#WW1 History

[doubtspirit]

Knowledge Wins - Public Library Books are Free, American Library Association (1918)

[cirr0stratus]

Siegfried Sassoon, counter attack

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

[abakedpotatoefromidaho]

The "Box cannon" C96 mauser

[fuwbuki]

The sun and son of Arabia

Watched "Lawrence of Arabia" for the first time and i had to make something. I had a vision but dont know if i executed it correctly

[blackisdivine]

Black History Month

A member of the Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment) poses for the camera while holding a puppy he saved during World War 1, 1918.

The Harlem Hellfighters was a regiment made up of decorated Black soldiers who fought as part of the French army because the U.S. did not allow Black soldiers to fight alongside white soldiers. The French accepted the Harlem Hellfighters with open arms and did not racially segregate them.

During World War 1, they fought on the front lines for 191 days, longer than any other American unit. And as a result, suffered the most casualties of any American regiment—losing approximately 1,500 men. Despite the heavy death toll and the poor replacement system, the Harlem Hellfighters never lost a trench or a foot of ground to the enemy; none of them became prisoners of war. Not only were they one of the most successful regiments of World War 1, but they also helped bring Jazz to France.

Upon returning home, the Harlem Hellfighters received a welcome parade in New York City; a privilege that was denied to them before they had left for war. However, the celebrations were short lived as the summer of 1919 became known as the Red Summer, in which the country saw some of the worst racial violence since the Civil War.

The Harlem Hellfighters who dreamed of returning home to a place that would finally treat them with respect and as equal human beings, quickly realized that nothing had changed at all.

[soulsray]

In memoriam book fanart cause I love them

“My dearest, darling Sidney,”

There was nothing else. Only dead white paper, blank and meaningless. A comma, followed by nothing. Death summed up by grammar.

Elwood mouthed the words. “My,” just the word “my” would have been enough to live on, if Gaunt had ever called him that to his face.

“He never called me Sidney. Not once, in five years.”

[redraspberryleaf]

Dudes who are way too into WWII history have nothing on the ao3 writers putting a bitchy edwardian gay man through ✨️Historically Accurate Horrors✨️ for the sake of character development.

Dudes who are entralled by the idea of being some sort of glorious war hero are making WWII history half their personalities by watching countless movies and documentaries, falling down wikipedia rabbit holes, and going to museums.

A bunch of middleaged women who enjoy watching a Masterpiece Classic series on their regional public broadcaster saw this evil queen who was just one among a massive ensamble cast and decided that they were going to make his story better by rewriting it with obscene levels of research done casually in their downtime. The ladies are obtaining copies of the RAMC handbook from 1914, reading countless eyewitness accounts of several naval battles from both sides, learning not just how a certain regiments uniform went together, but the most common mistakes their wearer might make in donning it. These diabolical fic writers are setting aside time to go to physical archives, reading period medical journals, and meteorological reports, then citing their sources in the chapter end notes. Just wait until you get smacked in the face with the chapter end note apologising for the historical inaccuracy when a timeline was altered just slightly for the sake of plot, with a detailed description of what actually would have happened. They're SO into it, and all the while doing everything they can to let the reader know that there is no glory in war, only horrors and bodies thrown carelessly into a meat grinder by powerful men. They show you this loss through characters you love, then give you a list of resources where you can see the records of the countless real people that it all actually happened to, lest you be lulled into thinking this was just a story.

Dudes who get way into WWII history have absolutely NOTHING on Downton Abbey writers on ao3 man. One will tell you about a cool documentary on tanks they watched, and the other will grab you by the hair and press your face into a stack of documents written in blood and mud.

[theworldofwars]

Highland Dance by men of the 8/10th (Service) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders outside Arras Cathedral, 24 January 1918.

[pepsiloverswarehouse]

attack of the dead

[tuji-art]

++ Imperial China Mechanised Infantry ++

my fanart for a Chinese heavy infantry unit in trench crusade, referencing Mike Franchina's new antioch mechanised infantry art (my fav from him!) what do you think?

[maokpinaok]

A few more things to extend from yesterday’s post. This time it’s Jonathan and Dio :3

[abakedpotatoefromidaho]

[cid5]

WWI, 1 May 1918; A Machine Gun Corps post in a barn near Haverskerque, The Battle of the Lys (Operation Georgette).

[corpseflwr]

E.M Forster and Siegfried Sassoon were doing top/bottom discourse about their mutual friend T.E Lawrence back in 1924 by the way if you even care

[theworldatwar]

British troops breakthrough the formidable Hindenburg Line and bring supplies across the dried up Canal du Nord - 27th Sept 1918