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Artillery of World War I. The artillery of World War I, improved over that used in previous wars, influenced the tactics, operations, and strategies that were used by the belligerents. This led to trench warfare and encouraged efforts to break the resulting stalemate at the front. World War I raised artillery to a new level of importance on the ...
The new German area defence system failed badly at Verdun 15 December 1916 and again at Arras 9 April 1917, when troops had been kept in obsolete defences and by the belated commitment of the counter-attacking divisions, which were held too far back, against Allied attacking methods and equipment which were much improved from 1916.
Railroad ploughs were in use by the Czechoslovak Army during the German occupation in 1938, [2] and by German Wehrmacht armed forces retreating northward through Italy [1] and westward from the Eastern Front in World War II. The German author Arno Schmidt (1914–1979) in his post-war novel Leviathan uses the image of a railroad plough as a ...
World War I[ j ] or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting took place mainly in Europe and the Middle East, as well as in parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific, and in Europe was characterised by ...
German airship Schütte Lanz SL2 bombing Warsaw in 1914. 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.
Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I. Coordinates: 0°N 25°W. Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I. Part of the U-boat campaign of World War I. A German postcard depicting the U-boat SM U-20 sinking RMS Lusitania. Date. 8 August 1914 – 20 October 1918. (1914-08-08 – 1918-10-20) Location.
Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. It became archetypically associated with World War I (1914–1918), when the Race to the Sea rapidly expanded trench use on ...
Trench code. Trench codes (a form of cryptography) were codes used for secrecy by field armies in World War I. [1][2] Messages by field telephone, radio and carrier pigeons could be intercepted, hence the need for tactical World War I cryptography. Originally, the most commonly used codes were simple substitution codes, but due to the relative ...