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Weapons of The Great War

Weapons of The Great War. Krupp’s Big Bertha Howitzer. German Heavy Mortar. Biggest Gun of the War: French 520mm Howitzer. Paris Gun: Range: 75 Miles (very little accuracy) Gun Length: 112 Feet. American 14 inch Rail Gun.

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Weapons of The Great War

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  1. Weapons of The Great War

  2. Krupp’s Big Bertha Howitzer

  3. German Heavy Mortar

  4. Biggest Gun of the War: French 520mm Howitzer

  5. Paris Gun: Range: 75 Miles (very little accuracy) Gun Length: 112 Feet

  6. American 14 inch Rail Gun

  7. "[The] vapor settled to the ground like a swamp mist and drifted toward the French trenches on a brisk wind. Its effect on the French was a violent nausea and faintness, followed by an utter collapse.”

  8. Danger: The poison gas could creep back to your own lines if the wind direction changed!

  9. 3 Varieties of Gas: • Lachrymator • (non-lethal tearing agent) • 2. Asphyxiant • (poison-attacks lungs and eyes) • 3. Blistering Agent • (mustard gas-attacked any exposed, moist skin)

  10. German Maxim machine gun

  11. New murderous weapons necessitated the need for trench warfare…the following photos are from the simulated trench at the Imperial War Museum in London Tunneling with dynamite Flame Thrower in action Sniper and fake tree

  12. Tanks of World War I

  13. The Holt Caterpillar Tractor (early tank design)

  14. Early British Design: “Little Willie”

  15. British Mark I (“Mother”)

  16. British Mark I in Action (or inaction)

  17. Tank recovered in France, 1998

  18. British Light Whippet Tank

  19. German Schwerer Kampfwagen A7V

  20. German Leichterkampfwagen II

  21. Inside View of a Carro Fiat Tipo

  22. Weapons of the Air

  23. British Sopwith Camel Fighter

  24. German Tri-Winged Fokker

  25. Baron Manfred Von Richtofen (The Red Baron) registered at least 80 “kills” during the war.

  26. Snoopy chases the Red Baron in his Sopwith Camel fighter.

  27. German Junkers D-I: First single-wing fighter planes developed

  28. Zeppelin Raid over Antwerp

  29. Zeppelin over London, 1915 Zeppelin bomb damage

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