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[theworldatwar]

British soldiers of the 8th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment with a young French boy enter Lille, France on 18th Oct 1918. Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group

[theworldofwars]

 British troops asleep in a support trench during the preliminary bombardment, previous to the attack on Beaumont Hamel, 1st July 1916. Note scaling ladders (duckboards) across trench. 

[destinationsjourney]

Austro-Hungarian Battleship SMS Prinz Eugen

SMS Prinz Eugen was the third of four Tegetthoff-class dreadnought battleships built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Prinz Eugen was named for Prince Eugene of Savoy, a Habsburg general and statesman during the 17th and 18th centuries most notable for defeating the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Zenta in 1697. The ship was armed with a main battery of twelve 30.5 cm (12.0 in) guns in four triple turrets. Constructed shortly before World War I, she was built at the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino shipyard in Trieste, where she was laid down in January 1912 and launched in November that same year.

Commissioned into the Austro-Hungarian Navy just 10 days after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Prinz Eugen was a member of the 1st Battleship Division of the Austro-Hungarian Navy at the beginning of the war alongside the other ships of her class, and was stationed out of the Austro-Hungarian naval base at Pola. She first saw action during the Bombardment of Ancona following Italy’s declaration of war on Austria-Hungary in May 1915, but saw little combat for the rest of the war due to the Otranto Barrage, which prohibited the Austro-Hungarian Navy from leaving the Adriatic Sea. In June 1918, in an bid to earn safer passage for German and Austro-Hungarian U-boats through the Strait of Otranto, the Austro-Hungarian Navy attempted to break the Barrage with a major attack on the strait, but it was abandoned after Prinz Eugen’s sister ship, Szent István, was sunk by torpedoes launched from the Italian torpedo boat MAS-15 on 10 June.

After the sinking of Szent István, Prinz Eugen and the remaining two ships of her class, Viribus Unitis and Tegetthoff, returned to port in Pola where they remained for the rest of the war. Facing defeat in the war in October 1918, the Austro-Hungarian government decided to transfer the bulk of its navy to the newly formed State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs in order to avoid having to hand the ship over to the Allies. This transfer however was not recognized by the Armistice of Villa Giusti, signed between Austria-Hungary and the Allies in November 1918. Under the terms of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Prinz Eugen was handed over to France. The French Navy subsequently removed the main armament of Prinz Eugen for inspection before using the battleship as a target ship. After being first used to test aerial bombardment attacks, Prinz Eugen was sunk by the battleships Paris, Jean Bart, and France off Toulon on 28 June 1922, exactly eight years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

[whencyclopedia]

The Western Front (1914–1918) was the central and most industrialized theater of the First World War, emerging from Germany’s initial invasion of Belgium and northern France in August 1914 under Kaiser Wilhelm II (reign 1888–1918). Following the failure of the Schlieffen Plan and the stabilization of the front after the First Battle of the Marne (1914), the conflict evolved into a protracted war of attrition stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier. Trench systems, fortified defensive belts, and unprecedented artillery concentrations reflected the dominance of industrial firepower over maneuver. Major engagements, Verdun (1916), the Somme (1916), Passchendaele (1917), revealed the strategic logic of exhaustion, as both the German Empire and the Allied powers sought to break the stalemate through material superiority and manpower mobilization.

[duncandonuts06]

THAT'S RIGHT! AEROPLANE OC JUST DROPPED!

Meet Cora! She is a Curtiss JN4 "Jenny" that served as a navy trainer during the First World War.

She was stationed at Pensacola NAS from 1917-1919 where she helped many future American aces earn their wings. She sports a peculiar paint scheme for a navy aircraft: a brown and natural canvas colored fuselage as well as natural colored wings. She's served many roles in the military and carried multiple paint schemes throughout her career, but this one will always be her favorite from her years in the service.

After the war she was decommissioned and exchanged hands between multiple private pilots. She was part of the early air mail service then became a barnstormer during the Roaring Twenties and interwar period. Her stylized eyes are painted on and are made to resemble the eyeliner of flapper girls from this era. She, like many of her sisters, has survived into modernity and remains in perfect flying condition. She enjoys still getting to perform daring stunts and teaching young pilots all of the flying knowledge she has gained over her many, many years. She lives at Olde Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York with other aeroplanes from the early years of aviation.

Heavily referenced blueprints and model vector artwork for her ref sheet. Still figuring out how to make aeroplanes "expressive"

[vikkicomics]

“We have seen it all.” 

[notpulpcovers]

‘Zeppelin Brought Down In Flames’ postcard https://flic.kr/p/ESSXjq

[weehughie]

Lozenge camouflage… • • #fokker #dvii #fokkerdvii #biplane #ww1 #worldwar1 #worldwarone #german #germany #littlefokker #lozenge #camouflage #lozengecamouflage #avgeek #aviation #flight #flying #airwar #battlefield #museum #raf #rafmuseum #hendon #london #sopwith #camel #sopwithcamel (at The Royal Air Force Museum London) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChC12WzIf2k/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=