The WWI Experience 19141918

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The WWI Experience1914-1918

• Over 8.5 Million Dead

Over 21 Million Wounded
Over 7.5 Million Missing
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The Balkans Powder Keg of Europe
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand and Family
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Gavrilo Princip, the Assassin
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World War I Weapons

• New Technologies on Land

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British Little Willie
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British Whippet (8mph)
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French Light Tank
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German AV7 16man crew
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British Tank Stuck in German Trench
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Big Bertha
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Austrian Howitzer
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US Military
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Artillery on railroad tracks
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Dummy French Artillery Made of Paper
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Fake mortars
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Hotel in Verdun Before
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Hotel in Verdun After
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Village of Esnes Before
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Village of Esnes After
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Palace of Justice, Senlis (Before)
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Palace of Justice, Senlis (After)
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German Maxim Machine Gun
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Machine Gun Team
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German Machine Gun Team
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Hidden German gun placement
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Preparing to go Over the Top
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Bayonets for Hand to Hand Combat
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Over the Top
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Water-filled Trench in France
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Trench Foot
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U.S Engineers Clear German Wire Entanglements
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Sgt. Alvin York
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German Remains at Verdun
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Russian Soldier dead on wire
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French Soldier Executed as a Spy
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German Soldier Surfaces in Spring
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Allied Soldier and Rat Problem
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Phosphorus grenade
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French flamethrowers
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French periscope rifle
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Trench Periscope
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French grenade launching crossbow
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French grenade rifles
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Gas shell explodes
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Early Gas Masks
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Allied soldiers after chlorine
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Canister Gas Mask
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Chlorine Gas Attack
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U.S. Transport Horses
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Effects of Mustard Gas
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Protection from chemical warfare
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Gas Masks for Man and Horse
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British Rations Arriving by Camel
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U.S. Army Signal Corps Carrier Pigeon
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German Sniper Suit and Armored Tree
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German telescoping searchlight
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Barbed Wired Forest
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French Wire-cutting Truck
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Bloodhounds Used to Locate Wounded Soldiers
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Horse-drawn Ambulance at Helles
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French Cemetery Near Verdun
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Argonne Cemetery, 1919
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World War I Weapons

• New Technologies in the Air

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Scouting Balloon
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Used for German Bombing
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British Armstrong (only 8 built)
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Caproni Ca. 36Bomber
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Bombs Dropped From Air
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British D.H.4 (Flaming Coffin)
Gas Tank
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German Albatross D.V. (wing failure)
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Austria-Hungary Aviatik (shed wing fabric and
lost wings and tail)
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British Avro 504 (1st plane to strafe ground
and 1st to be shot down by ground troops)
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French Breguet (scouting, bombing, and air
ambulance)
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Curtiss JN-4D
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Spowith F-1 Camel
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26 Victories for US AceEdward "Eddie"
Rickenbacker
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80 victories for Germanys Ace Manfred von
Richthofen
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80 victories for Germanys Ace Manfred von
Richthofen (The Red Baron/Red Devil)
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Listening and Looking for Aircraft
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If It FliesIt Dies!
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World War I Weapons

• New Technologies on the Seas

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Lusitania Sunk by German Torpedo
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Old British passenger ship made to look like a
battleship
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German U-Boats
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Sinking American Ship After German U-Boat Attack
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Allied Ship Dropping Depth Charges