Weapons of World War I: Media
The combination of 20th-century weapons and 19th-century tactics made World War I especially deadly.
Images
German machine gunners occupy a trench during World War I.
Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LC-USZ62-136100)
British ship laying depth charges in the vicinity of a submerged German submarine...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
British airfield at Hendon, outside London, England, during World War I.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Serbian infantryman near Salonika (now Thessaloníki), Greece, April 1916.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
A zeppelin flying over the harbour at Kiel, Germany, on maneuvers during World War...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Soldiers demonstrating the proper wearing of a gas mask to civilians near the front...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
American 14-inch railway gun firing projectiles at a German railway and troop movement...
U.S. Signal Corps/National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Members of the Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade at Giza, Egypt, during World War...
National Library of Australia, nla.obj-148034768
HMS Orion, super dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. Heavier than...
The National Maritime Museum, London
A German machine gun emplacement during World War I.
Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LC-USZ62-136100)
British Mark IV (Male) tank ditched in a German trench during the Battle of Cambrai,...
Robert Hunt Library/Mary Evans Picture Library/age fotostock
