This German Field Manual was found by my grandfather and namesake William Campbell in a German artillery dug-out near Flesquieres in Northern France on 20 November 1917 when he was 20 years old ...

The Fort Meade Museum donated a 21-cm Morser 16, a German howitzer, to the U.S. Army Field Artillery Museum at Fort Sill, which will restore and display the 17,500-pound weapon in the museum's ...

British munitions factories produced over 170 million artillery shells during WW1. ... Owen, was sent to the hospital after being knocked unconscious by the blast of a German artillery shell.

During the Hundred Days Offensive, Allied airpower facilitated the breakthrough by identifying German entrenchments, locating artillery positions for counter-battery fire, providing warning of ...

A magnet fisher was shocked to discover that an object he had been 'whacking with a hammer' was actually a WWI artillery shell. Raymond Berry, 53, was fishing in the River Medway in Maidstone ...

Germany won’t excavate WWI tunnel containing hundreds of soldiers’ bodies By Amarachi Orie and Nadine Schmidt, CNN ... the French army was firing on German soldiers with heavy artillery.

Meanwhile, enemy ground fire intensified with each sortie. Two DH-4s were downed behind German lines on Oct. 6, but their crewmen, Lieutenants George R. Phillips, Mitchell H. Brown, Allen Tracy ...

James Calhoun, curator of Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Museum, said the recovered artillery piece is actually believed to be a German gun that was captured by Canadian troops in the First World War.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 241st installment in the series. June 24, 1916: Somme Bombardment Begins ...

Summary and Key Points: On April 24, 1918, during WWI, the first-ever tank battle occurred near Villers-Bretonneux. German A7V tanks clashed with British Mark IV tanks, showcasing the tactical ...