World War 1

help me find out about the weapons on World War 1.`

A good starting point would be to look through both the active forum threads and Forum Archive link in the Topics box on this page.

A quickee on WWI weapons:

WWI involved the 1st use of: Tanks, Engine-driven aircraft, Armed aircraft, Rockets, Submarines, Nerve gas/Chemical warfare.

(my parents always use to kick me in the butt and tell me to read a book).

Submarines first used in American Civil War.

Hi Stephi

Here is the best starting point on the internet to find out what you want to know about WW I:

Trenches on the Web-URL

http://www.worldwar1.com/

Just copy the URL above into your Address Box and press go.

Hope this helps.
Mitch Williamson

[leo]

Bushnell's Yankee Turtle was the first sub used in a war during the American Revolution.

[Vigilant]

The most important weapon was artillery.

Artillery shells killed about twice as many men as machine-gun bullets.

Trenches were dug to provide cover from shells as much as bullets.

The shape of the battlefield was defined by the range a gun could fire a shell. If the trench lines extended back beyond that range, then attacking infantry would be without support and would be unable to breakthrough.

Techniques such as the 'creeping barrage' later in the war enabled infantry to cross no-mans-land without suffering unacceptable losses.

Hope this helps a bit!

What do you want to know about the weapons of WW1? They were nasty, mass produced vehicles for the extinguishing of young blokes lives who were too ill educated to question the dubious morals and strategies of the ancients who led them. About the only good thing that came of WW1 and its follow up was that they taught normal people a healthy cynicism towards those who would control, manipulate and send them to their deaths for political, imperialist and ultimatley meaningless ends. The weapons of WW1 should be forgotten, it is the lives they despatched that should be commemorated and discussed in sites like this, which frankly seek to glorify in a quaint "look at the jingoistic heroism" manner the exploits of public school boy pilots who subscribed to the antiquated notion of war as a 'game'.

[Vigilant]

(a) This is an open forum and people come here for all types of reasons. Most with a fascination in history - and repulsion of the "jingoism" that led to 13 million deaths 1914-18.

(B) Why bother studying the facts when they might disrupt your opinions??

Settle down, dude - I just like them fancy planes!