On 1 March 1916, the French printed a forgery of the GermanGazette des Ardennes. It was fully illustrated, and had paper, format, and font that were so similar to the German newspaper that it was difficult to identify as a French fake. Once again the German newspapers were furious. One ...
United Kingdom (1916) Landship – Design Only It has been over a century since the guns of WW1 fell silent. A war best known for mostly static trench warfare on the Western Front in France and Belgium as the great Empires of Britain, France, and German slugged out a 4 year-long brut...
Picture - Rickenbacker's uniform on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Pre-U.S. entry Rickenbacker wanted to join the Allied troops in World War I, but the U.S. had not yet entered the war. He had several chance encounters with aviators, including a fortuitous incident in which...
Minor alterations were necessary in many of the guns to make them adaptable to field mounts, and the Navy guns, ranging from 30 to 50 calibers in length, had to be cut down to a uniform length of 30 calibers. The long six-inch seacoast guns were not shortened becau...
The USA already had Army (1901) and Navy (1908) Nurse Corps and Wilson puts at 13,000 the number of women who "enlisted in the Navy and the Marine Corps on the same status as men and wore a uniform blouse with insignia" during WWI. "With the war's end", she adds, "the Coast ...