I was doing some research for a friend on Col-Gen Hoth and was surprised to see that he had been awarded the panzer badge in WWI. Does anybody have any info on the award and the criteria for its award during WWI? Tony
Hello again, you've all been very helpful to me since I got here. But here' why I'm here: I have a large array of figures, artillery, and cavalry so far, and just this week my first Tanks (A pair of Emhar A7V's) Im working with Smallscale Reversico, Scalelink, and whoever bought Fine scale Factory for th...
Came across this. Just outside Liege, the fort was amongst those destroyed by the Germans in Aug 1914. The Museum has some fantastic displays, including many uniforms, notably those of the somewhat neglected Fortress Artillery, and lots of other good stuff. http://www.fortdeloncin.com/index...
In the recently published German Panzers 1914-18 by Steven J. Zaloga illustrated by Brian Delf there is a small photograph of a A7V Schutzengrabenbagger trench digger. Does anyone have more information on this use of the A7V?
Did the British have any similar devices?
Andrew
Hello new to the site, was wondering has anybody given any thought to modeling a few of the scenes described in Harry Turtledoves "Great war " series, in which the Unitied states allied with the germans square off aginst the Confederate states, britian and france. The author is very descr...
More details on this musical item are now available. "The Tanko" was a song-and-dance routine staged at a London theatre, purportedly celebrating the Tank. One assumes the title was a pun on 'Tango'. It was risqu? by the standards of the time, and the chorus girls seem to have represented...
I have only just noticed this. Sorry of old news. Circled on the photo is what appears to be an MG port. This seems to bear out Schneider and Strasheim's drawing that shows an MG fitted there.
Just reading jager's book and other sources its clear that many heavy artillery like the 13cm, 15cm and 17cm naval guns were used by germans to compensate for long-range artillery but none of these sources [ which are all in english for me sadly] give any numbers e.g how many guns were by 1914 or end of 19...
Does anybody know anything about Seabrook. I know of the ones that were armoured up for the RNAS, but what about the actual company. Does anybody have any information?about them? Many thanks Tim
found a couple of good photos on the AWM site, using the search word "water" and restricting the search to "first world war"
unfortunately can't get the links to post
there are probably a few more. plenty with camels or mules. -- Edited by Phil R at 19:49, 2006-10-07
Hello, In jager's book on german artillery some obsolete guns in service with army are mentioned in the tables and some illustrations but very little else is given about them.Guns like 9cm C/73/91 10cm Kanone 04 of krupp of 1902-03 13cm Kanone 09 Schwere 12cm kanone 1880 15cm ringkanone of 1892 15cm s...
Marco has put together an excellent new web site on Bulgarian Artillery from 1878-1918.? This has quite a lot of great information especially considering that Bulgaria used many weapons from foreign nations.? The up shot is that if you are interested in German, Austro-Hungarian, Serbian, Ottoma...
From a very old edition of Militaria magazine: A French Tanker's badge depicting a British Tank. There is no further explanation. Any ideas? BTW, the article suggests that the practice of using playing card suits to identify French Tank units might be based on a little pun. Artllerie Sp?ciale was ab...
It is in Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" that we are treated to the continuing struggle of shot to pierce armour and of armour to withstand shot - "Now if Barbicane was a great founder of shot, Nicholl was a great forger of plates; the one cast night and day at Baltimore,the other for...
Is this some kind of a "Pierce-Arrow" AFV? The caption under the first pic reads: "armoured cars of the naval air squadron assisting british lines at ypres" The second picture, seemingly the same AFV,?is from a PC game and claims the vehicle is an SPG.
Hi Can anyone help please ?? I am looking for scale plans or drawings of the 6pdr main gun of the Mk IV, with a view to producing 1/35 plans for a project I am planning. TIA Paul
Just a little light-hearted thread. What is your favourite film (movie) that fits in with the theme of this site (first 20-ish years of the 20th century). Choose just one, please. I know it's tough to narrow it down - that's the point. My favourite today?is, A Very Long Engagement: http://www.imdb.c...
Apropos of nothing much, but showing another wearing of the 1903 bandoliers, pre-war (about 1910) - NCOs from an (Albany-based?) section of the 35th Fortress Company AE.? These were militia and the Engineers were still wearing their blue parade jackets (as I think they continued to do even after th...
Now this is a subject that got me stumped: WW1 Serbian Uniforms. I'm preparing an article in anticipation of the fortcoming H?T Serbian Infantry set. And I only have meagre info. And some photos of the Serbian uniforms in the Army Museum in Brussels. Anyone out there who has any more info, espec...
