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Forgotten American WWI cannon designed for the trenches

The 37mm gun was widely used during World War One because it was the smallest caliber permitted to fire explosive projectiles under the 1899 Hague accords, and one notable variant was built by ...
Western Front of World War I participated in the 1914 Christmas Truce. They left their trenches and ventured into no man’s ...
On Christmas Eve in 1914, a light snowfall began to dust the Western Front, unable to settle on the muddy, waterlogged ground ...
In December 1914, British and German soldiers fighting World War I unofficially stopped combat to celebrate Christmas. Known ...
The 1914 Christmas Truce wasn’t universal, and it didn’t last, but it’s become one of war’s most retold on-screen moments: ...
Snoopy’s Christmas', the playful hit by The Royal Guardsmen—the Ocala band turned a cartoon beagle and the Red Baron into a ...
It was once called the War to End All Wars, but World War I dragged on year after year. Governments were shattered, lives were destroyed, and many more wars came ...
But for one moment in 1914, there came a Christmas miracle. The soldiers in the trenches stopped fighting, and for a moment, ...
The soldiers in the 16th Royal Scots were affectionately known as McCrae’s Battalion, named after the lieutenant colonel who founded them, Sir George McCrae. Brought together from Edinburgh and nearby ...
What would happen if they threw a war and nobody came?” That rather naïve supposition was pondered on posters and t-shirts in ...
Soldiers are believed to have spoken to one another, sung carols, exchanged food and cigarettes - but the most enduring ...