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American troops celebrating the Armistice.

 

 

 

Days like that must make everything else in life seem minor.

 

 

The joy of the Armistice was short-lived when Carl Johnson of Lincoln, Nebraska, a veteran of ten battles going "over the top", was killed by a falling steel helmet....

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Canadian soldiers with German officer POW's, Battle of Vimy Ridge 1917

 

That first officer looks straight out of Hogans Heros.

 

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Jewish German Soldiers celebrating Hanuka in Russia 1916

 

 

 

I wonder how many of them survived WWII and their grateful nation.

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Parade through London in 1918

 

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Tank Week' in Preston was 21st to 28th January 1918

 

 

London

 

 

 

Toronto

 

 

Melbourne Victory March, July 1919.

 

 

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Great pictures.

 

Richthofen's room in East Prussia decorated with trophies from his kills.

 

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Colored photos, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2695644/The-horror-war-youve-never-seen-Reproduced-breathtaking-colour-dramatic-photographs-WW1-carnage-courage.html

 

 

Bloodbath and mudbath Seven stretcher bearers struggle to carry a wounded man to safety in Flanders during the battle of Passchendaele in 1917. Prolonged shelling destroyed drainage ditches and turned the area around the shattered town of Ypres into a quicksand of impassable sucking mud that would bog down wounded men and drown them


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German Observation Balloon, Equancourt, France September 22, 1916

 

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What is the purpose of the right section of the balloon?

 

I think its a kind of tail to stop it spinning around & tangling its anchor cables. It's not very clear in this view but there are tail plane sections too. If you scroll down to Fig. 2 you can see them clearly here:http://www.allworldwars.com/The-German-Air-Force-In-The-Great-War-by-Neumann.html

 

British & French balloons also had a tailplane arrangement, I think this is French http://digital.nls.uk/first-world-war-official-photographs/pageturner.cfm?id=74548640, and there's a Brit one near the bottom here: http://www.fsww1.com/documentation/aircraft.html

 

[edited to add] just for interests sake Equancourt is on the Somme, ten miles south-east of Bapaume, opposite the southern half of the British attack sector on 1 July 1916

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