Photos WW1 Germany and her Allies

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Turkish soldiers in a covered shelter at Kanle Sirt. 1915

 

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26 June 1918. Austrian soldiers in the trenches near the Piave river, Northeast Italy

 

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Taken near Abbeville, France. A crowd of German prisoners taken by the British Fourth Army in the Battle of Amiens, 27 August 1918.

 

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German soldier dives for cover as shell explodes somewhere in the Western Front, 1917.

 

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'First Battle of the Marne' (6 to 12 September 1914)
German wounded in front of Varreddes Town Hall, northern France. 11 September 1914
The German wounded, forsaken during the hasty retreat of September 9, were sheltered and nursed at the town-hall.
When leaving the village the Germans took twenty hostages with them, all very old, among them being the vicar, only three survived.

 

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A German Regimental Commander, second from the left, with his Adjutant and Staff being held as prisoners of war in an enclosure at St Jean.
This group were captured in a dugout at Poelcapelle during the battle of Broodseinde, Third Ypres offensive. 4th Oct 1917

In the early hours of 4th of October, twelve divisions of British and Australian troops moved silently into position for the third stage of General Herbert Plumer's drive to secure the ridges to the east of Ypres. The objectives were about fifteen hundred yards away, and the advance would be covered by a creeping barrage, which would protect them while they consolidated their positions.
Before the attack began, the Australian troops were heavily shelled on their start line, losing about a seventh of their number as casualties. The Germans had chosen the same day - just fifteen minutes later - to launch their own attack, and as the Allied troops advanced, they were confronted by advancing Germans.
The Australians fought through the German advance and took their objectives, but suffered 6,500 casualties as they fought to take the well-defended German pillboxes.

 

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WW1 German aircraft and a few prominent aces.

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A few more German aircraft and prominent pilots.

It would take a lot of horsepower to get all that lumber in the air!

 

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Wow, Great pics......Thanks for posting for us!!

 

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(might be posed - notice the squared away kit)

 

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Great WWI pics, thanks for posting.......

 

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WW1 German aircraft and a few prominent aces.

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A Sanke card of Lieutenant Heldmann .An engineering student, Heldman enlisted in the army on 3 January 1915. After serving with an infantry regiment on the Eastern Front, he transferred to aviation and was posted to FA 57 in the summer of 1915. After gaining combat experience, he joined Jasta 10 on 24 June 1917 and scored 15 confirmed victories by the end of the war. His last plane was a yellow-nosed Fokker D.VII with a white and black checkerboard tail and his initials on the top wing. With the signing of the Armistice, he returned to engineering before joining the Luftwaffe in 1933. he later went on to be a flying instructor and was released by the Allies in 1946.

 

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The breakthrough west of St. Quentin, Aisne, France. Artillery drawn by horses advances through captured British positions on March 26, 1918.

 

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AV-7 tank "Adalbert" with two of its crew being transported upon a railway flat car. June 1918

 

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The German observation point known as ‘Anzac blockhouse’ was the main objective of the Australian 18th Battalion attack on the left flank of Australian Corps.
From Inferno Chapter 10:
The blockhouse, which housed two machine-guns, was seemingly invulnerable to the battering it was taking from the artillery. The attackers crept up from the flanks and the first man there ‘pressed his body against the concrete and rolled in a grenade’ Joe Maxwell wrote. There was a muffled roar and ‘the muzzle of the machine gun hung uselessly through the loophole’. Several wounded Germans stumbled out from the smoke-filled chamber below. ‘The pillboxes or concrete forts of the Hun proved a death trap for them,’ Alex McKay wrote. ‘Our boys slaughtered hundreds of them at these posts and for a radius of 20 or 30 yards the ground is covered with dead Huns.
The remains of the blockhouse forms the floor of the farm building with the green door.
The painting by A Pearse depicts the planting of the Australian flag on the captured position by Lieutenant Arthur Hull of the 18th Battalion.
The blue German signal flag was captured from the blockhouse.