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This image shows the German crew of a 210mm Gun. I suspect the gun is a 21cm Mörser 10. The picture was taken in January 1917, just prior to the retreat to the Hindenburg Line in February and came at a time when the Allies were starting to apply pressure all along the Western Front. The crew of this gun usually comprised 6 men, but there are 12 in the image, so I suspect an adjacent crew came across solely for the purpose of the photograph.
The reverse of the image states in German, 'The Iron Defence of the West'.
Three members of the 119th Grenadier Regiment "Königin Olga" of the XIII Württemberg Corps operating an MG08 machine gun as an anti-aircraft weapon. Circa 1915.
German soldiers with captured British Mark IV tank. Fontaine-Notre-Dame, Dec 1917.
A German 24.5cm trench mortar (exactly named 24 cm schwerer LadungsWerfer Ehrhardt) being used by French soldiers in a trench on the Somme front, 1917.
OMG! They look soo miserable.
"If brute force doesn't work you aren't using enough brute force." - mTk
War does not determine who is right, but it does determine who is left. - B.Russell
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"Overkill is underrated." - Col John "Hannibal" Smith
Senatus Populusque Romanus- SPQR - The Senate and People of Rome (circa 60 BC)
A line of German infantry takes position along a trench during the brutal stalemate of the First World War, rifles leveled across the barren expanse of no-man’s-land. Wearing the distinctive spiked Pickelhaube helmets of the early war years and carrying long Mauser rifles with fixed bayonets, the soldiers brace themselves along the earthworks as they prepare to fire on approaching enemy forces. The stark landscape, broken only by barbed wire and scarred ground, captures the grim reality of trench warfare on the Western Front—where discipline, endurance, and tight formations often meant the difference between survival and annihilation. 🪖
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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Despite being susceptible to aerial attack, balloons would still be used in the First World War as observation posts and bombing platforms.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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Two young German soldiers stand in a narrow trench during the war for the photo.
German prisoner smoking a cigarette pose for the camera next to his British guard following the Actions of the St. Eloi Craters, March 27, 1916.
German soldiers in a trench position during WWI—note the Stahlhelm worn by the front soldier, introduced later in the war.
Actually these are Austro-Hungarian troops. Note the epaulets on both soldiers as well as the feldcap which the soldier in the background wears.
See link below.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205355208
German soldier from the 2nd Battalion.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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Soldier with a telephone wire drum in shell ruined and deserted city.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
Looking for a game? Challenge me here:
Truppenübungsplatz (military training ground), Elsenborn, Germany. Photograph by Alexander Herld, 1915. Soldiers pose with a studio aircraft prop for a souvenir image.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
Looking for a game? Challenge me here:
German soldiers generate power to inflate an observation balloon. 1914.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
Looking for a game? Challenge me here:
The German entry to that year's "Tour de France". 😉
One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
- George Orwell, Homage To Catalonia