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Posted: 4/6/2018 11:39:10 PM EDT
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A vintage photograph of an Adamello lookout post shows the treacherous aspects of war at high altitudes.
 A vestige of alpine warfare, an Italian cannon still stands on Cresta Croce, a 3,000-meter-high Adamello ridge. 
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Posted: 4/7/2018 8:01:56 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/7/2018 8:07:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TontoGoldstein:
@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: 4/7/2018 8:26:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Schmeck:
I'm related to one of these guys, unfortunately I'm not sure which one. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/349999/Screen_Shot_2018-02-19_at_10-457193.JPG |
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Posted: 4/7/2018 9:30:04 AM EDT
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A few of several hundred I have from my great uncles photo album.
 Attached File Attached FileSee thread here with some backstory. WW1 cousins |
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Posted: 4/7/2018 11:11:48 AM EDT
[Last Edit: MBUZICHOMA]
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Went the the State Museum and took some of these. It is a newer exhibit.
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Posted: 4/8/2018 10:44:29 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/8/2018 11:05:13 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/10/2018 7:40:56 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/16/2018 5:53:48 PM EDT
[Last Edit: TimJ]
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Photos from my museum- www.varnumcontinentals.org in Rhode Island
German pioneer gear  .
German binos  .
Shell fragments from France 
Bust o'Bismark 
'08 Maxim, French poster  .
Prussian helmets  .
US Brodie helmet with dent from a shell fragment. Had mailing label, Doughboy sent it home, still has a mailing label in it. 
Mk1 US frag, note fuse and spoon  .
Concussion grenade, frag, and CN grenade 
Potato masher  .
Souvenir from a German soldier  .
German helmet mailed home, complete with stamps. 
Small aerial bomb  .
US Lewis gun  .
US Mk1 aerial bomb  .
Recovered fuse assemblies  .
70mm shell  .
US woolen uniform  .
German and Ausrian arms  .
1917 (not an A1) Browning  .
Genuine French urinal sign. 
Cyril Moser, a local boy who died in France at the age of 20. And the hat he's wearing in the photo. We also have his mother's Gold Star flag. 
1917 Browning  .
08 Maxim  .
.22 rf SMLE 
1896 Broomhandle Mauser |
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Posted: 4/22/2018 5:34:51 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/22/2018 5:50:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MBUZICHOMA:
Went the the State Museum and took some of these. It is a newer exhibit. https://i.imgur.com/AnG5Hwb.jpg https://i.imgur.com/t3KJTuL.jpg https://i.imgur.com/rzXMFCq.jpg https://i.imgur.com/xepAGLX.jpg https://i.imgur.com/mwXrxp8.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Kp0ahrX.jpg https://i.imgur.com/h65nAfv.jpg https://i.imgur.com/z9aFmzg.jpg https://i.imgur.com/cRZ0JYk.jpg Interesting aside, I have a soap dish exactly like the one in that "junk on the bunk" display. I got it from the estate of a retired CSM, but I always thought it was a 1960s item. I've been using this entire deployment. It's way better than the shitty plastic soap dishes they sell at the PX. |
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Posted: 4/22/2018 8:04:08 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Tango]
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My Grandfather. 7th Infantry 3rd Division. Rock of the Marne!
He was mustard gassed. Lost the men that were with him, blinded and a mess. He wondered around for help. Ended up in a field hospital. He was out a while. He came to, looked around and said screw this. Walked out. Took clothes from a pile outside. Picked a rifle up and went back to the front. He had no I.D. and was reported M.I.A. The fight the Third was famous for his company was wiped out down to a few men. No food and no water. They crawled out into no mans land and looted the dead germans for food, water and ammo. They held their position. I read some accounts of the Third and they fired the machine guns until the barrels were red. They had to let them cool. They were shooting at the germans and throwing grenades to keep them off of them with their 45s. They were right on them 10 to 20 yards. Almost everybody was wounded. He made it home after being held with no I.D. until the Mayor of his small TN town took responsibility for him being an American Citizen. I have the paperwork of him onboard a ship coming home and hes the only one without an I.D number next to his name. 
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Posted: 4/22/2018 8:40:49 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/22/2018 8:57:55 PM EDT
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cool thread. I wish I had a photo(s) of my Grandfather, he was a farrier/blacksmith in the Calvary over there.
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Posted: 4/22/2018 9:04:06 PM EDT
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Cool pix.
My my grandfather was too young for WWI and too old for WWII |
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Posted: 4/22/2018 9:22:14 PM EDT
[Last Edit: bssrf4]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LoginName:
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/24334/12-Monkeys-Twelve-1995-movie-props-523072.JPG |
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Posted: 4/22/2018 9:26:11 PM EDT
[Last Edit: LoginName]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bssrf4:
What am I looking a here? 
 12 Monkeys (8/10) Movie CLIP - World War I (1995) HD |
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Posted: 4/22/2018 9:27:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LoginName: The pic name should be a clue. |
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Posted: 4/22/2018 9:29:06 PM EDT
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One of the best courses I ever took was a grad course on WW1. That war was so pointless and so horrifying in the immediate human costs and the outcome, namely the spread of Communism and the creation of the Soviet Union.
One of my great-grandfathers was a Marine at Belleau Wood. He came home with a seabag full of guns. Nobody is sure where they all went, but they are all gone by now. Another was just a little too young, but two of his brother went to France but only one came home. |
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Posted: 4/22/2018 9:34:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bssrf4:
So Bruce Willis? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bssrf4:
Originally Posted By LoginName: The pic name should be a clue. I won't post any spoiler about the connection of the B&W photo, but it's from the movie. |
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Posted: 4/29/2018 7:17:46 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/30/2018 9:32:31 AM EDT
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Thanks TS.
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Posted: 5/9/2018 7:23:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/16/2018 3:17:24 PM EDT
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bump
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Posted: 5/17/2018 5:54:43 AM EDT
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Twitter Link
One of the most chilling abandoned places in the world is France's Red Zone, or "Zone Rouge". Over 100 years ago, the First World War so devastated the landscape here that people are still forbidden to enter, & the zone has become a ghostly & overgrown place. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/17/2018 7:29:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Whamo:
One of my favorite photos. I think it's someone's avatar here. https://deathmetalhistory.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/k193972_german-ww1-trooper-with-a-gas-mask-and-lance.jpg |
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Posted: 5/20/2018 2:51:51 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Colt653]
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Posted: 5/20/2018 4:08:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/20/2018 4:38:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RED_5:
Airco DH.2 Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RED_5:
Airco DH.2 |
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Posted: 5/20/2018 4:48:51 PM EDT
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imagine trying to bail out with the pusher prop behind you.
.....and no parashoot since it was 1916 yikes |
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Posted: 6/2/2018 8:52:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/3/2018 6:47:54 AM EDT
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The Fading Battlefields of World War I
ALAN TAYLOR MAY 28, 2018 32 PHOTOS IN FOCUS
This year will mark the passing of a full century since the end of World War I—a hundred years since the “War to End All Wars.” In that time, much of the battle-ravaged landscape along the Western Front has been reclaimed by nature or returned to farmland, and the scars of the war are disappearing. Some zones remain toxic a century later, and others are still littered with unexploded ordnance, closed off to the public. But across France and Belgium, significant battlefields and ruins were preserved as monuments, and farm fields that became battlegrounds ended up as vast cemeteries. In these places, the visible physical damage to the landscape remains as evidence of the phenomenal violence and destruction that took so many lives so long ago. |
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Posted: 6/3/2018 6:50:42 AM EDT
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Say what you want, but I think WWI was worse than WWII, at the very least for the people doing the fighting.
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Posted: 6/3/2018 7:01:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dewoitine:
https://www.premiere-guerre-mondiale-1914-1918.com/image/uploader/uploadify/article/photo/58-champagne-1915-cadavre-allemand.jpg after an heavy shelling: https://fr.muzeo.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_moyenne_def/public/oeuvres/photo/guerres_et_anneees_folles/cadavre_projetee_dans_un_arbre_67309.jpg?itok=YXnvvYpe And double yikes. |
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Posted: 6/3/2018 9:45:55 AM EDT
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This has been great! Makes me want to go to France and see some of the places in person.
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Posted: 6/4/2018 10:44:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/4/2018 11:49:23 PM EDT
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My Grandfather, 358th Inf, 90th Inf Div, Tough Ombres
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Posted: 6/5/2018 11:38:46 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/5/2018 2:21:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistorySome of those tanks are sporting serious holes from incoming rounds.
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Posted: 6/5/2018 7:16:59 PM EDT
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I posted this photo before but it fits here also.
My 3x Great grandpa and grandma with their 7 sons who all served in the great war. My 2x Great grandpa in the lower right. The top right two were KIA.  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/5/2018 8:08:11 PM EDT
[Last Edit: somedude]
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sorry If I post a dupe.
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Posted: 6/5/2018 8:13:58 PM EDT
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I never understood the point of puttees instead of button up leggings or just taller boots and tucking in the pants.
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Posted: 6/5/2018 8:29:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat was neat.
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Posted: 6/5/2018 8:32:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lee-online:
I posted this photo before but it fits here also. My 3x Great grandpa and grandma with their 7 sons who all served in the great war. My 2x Great grandpa in the lower right. The top right two were KIA. Attached File |
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Posted: 6/5/2018 8:32:32 PM EDT
[Last Edit: somedude]
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Posted: 6/5/2018 8:32:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThanks for sharing that site, there's alot of great pics. I like old pics of factories and shops.
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Posted: 6/7/2018 6:54:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GreenDragon: Thanks for sharing that site, there's alot of great pics. I like old pics of factories and shops. 
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Posted: 6/7/2018 11:30:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/8/2018 2:22:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryUS 14"/50cal Mk4 Naval Rifle on a Mk 1 Navy Gun Car. The gun was rolled into position over a pit dug under the tracks. The gun recoiled 44" so the pit was necessary for firing at high angles. The tracks under the car had to be removed because the gun breech wouldn't fit between them during recoil. The gun car was raised on jacks to take the recoil stress off the carriage.
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