Survival World on MSN
How key WW1 weapons reshaped combat then - and still influence combat now
That rate of fire, combined with good marksmanship, turned ordinary soldiers into surprisingly effective long-range killers.
At 10:59 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, a German machine gun crew fired a burst of rounds at approaching Americans. One bullet struck 23-year-old Pvt. Henry Gunther in the left temple. He died instantly.
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (Sept. 13, 2012) -- For decades a pair of 21-cm Morser 16s was on display outside the Fort Meade Museum, exhibiting the German weaponry of World War I. In the early 1990s, ...
A lost German artillery gun from the First World War has been uncovered by stunned Canadian builders, an estimated 4,000 miles from where it was last fired. A construction crew unearthed the ...
The Tank Museum on MSN
Germany’s First Anti-Tank Weapons in WWI
Welcome to Anti-Tank Chats, a new series exploring the history of infantry weapons designed to combat tanks. In this first episode, Archive and Supporting Collections Manager Stuart Wheeler examines ...
The gut-wrenching diary of a Lieutenant written on the first day of the Somme, a battle which resulted in the deaths of around 300,000 soldiers, has been dug out 108 years on. The entry was penned by ...
MoD: WW1 machine gun, rifle and pistol among firearms lost or stolen amid calls for "urgent inquiry"
A World War One machine gun and other weaponry are among the items lost or stolen from the Ministry of Defence over the last two years. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can ...
A courageous Shotton man received the Victoria Cross for his bravery in the First World War. Lance Corporal Henry Weale overcame a German machine gun post and saved many comrades' lives. Known as ...
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