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Nov 27 1916 #OTD Near Hartlepool, UK, Imperial German Army Zeppelin LZ 78 (L-34) shot down by British pilot 2nd Lt Ian Pyott. His bullets ignited the hydrogen, "like a massive fiery torch which lit up the night for miles around, she plunged into the sea." https://t.co/5yfUSsUCsB
Mar 27 1918 Canadian pilot Alan Arnett McLeod's plane was on fire so to keep away from the flames he flew the plane from wing. Survived landing and awarded was #VictoriaCross but died months later #OTD Nov 6 1918 from Spanish Flu. Painting by Merv Corning.
https://t.co/ykECAzdJVV
Oct 29 1917 #OTD In shell-torn Chateau Wood, Belgium, Frank Hurley photo, AWM E01220, of 5 members of a field artillery brigade, 4th Australian Division artillery units, (AIF), passing along a duckboard track over mud and water among tree trunks (1/4)
Colourized by Joshua Barrett
Oct 8 1918 #OTD During the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, American hero Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, actions for which he is awarded the Medal of Honor. Scene painted by Frank Schoonover https://t.co/IHF8nvQjWS
Aug 29 1916 #OTD At Pont-Arcy, France, this photo, IWM Q 49094, shows a #Poilu using a periscope attachment fitted to butt of rifle. The image has been colourized by #recolor_ww1
2nd photo shows Poilu operating a periscope rifle, colourized by Irootoko Jr. https://t.co/zFv9LmAIBM
In the background seem to be photos of the Zeebrugge Raid, First Ostend Raid and Second Ostend Raid including IWM Q 20648B?
Challenge! Can you find the rest?
@JohnnyD87968172 these should be easier than the last one.
https://t.co/ZbCwnDgnPE https://t.co/yvETHAIvly
The warship was named after a French general of the Napoleonic Wars, Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult. As well as looting Europe's art work's he was responsible for the creation of the French Foreign Legion https://t.co/3zEHeXuV0d
Colliers Magazine #OTD Aug 12 1916 publishes this Herbert Paus Cover Art
Utah's Ogden Standard newspaper Sep 13 1915 prints this picture of a British Sub-Lieutenant looking through the periscope of a submarine for Prey. https://t.co/QyWvxoVrAQ
Jul 21 1915 #OTD
Tatler publishes photo of British Naval Division in #Gallipoli
Illustrated war news - Wounded by allied bomb, a German howitzer lies abandoned in Flanders
Illustrated war news - UK sub HMS E11 sneaks into Constantinople harbour, striking Ottoman ship Stamboul
Captain Kenneth Keith Forbes creates this painting, CWM 19710261-0142, of a Canadian 6inch howitzer supporting British troops in the attack on Thiepval #OTD Jul 16 1916 during the Somme offensive. Note lack of ear protection, causing deafness in #WWI vets https://t.co/7CPz6iz0hJ