hungarians during the Caporetto Breakthrough, Nov 1917 Obice da 305/17. It was a 305mm costal defense gun repurposed into a mobile siege gun. Only 30-40 were built and were even used in WWII. It took A crew of 10 to operate and shells weighed approximately 850lbs. |
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Posted: 12/31/2020 7:14:23 AM EDT
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 Bridge Tank, Boirault machine (1915): The French experimental landship to drive over the trenches of Western Front during WWI was named after its designer Boirault. It is considered as one of several interesting ancestors of the tank. It was in fact, described as the rhomboid shaped skeleton tank that had a single overhead tank and no armor. The objective of the Boirault machine was to flatten barbed wired defenses and to ride over trenches and gaps in a battlefield. It was made of huge parallel tracks formed by metallic frames with transverse beams. It was a single track covering the entire width of the machine, rotating around a single triangular center with an 80 hp petrol engine, chains and rods. Only one unit was built and it had a speed of 3 kph. The project was officially abandoned due to the bridge tank being too fragile and slow. It also couldn’t change direction easily and was nicknamed Diplodocus Militaris after the Diplodocus dinosaur. Within six months of production of this vehicle, the Little Willie prototype of British Mark I tank was developed. |
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Posted: 1/3/2021 1:00:07 PM EDT
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 SPA 9000 da 102/35  Fiat Ansaldo 1925  British Rolls-Royce armoured car. In September 1914 all available Rolls Royce Silver Ghost chassis were requisitioned to form the basis for the new armoured car  Italian "monitor" Valente: a 15 inch gun stuck on a crane barge Valente was one of a half dozen or so Italian "river monitors" equipped from spare 381mm guns intended for incomplete battleships during the first world war. Only one of the monitors was build from scratch however (and even that was still made by a civilian barge company). The others were just existing self propelled barges with guns strapped to them. It was hoped they would make good river monitors thanks to their shallow draft, but their unarmored nature and the limited arc of their guns (except the one that did have a turret) made them quite unsuited to this role. It didn't help that the blast was so powerful as to temporarily blind crew members after firing. It was attempted to make them into floating batteries, but it turned out they combined the disadvantages of a shore battery and a ship. The barges were converted back to civilian use after the war, with one exception. |
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Posted: 1/3/2021 1:03:21 PM EDT
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the things they built for WW1 is simply fascinating; pushing the limits of
knowledge and technology of the time. this was done in every conflict, but the wow factor was just up there for WW1, IMHO. |
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Posted: 1/3/2021 2:32:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RED_5: the things they built for WW1 is simply fascinating; pushing the limits of knowledge and technology of the time. this was done in every conflict, but the wow factor was just up there for WW1, IMHO. Agreed, we were still in the relatively early days of the industrial revolution then, and the detailed knowledge of machinery was growing daily. I have to wonder if what now sound like ridiculous claims for land speed of the battleships wasn't more the result of doing the simple math on the gearing (those huge wheels would mean a lot of speed if they were spinning at any decent rpm at all). It wouldn't surprise me if they were intended to turn at the same RPM as the existing shafts on the ships and someone didn't quite understand the HP requirements to move that huge weight at those speeds. |
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Posted: 1/10/2021 6:46:39 PM EDT
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 Char d'Assault Peugeot, built to address the limited anti-fortification potential of Renault FT: 75 mm gun, 40 mm of front armor, superior suspension and an electric transmission for 1.5x greater speed. Only 40 were built due to end of the war |
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Posted: 1/10/2021 6:55:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: Fiat Ansaldo 1925 I've never seen round radiator slat armor, neat-o. |
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Posted: 1/16/2021 6:30:31 AM EDT
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 German K-Wagen |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 9:15:58 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/17/2021 11:00:17 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/31/2021 1:27:05 AM EDT
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