A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy’s death
I wrote about my great-uncle Foster Stevens, who was killed nine days before the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended World ...
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WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives?
The machine-gun was a game-changing weapon of mass destruction ... In the battlefield conditions of WW1 this meant an average of 500 rounds a minute with a range of over 3,000 yards or 2,743m.
WATCH: Ukrainian Shooter Downs Russian Drone with WWI-Era Machine Gun
A brief clip shared online appears to show a spurt of gunfire before an explosion, purported to be the moment that rounds ...
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Vickers WW1 gun bought for £1k 'now worth nothing'
Gun expert Robert Tilney was excited to find a Vickers machine gun from 1917 A man who bought a World War One machine gun 20 years ago for £1,000 has been told it is now worthless by BBC Antiques ...
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Ukrainians on pickup trucks are using machine guns designed in WWI to stop Russian drones
Ukrainians are putting machine guns first designed in the US at the end of World War I on the back of pickup trucks to try to shoot down Russian drones and spy planes. Soldiers in Ukraine's 117th ...
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Falklands donated three aircraft to WW1 effort, and the five Spitfires in WW2
The observer was armed with one .303 Lewis Machine Gun firing forward. Later, another Lewis was added, mounted to fire backwards. This arrangement was described by Frederick Libby, the first ...
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WWI hero's Victoria Cross medal goes on display for first time
Old Broomfield Cemetery in Taplagh, Co Monaghan is the final resting place of a known soldier but a forgotten hero. Thomas ...