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Advancements in Warfare Technology
Top Left: Machine gunners of the 80th Div. using a Browning heavy machine gun to speed the departing Germans. The Browning heavy machine gun was pronounced by military experts the most effective weapon of its kind ever produced. General Pershing refused to use the Browning gun until he had a plentiful supply in September, 1918, because he feared the Germans might capture one and reproduce the type before America was fully equipped.
Top Right: French tanks moving to support French troops operating on the left of the 32d Division, Aug. 29, 1918
Bottom Left: While ground soldiers fought for days to gain a trench system or a patch of woods the airmen sailed above viewing and reading the terrain like a map.
Bottom Right: U.S. Navy dirigibles. Every soldier who sailed France would recall the thrill he got when, on approaching the coast, one or more of these fast flying "blimps" sailed out and escorted his transport to harbor. The "blimps" searched the coastal waters for U-boats lurking beneath the surface.
For the first time ever, modern technology that have never been used - planes, tanks, and machine guns - were used for this war to slay many.
Title: U.S. Official Pictures of the World War, Showing America's Participation, by William E. Moore, James Russell, published by the Pictorial Bureau of Washington, D.C. 1920.
Call No. D 527 .M 82 1920a
Location: George Peabody Library
Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections and Archives, the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University
Advancements in Warfare Technology
Top Left: Machine gunners of the 80th Div. using a Browning heavy machine gun to speed the departing Germans. The Browning heavy machine gun was pronounced by military experts the most effective weapon of its kind ever produced. General Pershing refused to use the Browning gun until he had a plentiful supply in September, 1918, because he feared the Germans might capture one and reproduce the type before America was fully equipped.
Top Right: French tanks moving to support French troops operating on the left of the 32d Division, Aug. 29, 1918
Bottom Left: While ground soldiers fought for days to gain a trench system or a patch of woods the airmen sailed above viewing and reading the terrain like a map.
Bottom Right: U.S. Navy dirigibles. Every soldier who sailed France would recall the thrill he got when, on approaching the coast, one or more of these fast flying "blimps" sailed out and escorted his transport to harbor. The "blimps" searched the coastal waters for U-boats lurking beneath the surface.
For the first time ever, modern technology that have never been used - planes, tanks, and machine guns - were used for this war to slay many.
Title: U.S. Official Pictures of the World War, Showing America's Participation, by William E. Moore, James Russell, published by the Pictorial Bureau of Washington, D.C. 1920.
Call No. D 527 .M 82 1920a
Location: George Peabody Library
Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections and Archives, the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University