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The Brattleboro Historical Society will unveil its historic markers project at a ceremony behind the Wells Fountain at 10 a.m ...
An early attempt to keep WWI fighter aircraft from blowing their own propellers to bits when firing was to simply add armor plating to the props, which did keep them from being shredded ...
The remains of a British soldier killed fighting in WW1 have been laid to rest – 108 years after his death. Private John Tame was 26 when he died at the Battle of Langemarck in August 1917.
“Encounters” uses cutting edge technology that lets WWI Museum goers interact with real people involved in World War I. (C/o WWI Museum and Memorial) The National WWI Museum and Memorial in ...
French troops were deployed within France and along the eastern frontier as part of ‘Plan 17’ which was a strategy devised by General Ferdinand Foch and ... #SimpleHistory #WW1 #History ...
Commander-in-chief of the Allied forces, Marshal Ferdinand Foch led the negotiations from a position of leverage -- ensuring that Germans could not dictate the terms. When the Deutsch side asked ...
Poppies pegged on the wall bearing the WWI dead soldiers' names at the military cemetery of the Australian National Memorial in Villers-Bretonneux, northern France. (Photo by PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP via ...
At 11am each year on November 11, a two-minute silence is held to remember the fallen soldiers who gave their lives during WW1. Another is also held at 11am on Remembrance Sunday. It’s an ...
Follow the harrowing history of the conflict with our WW1 chronology. November 11th 2018 marked the one ... signing of the Armistice in Supreme Allied Commander Marshal Ferdinand Foch’s railway ...