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World War I. Weapons and Trench Warfare. Rifles and Pistols. Machine Gun. U-Boats. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats. The Sinking of the Lusitania. The Zimmerman Telegram. The Yanks Are Coming!. Americans in the Trenches. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun. Grenades. Poison Gas. French Renault Tank.
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World War I Weapons and Trench Warfare
The Airplane “Squadron Over the Brenta”Max Edler von Poosch, 1917
The Flying Aces of World War I FrancescoBarraco, It. Eddie “Mick”Mannoch, Br. Eddie Rickenbacher, US Manfred vonRichtoffen, Ger.[The “RedBaron”] Rene PaukFonck, Fr. Willy Coppens deHolthust, Belg.
Daily Images – Trench Foot is a medical condition caused by prolonged exposure of the feet to damp, unsanitary, and cold conditions. It is one of many immersion foot syndromes. The use of the word trench in the name of this condition is a reference to trench warfare, mainly associated with World War I. Below is an image of one of the treatments which enable quicker healing and return to the same conditions which caused the problem in the first place.
Trench Warfare “No Man’s Land”
The Somme – July, 1916 • 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. • Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.
The Somme American Cemetary, France 116,516 Americans Died
1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies 50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died