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WWl Weapons and Trench Warfare

WWl Weapons and Trench Warfare. By: Dirk Johnston 8 th hour. Rifles and Pistols. Rifles-main weapon in trenches (15 rds per min) Bolt-Action Rifles Lebel M1886 Mauser Gewehr Lee Enfield Rifle Springfield Mannlicher-Carcano Pistols Webley Mk.lV Luger Pistol.

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WWl Weapons and Trench Warfare

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  1. WWl Weapons and Trench Warfare By: Dirk Johnston 8th hour

  2. Rifles and Pistols Rifles-main weapon in trenches (15 rds per min) • Bolt-Action Rifles • Lebel M1886 • Mauser Gewehr • Lee Enfield Rifle • Springfield • Mannlicher-Carcano Pistols Webley Mk.lV Luger Pistol

  3. Springfield and Luger Pistol

  4. Machine-Guns Fire power=100 guns Needed 4-6 men to work and on flat surface • Gardner Machine Gun • Hotchkiss • Lewis Gun • Maxim Machine-Gun • Vickers Machine-Gun • Browning Machine-Gun

  5. Browning Machine-Gun

  6. Artillery • Big Bertha • Howitzer • Skoda 30.5 • Mills Bomb Big Bertha

  7. Tanks Little Willie-1st tank crew of 3, max speed 3mph, and couldn’t cross trenches. • Char Schneider • Mark l (Mother) • Mark V • Mark Vlll (Liberty) • The Whippet • Carro Fiat Tipo • By end of war tanks could carry 10 men, revolving turret, and max speed 4mph.

  8. Little Willie Tank

  9. Gas • Chorine gas caused burning in the throat and chest pains. Death by suffocation. Con-wind could cause the gas to kill your own troops. • Mustard gas-most deadly 12 hours to take effect. Effects: blistering skin, vomiting, sore eyes, interal and external bleeding. Death=can take up to 5 weeks

  10. Gas

  11. Submarines • A little over 200 feet long and was less than 1,000 tons. • Main reason-costal operations. • Weapons on submarines: torpedo-underwater missile and deck guns.

  12. Aircrafts • Planes-delivered bombs, spied on enemies, fighter aircrafts: machine guns, bombs, sometimes cannons. (2 planes fighting called “dogfights”) • Zeppelin-airship used for bombing raids. Carried machine guns and bombs. Cons-easy to shoot.

  13. Zeppelin

  14. Miscellaneous • Bayonet-knife attached to the end of a rifle. Used a lot in trenches. • Smokeless Gunpowder • Wireless Communication

  15. Trench Warfare • Fighting lines of trenches where troops are immune to enemy small arms fire and some artillery. • As a result there was slow wearing of enemies. • Area between trenches “no man’s land” • Some soldiers suffered from “Shell Shock” mental breakdowns from heavy artillery.

  16. Hindenburg Line

  17. Trench Pictures

  18. More Trench Pictures No Man’s Land

  19. Bibliography • http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW1/weapons.htm • http://jimmythejock.hubpages.com/hub/World-War-1-Weapons • http://history-world.org/world_war_i_and_the_submarine.htm • Google Images

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