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TRENCH WARFAREGas and guns
First time trenches used extensively in warNarrow zig-zags – one behind other8 feet deepDuckboards to stop drowningRats, lice, dead friends
GAS A Slow and painful death
New weapons of WWI
Mustard: faint smell. Yellowish – blistered and burned all exposed skin.Chlorine/Diphosgene: dissolved lungs by forming acid when in contact with moist areas (used in projector cannisters later in war)
Tearing agents also used – like today’s mace.
GUNS - little onesCanadians get Ross Rifles - jam with mud.
Steal Enfield Rifles from dead Brits.
Bayonets? Useless in modern warfare
Machine Guns Introduced – Britain - Vickers; German - Maxim
German Maxim: Designed by an
American. Killed 90% of casualties of first day of the Somme (more than
20,000 men)
AND BIG ONES (Artillery) First big guns on boats –
needed at Front and so converted to land use
Howitzers/Mortars – big guns on wheels/or rails – shells fired up and landed down.
Cannon – fires shells head on.
Weighed tonsBest Howitzer could fire 70
miles in 170 seconds- but no accuracy.
Technology of killing
British 60-lb Gun
Howitzer: These siege guns were used by the Germans to soften forts. The shells they fired weighed 1,786 lbs and they could fire one every 6 minutes.
TANKS
New in WWIArmed with big guns (shells) and machine guns (bullets)Weighed between 6 and 30 tonnes!Crews from 3-20Many could go over trenchesMade to move in the mud
Canadians on a British Mark IV:
Top speed 4 mph
Good Armour
Armed with either 2 6 lb. guns and 3 machine guns or 5 machine guns
NOISY & SLOW BUT DEADLY
British Whippet: 8 mph, but less
firepower. 3 man crew. Gas tank
outside!
German Sturmpanzerwagen
A7V
Sturm = Storm, Panzer = Amour, Wagen = Car
Best armour, 1 main gun, 6 machine guns
War on the waterNavy thought to be key to war - build-up
Battleships armed to teeth – Dreadnaughts and Battle Cruisers
German U-boats taking out British ships
British stop sailing. Fleet sits!
HMS Dreadnought –
Built 1906 – More than 30
models followed before WWI!!!
U-BOATS
UC 44 Class U-boat: 1) Aft torpedo tubes 2) Electric motor 3) Main engine
4) Control room 5) Mine tubes 6) Forward torpedo tubes 7) Crew quarters
Took out supply ships too: Lusitania which brought U.S.
into War.
In 1917 there were 146 U-boats on
patrol
BATTLE IN THE SKIESZeppelins used by Germans to bomb civilians (only 557 died!)Barely 10 years after Wright’s first flight – planes used to wage warHundreds of models were rushed off production lines
German Zeppelin
56 mph; deadly bomb
droppers
PLANES AND ACES I
Sopwith Camel – most victorious model: Canadian aces loved this plane! Roy Brown took out Manfred von Richthofen flying this plane. Don McLaren shot down 54 planes in his Camel!
Neiuport 17 -
Flown by famous Billy Bishop: 25 victories in 12 days
Planes and aces II
Fokker D. VII: The best German plane of the war: Richthofen’s (The Red Baron, with 80 victories) favorite.
Albatross III: An improvement on two earlier models… but the wings kept breaking
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