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May 10, 2024 · Photo Credit: 1. JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN / AFP / Getty Images 2. Frank Bienewald / LightRocket / Getty Images. World War I forever changed the European landscape, in terms of the loss of human life and the scars left behind in the earth via the digging of trenches and the explosive nature of artillery and other munitions.
May 28, 2018 · Sunlight highlights craters created by artillery bombardments during the fierce Battle of Les Eparges Hill during World War I on August 26, 2014, near Verdun, France.
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Oct 19, 2020 · The project allows users to search by address or move around London to see what areas were bombed. The date and type of bomb is explained for each marked location. This includes parachute mines and high explosive bombs. Different filters of the map also show key moments in the Blitz including maps of the first 24 hours and first week of bombing.
In this image by Irish landscape photographer Michael St. Maur Sheil at the site of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, you can trace grass-covered trenches and pockmarks from exploded...
Jul 9, 2017 · Planes had been used for bombardment missions during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-1912. Yet, aerial warfare during the First World War marked a rupture with these past examples. It was the first conflict during which aircraft were involved on a large scale and played a significant role. At the beginning of the war, the usefulness of air ...
Jan 21, 2021 · Ca. after 1901. The Mariners’ Museum MS0228-02–50. Named for Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart, Camp Stuart was constructed on a 309-acre tract overlooking Hampton Roads. It was the Army’s largest embarkation camp during the war with almost 115,000 soldiers passing through en route to Europe.
Strategic bombing during World War I (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was principally carried out by the United Kingdom and France for the Entente Powers and Germany for the Central Powers. Most of the belligerents of World War I eventually engaged in some form of strategic bombing. The aerial bombing of cities, intended to destroy the enemy ...
