Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Mark I trench knife is an American trench knife designed by officers of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) for use in World War I. It has a 6.75 in (17.1 cm) double-edged dagger blade useful for both thrusting and slashing strokes, unlike previous U.S. trench knives such as the M1917 and M1918.
Trench art is any decorative item made by soldiers, prisoners of war, or civilians [citation needed] where the manufacture is directly linked to armed conflict or its consequences. It offers an insight not only to their feelings and emotions about the war, but also their surroundings and the materials they had available to them. [ 1 ]
A trench knife is a combat knife designed to kill or incapacitate an enemy at close quarters, such as in a trench or other confined area. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was developed as a close combat weapon for soldiers attacking enemy trenches during the First World War .
An example of a French nail. French nails were locally fabricated and converted bayonets, knives and stabbing weapons for use in the First World War.These were crude stabbing spikes made by adding a point to a steel stake which had its rearmost section heated and bent into a crude handle.
The Wipers Times was a trench magazine that was published by British soldiers fighting in the Ypres Salient during the First World War.. In early 1916, the 12th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters stationed in the front line at Ypres, Belgium, came across an abandoned printing press.
The images were taken within 15–30 minutes of each other by an inmate inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only as Alex, a Jewish prisoner from Greece, the photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando , inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers.
And then you also have Courtney Stodden, the reality star who makes every red carpet appearance a total show! At an after party following the 2017 Oscars, Stodden accidentally ...
Dorothy Lawrence (4 October 1896 – 29 August 1964) was an English journalist who posed as a male soldier to report from the front line during World War I. In 1915, she went to France, where she managed to obtain a military uniform and a false identity.