Life in the Trenches

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Life in the Trenches
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Days in the trenches

• Soldiers spent eight days in trenches
• Trenches were about seven feet deep
• The patrols were sent No Mans Land
• Death was a common in trenches
• Trenches were called dug outs

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Machine Guns

• The German that I shot was a fine looking man ..
  I did feel sorry, but it was my life or his
• BRITISH SOLUDER JACK SWEENEY NOVEMBER 21, 1916

• The first gun on a airplanes
• Guns could hold fifty shots
• One shot and have to reload
• Rifles where very loud
• Fifty shots a minute

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Are you ready to Fight

• Most men were sent to No Mans Land
• It was a dangerous life in trenches
• Guns were main killers for soldiers
• Many men were injured and died
• Thousands of deaths at the trenches

• The sunken road was .. Filled with pieces of
  uniform, weapons, and dead bodies.

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Machine Guns

• Crude machine guns used in war
• Barely any soldiers got out alive in trenches
• It was not a very easy task
• Soldiers had to move fast to not get hurt

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Biography

• Trench Warfare
• Machine guns

http//www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWtrench.htm

http//www.caterham.redbridge.sch.uk/history/trenc
h/tw/tw12.html
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Weapons of War
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Poison Gas effect

• Was used against the French
• It settled quickly
• Effects were faintness, nausea, collapse
• Trenches sprayed with a fluid
• Germans fired shells that paralyze

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Poison Gas effects

• The gas eventually wore away
• Most dead men were left
• Some died from the after effects
• Explosions left environment unclean and destroyed
• Animal habitat left destroyed

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Poison Gas Quote

• "The vapor settled to the ground like a swamp
  mist and drifted toward the French trenches on a
  brisk wind. Its effect on the French was a
  violent nausea and faintness, followed by an
  utter collapse. It is believed that the Germans,
  who charged in behind the vapor, met no
  resistance at all, the French at their front
  being virtually paralyzed." The use of gas at
  Langemarck ø as reported in the New York Tribune,
  April 27, 1915

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Web Sources

• Note source http//www.lib.byu.edu/rdh/wwi/1915/
  chlorgas.html
• Quote source http//www.worldwar1.com/arm006.htm
  
• Picture source http//www.firstworldwar.com/weapo
  nry/gas.htm
• http//www.gwpda.org/photos/gas1.htm

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The Air War

• WORLD WAR 1

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The Planes

• Fokker Dr.1, the Curtiss JN-4, and the Sopwith
  Camel.
• Speed, not very fast.
• Most planes had low horse power.
• They were very flimsy and unstable.
• They were extremely hard to fly.
• Many WW1 pilots died from accidents.

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Zeppelins

• They also went on recon
• missions.
• Their mission as usually high flying bombing
  runs.
• They were heavily guarded by machine guns and
  anti aircraft guns.
• Very dangerous to pilots .
• Were as fast as airplanes
• Sometimes tethered to ground.

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The Aces

• Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen.
• Edward "Eddie" Vernon Rickenbacker.
• Von Richthofen had the highest kill rate of any
  pilot.
• He was shot down by ground fire.
• Eddie had 27 kills.
• Richthofen had 80.

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Bombs

• Bombs were very small in the beginning of the
  war.
• Small arrows called Flechettes were also dropped
  on the enemy.
• They were very inaccurate.
• Bombing did not become effective until later in
  the war.
• A bomber plane could carry one 1,650lb bomb.
• Only Zeppelins could carry big bombs.

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Machine guns

• An interrupter switch had to be used.
• Before the machine guns were mounted on planes,
  they used revolvers and hand grenades.
• They had tail gunners too
• Tail gunners were mostly on recon planes.
• The guns mounted on the planes were just machine
  guns.
• Before the interrupter switch was invented they
  used shields on the propellers to block the
  bullets.

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• theredfighterpilot. The War Times Journal. 23
  Feb. 2006 lthttp//www.richthofen.com/gt.
• hanlon, mike. trenchesontheweb. 23 Feb. 2006
  lthttp//worldwar1.com/gt.

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Tanks
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Three technologies

• Armor plating , swivel turrets from warships
• Internal combustion engine
• Metal tracks instead of wheels
• Invented by Benjamin Holt

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In tanks

• 13 main parts to a tank
• Gunner drivers cabin
• Hotchkiss 8mm machine gun
• Steering handle
• Gunners seat
• Driver's seat
• 6-cylinder water cooled engine etc,

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Design

• Three factors that determine a tanks
  effectiveness
• firepower
• mobility
• protection
• Not all three can be maximized

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History

• Caterpillar track- by Richard Edgeworth in 1770
• Crimean war few steamed powered tractors
• Modern development-came in 1885
• First successful prototype tank, Little Willie
• Tested by the British Army on September 6, 1915.
• The name tank came from British factories

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Who gets the credit?

• Benjamin Holt
• Gottlieb Daimler
• Frederick Simms
• Richard Edgeworth

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Bibliography

• Notehttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TankWorld_War_O
  ne_The_first_tanks
• http//www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWweapons.ht
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• Picture http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank
  
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