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robotcosmonaut:

The End Of The “Baby-Killer”

Airforce Mag: “Your Time Is Gonna Come: A British propaganda postcard illustrates the destruction of a “baby-killer” Zeppelin.”

gentlemanlosergentlemanjunkie:

Blazing fiercely, the hydrogen-filled German Zeppelin LZ37 goes down over Belgium in this painting of the first air-to-air victory of a plane over a dirigible.

On June 7, 1915, Sublieutenant R.A.J. Warneford of the RNAS flew his Morane monoplane over the length of the huge airship, dropping six bombs.  For this mission, Warneford won the Victoria Cross and the Legion d’Honneur.

(via Knights of the Air - Airplanes versus airships - Dieselpunks)

I notice the article doesn’t mention little things like the name of the artist, which is a great pity. Anyway for more information on the downing of LZ37 go to HERE.

(via forgottenskywhales)

willigula:

WWI poster by Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin, Russian Empire

A 1914 poster prepared for a charity clothing drive sponsored by the All-Russian Land Union by an important Russian artist and stage designer. Korovin often worked in the manner of Impressionists, but for this poster, he turns for inspiration to the archetypal image from Russian antiquity, that of Dmitri Donskoi, the first Russian national hero figure. The viewer is left with the feeling that ignoring the drive is really not an option, and that participation is a civic duty of every citizen. A highly desirable, often reproduced poster (see e.g., Baburina, Russian Posters of WWI).

gentlemanlosergentlemanjunkie:

In a scene that could have been pulled straight from H. G. Wells’ classic War in the Air, a mighty air and sea battle between German and British forces is imagined in this fanciful 1915 Japanese lithograph.

Japan, which had almost no experience with military aviation, had joined The Great War on the side of the Allies in August of 1914.  Its citizens, curious about events in the West, avidly purchased lithographs like this because news photographs were difficult to obtain and to reproduce.

(via Knights of the Air: WWI as envisioned by the Japanese (circa 1915) - Dieselpunks)

Angela Brazil’s A Patriotic Schoolgirl (1918) (HT Great War Fiction)

jahoctopus:

Scottish War Savings Committee, c. 1917 by Forde

via http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/world-war-one-posters.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/8328584574/sizes/l/

georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov:

A Quartermaster Sergeant of the 5th Marines types out a report.

“It was a dark and stormy night”

(via bluecollarclassicist)

dreamingseoullights:

gdfalksen:

historyofromanovs:

Crossover garments - Nicholas II of Russia (right) is wearing German Army uniform while his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II of the German Empire wears a Russian Army tunic. Several years after this picture was taken, the two countries would go against each other. In 1914, Wilhelm II declared war on Russia and United Kingdom, leaving reluctant Nicholas no choice but to prepare Russia for battle.

This is an awesome picture, although the note at the end about the start of the First World War is misleading. In 1914 Germany declared war on Russia and France (not the UK) in response to Russian mobilization because it feared encirclement by the French and the Russians, who were allies. The purpose of declaring war was to knock France out quickly before Russia’s armies could be readied. Russian and German mobilization were both a response to the Austrian invasion of Serbia (Austria being Germany’s ally, Serbia being Russia’s). Finally, Britain declared war on Germany (not the other way round) when Germany invaded Belgium en route to France in an attempt to avoid France’s defenses along the German border.

This has been a TUMBLR lesson on World War 1. 

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