Wish I could make these pictures smaller .... so we could see them properly !! :confused: A Zeppelin Under Attack (1917) Two illustrations from...
Can I interest you in a French one ?? :rolleyes: http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/pdf/Burberrys5.pdf
Only 25 bob .... waterproof !! :D http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/pdf/British%20Uniform%20Rucksack.pdf
Good Grief ... here's another one ....... !! :D We are told that this unique image could only have been snapped in the more eccentric parts of...
This has to be a doctored photograph ... doesn't it ?? ;) Animals have played important rolls in war from the beginning and World War One was no...
A fascinating, two page article that does not simply confine itself to the issue of dogs in the service of the Red-Cross, but also makes mention of...
Carrier Pigeons on Land and Sea Illustrated with images of maimed and disfigured carrier pigeons - this article is filled with interesting lore...
The difficult task of wandering the war-torn countryside of Europe in search of fallen World War I American aviators fell to a U.S. Army captain...
This article is essentially a collection of lyrics from an assortment of songs sung by the Black Doughboys who were charged with the task of loading...
An article written by David Le Roy Ferguson (dates unknown), an African-American pastor assigned to minister to the black Doughboys posted to the...
This is a lovely piece - originally written in French for a village paper - in which a journalist describes the collective anticipation of the...
During June of 1917, the German Army introduced the "Lederschutzmasken", a leather gas mask made of specially treated Bavarian sheepskin with...
It is often believed that the Germans were the first to use chemical weapons during the Great War, but historians like to point out that they were...
When the Entente powers were first exposed to poisonous gas in the spring of 1915 their respective quartermasters scrambled to find a suitable...
The attached article,"Photography's Notable Part in the War" was written by an active participant in the aerial reconnaissance arm of the Royal...
Oh wow David ! ... I just posted another Capone story over on WW! but yours is a good one ! Al Capone: Chicago's Most Infamous Mob Boss - Crime...
Al Capone's oldest brother, James Vincenzo Capone, left his home in Brooklyn at the age of 16 in 1908. Always a strong-minded and independent boy,...
I think both nations had very special kinds of soldiers "if Australian attitudes were shaped by perceptions of American bravery and potential,...
What a shame she had to go ! :(
Oh yes ! that's better ... you can see it now !! :)
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