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The honours of James Ockendon will be sold by Nesbits Antiques Auctions in Clarendon Road, Southsea, on May 21. His Victoria ...
Germany stunned the world by hitting Paris from 75 miles away with a massive cannon that defied logic and changed the face of warfare. Known as the Paris Gun, it was hidden in Crépy and struck without ...
It was on April 6 in 1917, that the United States abandoned its stance of neutrality and officially joined the Allied powers ...
Indiana was home to many residents of German descent when World War I began. Many stopped speaking German outside and downplayed their heritage.
The PNE grounds have been used for a lot of things over the years, and artillery storage appears to have been one purpose ...
(250401) -- VANCOUVER, April 1, 2025 (Xinhua) -- A World War I-era field artillery piece is displayed at Hastings Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on April 1, 2025. The World War I-era ...
A piece of World War One field artillery has been found by crews excavating the site of a new amphitheater at the PNE grounds in Vancouver.
Canadian soldiers took many German artillery pieces home as “war trophies” after the First World War. Almost all have disappeared. But more than a century later, one has turned up three metres under ...
It was here, however, that the American “Doughboys” encountered their first serious opposition — the German Fifth Army ... On ...
He also served as a colonel in the 107th Field Artillery. By the time the war ended ... In the years after WWI, Wood Sr. was instrumental in the creation of the American Legion.