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Trench Warfare

Life in the Trenches

Trench Foot

Trench Foot

Trench Foot

No-Man’s Land

No-Man’s Land

No-Man’s Land

New Technology Airplanes

New Weapons: Airplanes

New Weapons: Zeppelins

New Technology Tanks

New Weapons: Tanks

New Weapons: Machine Guns

New Weapons: Machine Guns

New Weapons: Machine Guns

New Weapons: Flame Throwers (“Flammenwerfer‘”)

New Weapons: Flame Throwers

New Technology U – Boats and ships “Unterseeboot”

New Weapons: U-Boats

New Weapons: Mustard Gas

British infantry from the 47th (1/2nd London) Division advancing into a gas cloud during the Battle of Loos

British soldiers installing gas projectors

Soldier with mustard gas burns (1917)

British 55th (West Lancashire) Division troops blinded by tear gas await treatment at an Advanced Dressing Station near Bethune during the Battle of Estaires, 10 April 1918, part of the German offensive in Flanders.

Soldiers with a mustard gas burn, 1918

Gas Masks

British Vickers machine gun crew wearing PH-type anti-gas helmets British Vickers machine gun crew wearing PH-type anti-gas helmets. Near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916. The gunner is wearing a padded waistcoat, enabling him to carry the machine gun barrel

Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (1833-1913) "To win, we must endeavor to be the stronger of the two at the point of impact. Our only hope of this lies in making our own choice of operations, not in waiting passively for whatever the enemy chooses for us." —Schlieffen

Schlieffen Plan