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Sons O' Guns: Lloyd Bacon: Theatre actor with no desire to fight in WW1, fakes enlisting to impress his fiancée. Unbeknownst to him, he actually enlists. C, M P 1936 US Suzy: George Fitzmaurice: Espionage D 1936 US The Road to Glory: Howard Hawks: Remake of Les Croix de bois, trench warfare on the Western Front D 1937 France Grand Illusion: La ...
21 Weapons used in trench raids. 22 Concepts and prototypes. 23 References. ... Gatling gun (Pre World War 1) Field guns. Krupp 50mm Mountain Gun; Krupp 7.5 cm Model ...
These are depictions of diverse aspects of war in film and television, including but not limited to documentaries, TV mini-series, drama serials, and propaganda film.The list starts before World War I, followed by the Roaring Twenties, and then the Great Depression, which eventually saw the outbreak of World War II in 1939, which ended in 1945.
There were periods in which rigid trench warfare broke down, such as during the Battle of the Somme, but the lines never moved very far. The war would be won by the side that was able to commit the last reserves to the Western Front. Trench warfare prevailed on the Western Front until the Germans launched their Spring Offensive on 21 March 1918 ...
28 cm SK L/40 "Bruno" (28 cm SK L/40 gun naval guns were converted to railway guns) 38 cm SK L/45 "Max" (long range coast-defence gun and siege gun) 42 cm Gamma Mörser (siege gun) 42 cm kurze MK 14 L/12 (siege gun, also known as "Bertha") Ehrhardt 7.5 cm Model 1904 (mountain gun) Gruson 5.3cm L/24 Fahrpanzer (mobile artillery turret)
Despite the advent of new technologies like aircraft, machine guns, and armored vehicles, artillery was the primary weapon of land warfare in World War I. Artillery was the principal threat to ground troops in the war and was the main reason for the development of trench warfare. [6]
German infantrymen towing the minenwerfer in 1918 German troops using the minenwerfer as an anti-tank gun in October 1918. The Russo-Japanese War of 1905 had shown the value of mortars against modern fieldworks and fortifications and the Germans were in the process of fielding a whole series of mortars before the beginning of World War I.
Tanks came about as means to break the stalemate of trench warfare.They were developed to break through barbed wire and destroy enemy machine gun posts. The British and the French were the major users of tanks during the war; tanks were a lower priority for Germany as it assumed a defensive strategy.