#ww1 history

[theworldofwars]

Lieutenant J. B. McDowell, British official cameraman, filming the town of Amiens with the view of the Cathedral, 7 April 1918.

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[blackisdivine]

Black History Month

A member of the Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment) poses for the camera while holding a puppy he saved during World War 1, 1918.

The Harlem Hellfighters was a regiment made up of decorated Black soldiers who fought as part of the French army because the U.S. did not allow Black soldiers to fight alongside white soldiers. The French accepted the Harlem Hellfighters with open arms and did not racially segregate them.

During World War 1, they fought on the front lines for 191 days, longer than any other American unit. And as a result, suffered the most casualties of any American regiment—losing approximately 1,500 men. Despite the heavy death toll and the poor replacement system, the Harlem Hellfighters never lost a trench or a foot of ground to the enemy; none of them became prisoners of war. Not only were they one of the most successful regiments of World War 1, but they also helped bring Jazz to France.

Upon returning home, the Harlem Hellfighters received a welcome parade in New York City; a privilege that was denied to them before they had left for war. However, the celebrations were short lived as the summer of 1919 became known as the Red Summer, in which the country saw some of the worst racial violence since the Civil War.

The Harlem Hellfighters who dreamed of returning home to a place that would finally treat them with respect and as equal human beings, quickly realized that nothing had changed at all.

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[theworldatwar]

British troops cautiously make their way through an unknown ruined town - France, Aug 1918

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[dronescapesvideos]

The Red Baron, WWI. Soldiers examine what remains of Manfred von Richthofen's aircraft after he was shot down, and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme, France, just days before his 26th birthday, but by then already an aviation legend.

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[frogblast-the-ventcore]

From clockwise right, we have:

Hellreigel 9mm submachine gun (text via IMFDB: "As of current knowledge, there was only ever one example of the Hellriegel and it did not survive the war. Its caliber, capacity, operating method, and whether or not it was even a functional weapon are conjecture based on analysis of the photographs and historical context. It is assumed to have been blowback operated with the projections at the rear being a pair of recoil springs, and the large structure over the barrel is thought to have been a leather-wrapped water or oil jacket for cooling. From what little could be known about the weapon from the three images, it appears that the Hellriegel is a large-capacity submachine gun, firing what seems to be a 9mm cartridge. It would make the Hellriegel one of the first submachine guns made in the world by definition of a submachine gun. It wouldn't be referred as a submachine gun at the time, as the term "submachine gun" was first coined in 1921 to advertise the Thompson Submachine Gun; the Hellriegel was referred to as a machine gun (Maschinengewehr) on the image caption. It could feed from straight box magazines, or from a large drum magazine which was not actually connected to the weapon and instead fed the cartridges through a flexible chute. The unusual appearance of this drum magazine led to some assumptions that it was belt fed, however this is not the case with the rounds being unconnected from one another and are propelled along the drum and feed chute by a spring in a similar manner to the Trommelmagazin snail drum used by the Luger pistol. The drum magazine is believed to be able to hold up to 160 rounds while the box mag is limited to 20 or so. It seems to be crew-served, as one image depicts an ammo bearer with a backpack for drum magazines, and its seeming intention to be used as a stationary weapon given its weighted base for the drum and its machine gun name (making it a "heavy" submachine gun of sorts). The provision for a drum but not a bipod however, means it is unclear what exactly the weapon was intended to be used for. All three pictures were taken from the right side of the gun, so what the left side looked like is a complete mystery."

Tsar tank (absolutely bonkers Russian experimental wheeled tank):

Hand-dropped bomb runs (commonplace during the war until bomb racks were invented for small aircraft):

German cavalry with pikes (note the horse gas masks).

Also this happened:

#history #ww1 #ww1 history #world war one #world war i

[er1chartmann]

Rudolf Hess during WWI

These are some facts and curiosities about Rudolf Hess during WW1:

He enlisted as an infantryman in the Imperial German Army at the outbreak of World War I.

 His initial posting was against the British on the Somme; he was present at the First Battle of Ypres.

He was wounded on 23 July and again on 8 August 1917; the first injury was a shell splinter to the left arm, which was dressed in the field, but the second was a bullet wound that entered the upper chest near the armpit and exited near his spinal column, leaving a pea-sized entry wound and a cherry stone-sized exit wound on his back. 

While still convalescing, Hess had requested that he be allowed to enroll to train as a pilot.  By 14 October he had been assigned to Jagdstaffel 35b,

 He saw no action with Jagdstaffel 35b, as the war ended on 11 November 1918, before he had the opportunity

In October 1918 he received promotion to Leutnant der Reserve and was recommended for, but did not receive, the Iron Cross, first class.

Sources:

Military Wiki: Rudolf Hess

Wikipedia: Rudolf Hess

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[whereshadowslive]

Because one thing has become clear to me: you can cope with all the horror as long as you simply duck thinking about it – but it will kill you if you try to come to terms with it.

— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

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[historynerdj2]

History memes #48

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[eloisyw8]

"The flying circus and a man from Prussia, The sky and a plane, this man commands his domain, The western front and all the way to Russia"

🔖| The Red Baron - Manfred von Richtofen

extra:

Heard somewhere eddie literally named his plane "blue baron" , he's definitely a fan

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[tintenspion]

Have you read the big three???

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[theworldofwars]

Canadian machine gunners on Vimy Ridge. 1917

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[bobbyzombiegg]

A funny thing in bloodborne is that Molotov cocktails exist, which means that both WW1 and WW2 happened in the bloodborne timeline. Molotov cocktails are named after Vyacheslav Molotov, a Soviet Minister. During the Winter war between the Soviets and the Finns, Molotov claimed that the bombs they were dropping over Finland were actually humanitarian food deliveries, for their starving neighbors. In response, the Finn's named Molotov cocktails after Molotov to mock him. They said it was "a drink to go with his food parcels". Molotov was also extremely important in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany just before WW2. Thus, these events had to have happened for Molotov Cocktails to be named so in Bloodborne. This is a joke obviously, don't take it seriously.

#ww1 history #ww2 history #molotov cocktail #vyacheslav molotov #winter war #finland #soviet russia #soviet union #bloodborne #soulsborne #cool history facts

[silly-tanks-and-other-things]

This is the Ford Model 1918 3-Ton tank.

Designed in 1918 by the Ford Motor Company, it was one of the first American tanks ever produced.

The M1918 weighed only 3 tons, as the full name suggests. It was an incredibly small tank, measuring 4.3 metres (14 ft) long, 1.8 metres (6 ft) wide, and 1.8 metres tall, and having just two crew members (one driver, one gunner) in its extremely cramped hull.

Despite its engines having been pulled right out of a Ford Model T and getting discribed as anemic, the M1918 had a fairly quick top speed for the time at 12.8 km/h (8 miles/h)

Those silly arms on the back of the tank help it avoid getting stuck in ditches!

Despite being intended as a light tank, the first two prototypes didn't even have a gun. They were effectively just lightly armoured boxes that you could sit a person in.

The idea behind the M1918 was that it would be used to safely transport soldiers and weaponry onto a battlefield, though it didn't end up being very good at that.

This thing was a death box :D

It was based off of the French Renault FT-17, but is worse in almost every way possible.

When the final design of the M1918 eventually got to have a machine gun, it would still be incredibly limited in its use due to an extremely small range of motion. And although the tank does have angled armoured plating unlike SOME early tanks (looking at you, Sturmpanzerwagen A7V), the armour thickness was only a maximum of half an inch thick, leaving it vulnerable to anti-tank weaponry and concentrated machine gun fire.

On both the FT-17 and the M1918, the engines are located directly behind the crew compartment. The FT-17 has a metal divider between the engines and crew to give them time to escape in case of an engine fire.

The M1918 doesn't!

If you are operating this tank and the engines catch fire, you are dead!

Isn't that wonderful? :D

The US Army had a contract with Ford to produce 15 thousand M1918s, though testing proved the use of the tank to be quite limited compared to the readily available FT-17s. Production was halted after WW1 ended, with only 15 tanks being fully complete, and not one of them ever saw combat.

The two surviving M1918s are located in the National Armor and Cavalry Museum in Fort Benning, Georgia and the Ordnance Collection in Fort Lee, Virginia.

Sources: X , X

#This tank is such a deathbox though #I was literally screaming while researching this #history #tankposting #tanks #ww1 history #ww1 tanks #American tanks #American history

[dronescapesvideos]

Eddie Rickenbacker: From Race Car Driver To Flying Ace.

VIDEO ➤➤ https://youtu.be/bTFPYpvl8FY

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[hansjoachimarseille]

A dog with style 💅

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[er1chartmann]

Erwin Rommel during WW1

These are some facts and curiosities about Erwin Rommel during WW1:

When the First World War broke out, Rommel was employed on the Western Front in the offensive led by the German army against the joint French and British armies.

Rommel earned his first decoration on 24 September 1914, when he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class following an individual attack on five French soldiers in a forest near Varennes.

He was awarded the highest German military honour, the Order Pour le Mérite, which he received for the leadership skills demonstrated, with the rank of lieutenant, on the Italian front especially during the Battle of Caporetto in autumn 1917.

He  was promoted to the rank of captain in January 1918.

For a time, Rommel served in the same infantry regiment as Friedrich Paulus, who, like Rommel, rose to the rank of Field Marshal during World War II.

He was wounded three times during the war

Sources:

Wikipedia: Erwin Rommel

Military Wiki: Erwin Rommel

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