Many weapons of the modern age first entered the combat stage during the First World War, but the uniforms of a century ago still reflected the trends of the previous centuries more than the high-tech gear of today. Join Pop Mech Pro and get exclusive answers to your most pressing science...
During World War I(第一次世界大战)while American soldiers felt very 1 /ha:t/in their wool uniforms, European soldiers tookoff 2 (they) heavy jackets and wore alight-weight cotton shirt. They called themundershirts because they wore them under theirclothing. So American soldiers took this ...
Light machine gun used by both British and American infantry and aircraft in WW1. 4 366 votes Vickers Machine Gun Widely-deployed British machine gun, used extensively on the Western Front. 5 354 votes M1903 Springfield Standard American rifle at the end of the war. Was still used by snip...
Uniforms 15. Others D. Campaigns and Operations 1. Land War a. France and Flanders b. Russian Front c. Dardanelles, Gallipoli, and Balkans d. Italian Theater e. Other Theaters 2. War in the Air a. General Sources b. American Air Role c. Foreign Air Services 3. Naval Power and World...
They made uniforms, rolled bandages, and campaigned for the sale of Liberty Bonds to help finance the war.④American manufacturers offered jobs to large numbers of black Americans for the first time as a result of the war. Most factories were located in the North. To take advantage of these...
World War I, also called the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Wars, began in Europe in 1914. But it was not until April 6, 1917—100 years ago—that the United States Congress declared war against Germany. The American Expeditionary Force was organized and sent ...
This title presents battle uniforms, personal equipment, insignia and weapons of the infantrymen of the Great War illustrated in detail. Original surviving uniforms, harness and weapons - assembled from rare private collections - are illustrated in full on live models, just as they were worn on ...
The contract required the stadium to be built in just three months. But when labor issues threatened its completion, “American engineers and labor troops, in their olive drab uniforms, worked night and day on the stadium along with a force of about 300 French soldiers” in order to get it...
of several occupations that gave women opportunities to don uniforms where none had existed before in history. Civilian wartime organizations, although chaired by male members of the business elite, boasted all-female volunteer workforces. Women performed the bulk of volunteer work during the war.11...
When Studs Terkel titled his 1984 oral history of the American experience in World War Two The Good War, he meant it ironically. Terkel’s book is full of accounts of G. I.s and civilians who could still, decades afterward, think of themselves as casualties. Thanks, however, to Tom Brok...