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Posted: 10/6/2021 11:53:36 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/1gLXqxb.jpg The torpedo room of a WW1 German U-boat, 1917 https://i.imgur.com/INKpei3.png French soldiers camouflaging a 370 mm railway gun on September 5th, 1917 I always found the huge railway guns to be fascinating. |
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Posted: 10/6/2021 12:08:16 PM EST
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Posted: 10/6/2021 1:35:21 PM EST
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My WWI and WWI Revolvers.
  Colt M1917 S&W M1917 S&W Victory Model in .38/200 sent to the UK as Lend Lease Aid Colt Official Police in .38/200 purchased by the British Purchasing Commission in 1940 prior to Lend Lease Aid in WWII |
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Posted: 10/13/2021 8:38:42 PM EST
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Posted: 10/13/2021 9:31:47 PM EST
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My great-grandfather:
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Posted: 10/13/2021 9:37:48 PM EST
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French soldiers from Senegal
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Posted: 10/13/2021 9:42:31 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Miami_JBT: My WWI and WWI Revolvers. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/122381/20211005_133512-2119452.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/122381/20211005_134613-2119451.jpg Colt M1917 S&W M1917 S&W Victory Model in .38/200 sent to the UK as Lend Lease Aid Colt Official Police in .38/200 purchased by the British Purchasing Commission in 1940 prior to Lend Lease Aid in WWII @Miami_JBT Does the Official police have a Woolwich proof on it? Here's one on one of my pre-LL Mossberg 42 MBs.  Another on a M1928 Thompson.  They set-up a proofing facility in NYC and proofed the pre-LL arms before they shipped....They were just going around and buying guns off the shelf as well as from the manufactures that would sell to them. Many were lost to U-Boat action so a Woolwich proofed US manufactured firearm is sorta rare. From what I understand they paid in gold. 
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Posted: 10/13/2021 10:11:45 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Brundoggie: Looks like it can shoot around corners.  Once. |
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Posted: 10/14/2021 1:15:54 AM EST
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I've spent the last 3.5 hours closely studying every single picture in this thread. I don't even know what to say. God bless those men. I've been trying to imagine what it would've been like to be there but I can't even fathom that horror.
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Posted: 10/18/2021 4:25:47 PM EST
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I'm watching your avatar for 3.5 minutes. Damn.
 Mt. Marmolada is the highest relief of the Dolomites, having its top at Punta Penia at 3343 m a.s.l.; it hosts a large glacier on the northern slope. During the First World War, the summit of Mt. Marmolada was the site of fighting in the years 1916 and 1917. Thanks to the initiative of an Austrian official, Lieutenant Leo Handl, the troops opened underground passages inside the glacier allowing the soldiers to carry supplies to advanced positions without being exposed to enemy fire. Quickly, several large shelters and 12 km of tunnels were excavated giving rise to the Eisstadt (Ice City). During the war, tunnels were deformed by the glacier dynamics, which was more active than at present. In November 1917 the Ice City was abandoned. The Marmolada glacier was reached by the “White War” only in 1916, when the Alpini of the Royal Italian Army clashed against the German Alpenkorps and the Austrian Standschützen occupying Punta Rocca and Punta Penia and repeatedly fought at about 3000 meters of altitude. The Austrian supply columns traveling along the Marmolada glacier were constantly hit by the shootings of Italians perched on Cresta di Serauta, undergoing continuous and heavy losses of men and material. The Austrian Lieutenant Leo Handl (Innsbruck 1887-1966) had the idea to create a network of tunnels and caves dug in the glacial body that allowed to move under the protection of the ice and to get themselves behind the Italian lines without being seen. He gave rise to the Ice City, whose large structure would serve as a link between the station of the large cable car at the Col de Bous and the forward positions of Sasso delle Undici and Sasso delle Dodici. 12 f...en kilometers
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Posted: 10/25/2021 3:16:30 PM EST
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Posted: 11/3/2021 2:33:26 PM EST
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 Tank factory, England - 1917  German troops marching through the Georgian countryside, German Caucasus Expedition, 1918 German Caucasus expedition Never knew the Germans were that far in the east in WW1. |
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Posted: 11/3/2021 3:45:49 PM EST
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An Askari company ready to march in German East Africa.
 Portuguese troops embarking to Angola.  Portugal didn't do much fighting in Europe, but they sure did a lot of fighting in Africa chasing The Lion of Africa - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. |
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Posted: 11/3/2021 5:19:31 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Miami_JBT: An Askari company ready to march in German East Africa. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Bundesarchiv_Bild_105-DOA3056%2C_Deutsch-Ostafrika%2C_Askarikompanie.jpg Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Miami_JBT: An Askari company ready to march in German East Africa. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Bundesarchiv_Bild_105-DOA3056%2C_Deutsch-Ostafrika%2C_Askarikompanie.jpg The Weimar Republic and pre-war Nazi Germany provided pension payments to the German askaris. Due to interruptions during the worldwide depression and World War II, the parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) voted in 1964 to fund the back pay of the askaris still alive. The West German embassy at Dar es Salaam identified approximately 350 ex-askaris and set up a temporary cashiers office at Mwanza on Lake Victoria. Only a few claimants could produce the certificates given to them in 1918; others provided pieces of their old uniforms as proof of service. The banker who had brought the money came up with an idea: each claimant was handed a broom and ordered in German to perform the manual of arms. Not one of them failed the test.[5] Germany paid pensions until the last of the Askaris died in the late 1990s. |
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Posted: 11/3/2021 6:45:41 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Miami_JBT: Portugal didn't do much fighting in Europe, but they sure did a lot of fighting in Africa chasing The Lion of Africa - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. If we could've stolen two leaders away from foreign lands, von Lettow-Vorbeck and Monash would have been my picks. |
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Posted: 11/16/2021 5:10:00 PM EST
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Hydrogen filled observation balloon explodes while being handled by ground crew at Fort Sill balloon school, 1918. 6 killed, 30 wounded.
 Attached File Attached FileDescription of a typical accident: "There was a red-headed kid that was bedding down one of the balloons one night just about dark, and he was putting sandbags on the rope around the balloon to hold it down for the night. He rubbed his head against the fabric and the static electricity set it afire and he was killed along with 3 or 4 others who were hurt." |
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Posted: 11/21/2021 4:42:37 PM EST
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 Target practice, 1903  British tanks captured and used by German forces being cut up for scrap after the Armistice in 1918  Pre WW1 Fowler B5 armoured road train A British armoured steam tractor built for the Boer War. Intended to haul a train of armoured supply wagons and deal with the problem of Boer hit-and-run attacks on British supply lines. Four engines were sent to South Africa in 1900 and 1901. But they were mostly operated without their armour. |
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Posted: 11/24/2021 7:39:20 AM EST
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Posted: 11/29/2021 12:06:48 PM EST
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Muslim soldiers of the Russian Imperial Army listen to Imam's sermon, Austrian front, September 1914.
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Posted: 12/8/2021 2:14:24 PM EST
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 AEG R.I, Germany |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 6:17:45 PM EST
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 DFW R.II |
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Posted: 12/12/2021 8:27:13 AM EST
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Posted: 12/12/2021 11:28:44 PM EST
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Looks like a bitch in a cross wind.
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Posted: 12/13/2021 6:59:04 AM EST
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 Capital ships of Austrian fleet anchored in front of their main war port of Pula, 1917  Rolls of barbed wire. Photo from behind the front of the Austro-Hungarian 1st Army, 1915  E-V/4 Panzerkraftwagen Ehrhardt M1915 armoured car of the Panzer Kraftwagen Maschinen Gewehr Abteilung 1 (P.K.M.G.A.1). Possibly in Kiev on the Ukranian Front in the Spring of 1918. |
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Posted: 12/16/2021 5:37:13 PM EST
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 Linke Hofmann R.II 42.16m /138 ft 4 in wingspan, largest single propeller ever built, some 6.9 meters in diameter, 1919 |
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Posted: 12/18/2021 1:57:08 PM EST
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 Spy basket of LZ 19, the seventh airship built for the German army in 1913. It was lowered up to a mile under the airship below the clouds. The occupant phoned in when to drop bombs. |
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Posted: 12/19/2021 5:19:03 PM EST
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 A Landwehr Zug (C-Zug type) carrying a Skoda mortar. |
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Posted: 12/26/2021 6:33:46 PM EST
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 Siemens-Schuckert Forssman R  Krupp Ballon Kanone |
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Posted: 12/27/2021 3:49:20 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/XISPcm2.jpg Spy basket of LZ 19, the seventh airship built for the German army in 1913. It was lowered up to a mile under the airship below the clouds. The occupant phoned in when to drop bombs. "I need a volunteer!" |
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Posted: 12/27/2021 4:18:04 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CarlosC: "I need a volunteer!" Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CarlosC: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/XISPcm2.jpg Spy basket of LZ 19, the seventh airship built for the German army in 1913. It was lowered up to a mile under the airship below the clouds. The occupant phoned in when to drop bombs. "I need a volunteer!" If they tell me to get in there it better hold three people....me and the two armed guards keeping me there. |
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Posted: 12/27/2021 5:36:31 PM EST
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First American soldier and first Harley-Davidson to enter Germany.
 Indian motorcycle and sidecar converted to a stretcher carrier.  British dispatch rider on a Triumph 550 Model H.  Excelsior motorcycle.  Indian motorcycles. 
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Posted: 12/27/2021 6:37:35 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BikerNut: First American soldier and first Harley-Davidson to enter Germany. https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uK1bFgvMs5Y/U2EfCMNsMCI/AAAAAAAAL18/XzsF6Wq-YSk/s1600/Yank01.jpg Indian motorcycle and sidecar converted to a stretcher carrier. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uoYgh5zm1Io/UQNJCoqPCSI/AAAAAAAAFn4/ma4Xnws6atk/s1600/IndianAmbulance2-WWI.jpg British dispatch rider on a Triumph 550 Model H. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ce/f6/3e/cef63e4344e78a0fe09ee4d0d2809b90.jpg Excelsior motorcycle. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gJUS9qc2xVI/UQNI9a3FDvI/AAAAAAAAFmo/h0kvOTUoqqg/s1600/Excelsior-WWI.jpg Indian motorcycles. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TtJa_m8B-6U/UQNJH441iAI/AAAAAAAAFo8/p8_7cKUEnbY/s1600/TwoIndians-WWI.jpg My Grandfather was a motorcycle messenger in France. |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 5:30:06 PM EST
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 Royal Navy M-class submarine sailing past RMS Aquitania. The 3 submarines of the class were armed with a single 12 inch gun, you can see the tompion that seals the end of the barrel.  AWM caption : "Aerial view of the Royal Navy M Class submarine M1 heading out to sea. Note the 12 inch gun mounted forward of the conning tower and the distinctive camouflage scheme." |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 5:31:31 PM EST
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 Siemens-Schuckert R.VIII, 1918 |
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Posted: 1/1/2022 8:12:38 PM EST
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Posted: 1/2/2022 10:14:56 AM EST
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Posted: 1/7/2022 4:42:51 PM EST
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 Paris Gun repost.  This gun is still fascinating me. Too bad that all plans are gone.    Caproni Ca.4 series, a WW1 Italian bomber with one of the largest bomb capacities of the time, only surpassed by the Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI. Around 50 aircraft were built. Caproni was nuts: Ca.60 |
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Posted: 1/9/2022 3:58:15 PM EST
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 During the First World War, rubber became a scarce commodity so the search began for its replacement. German bicycle Herrenrad Victoria Model 12. |
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Posted: 1/15/2022 10:24:25 PM EST
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  The Wire of Death - The Unknown Victims of the First World War |
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Posted: 1/16/2022 10:16:04 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/7hHLzSn.jpg During the First World War, rubber became a scarce commodity so the search began for its replacement. German bicycle Herrenrad Victoria Model 12. I am very curious what the ride on that would feel like. Probably not good, but I’d love to try it … at least once.
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Posted: 1/16/2022 11:38:15 AM EST
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Letters from France from my grandfather to my grandmother.
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Posted: 1/16/2022 6:26:18 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DK-Prof: I am very curious what the ride on that would feel like. Probably not good, but I’d love to try it … at least once. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DK-Prof: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/7hHLzSn.jpg During the First World War, rubber became a scarce commodity so the search began for its replacement. German bicycle Herrenrad Victoria Model 12. I am very curious what the ride on that would feel like. Probably not good, but I’d love to try it … at least once. @DK-PRO I found this site early in the covid lockdown. I'm not really a bicycle guy, but I do love history. Check this link out. I posted it earlier in the thread. I still enjoy riding a bike, but most of the time I'm walking or hiking. |
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Posted: 1/21/2022 7:45:39 AM EST
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 Stacked side by side were Long barreled (60” in or more) Chinese Jingal wall guns (captured by Imperial Japanese troops) used by the Chinese insurgents known as the "Boxers" secret society, against an Eight Nation military Alliance, during the Boxer Rebellion in Qing China, c. 1900. I know, not WW1, but this is the best place to post it. |
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Posted: 1/21/2022 9:06:02 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/1gLXqxb.jpg The torpedo room of a WW1 German U-boat, 1917 https://i.imgur.com/INKpei3.png French soldiers camouflaging a 370 mm railway gun on September 5th, 1917 that Torpedo Room is straight up Jules Verne. |
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Posted: 1/21/2022 11:17:07 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LawyerUp: Found these in an old house I'm restoring. The elderly lady who lived there's father was in WW1, and this stuff was just sitting in a drawer. German bino case w/ various German infantry buttons, his patches, helmet, gas mask, etc. I found pics of his unit. They were all over France. That's a pic of him relaxing on the porch swing after the war. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/277223/0A47A0BD-312E-4151-AC53-04156FCBF7EA_jpg-1284056.JPG |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:04:56 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/1xiJtyb.jpg I know, not WW1, but this is the best place to post it. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/1xiJtyb.jpg Stacked side by side were Long barreled (60” in or more) Chinese Jingal wall guns (captured by Imperial Japanese troops) used by the Chinese insurgents known as the "Boxers" secret society, against an Eight Nation military Alliance, during the Boxer Rebellion in Qing China, c. 1900. I know, not WW1, but this is the best place to post it. Damn , now I’m going to need a taller safe |
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Posted: 1/26/2022 10:29:24 AM EST
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SS Kanguroo, commercial transport built by the shipbuilder Schneider et Cie in 1912 to deliver submarines to Brazil and Peru. Requisitioned by the French Navy in 1914 as a mobile drydock/recovery ship, sunk 1916 at anchor at Madeira by U-38
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Posted: 2/6/2022 10:12:50 AM EST
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 A pair of modified A7Vs equipped with only MGs used by the Freikorps of Germany against Communist Revolutionaries during the November Revolution of 1918. The tanks would be handed over to the Allies after the revolution was subdued. |
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Posted: 2/18/2022 2:19:40 PM EST
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Posted: 2/25/2022 5:02:40 PM EST
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 WWI, Sept 2, 1918: Carpenters at work on propellors in a German aeroplane factory. |
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