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Fran Jurga`s Hoofcare + Lameness: War Horse Hoofcare: Holy Horseshoeing at an Anvil Altar in France, 1918
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The Butte of Vauquois - Books and Tours by Stephen Wendell
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| | My great grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Potts, was a U.S. infantryman in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, near Verdun, France, in 1918. My Nanna once asked him, "Well, Daddy, what did you think about France?" He said, "It's a very muddy place." At...
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WW1 Aerial Balloon Photos 1916-1918 | Reticulated
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| | Enhancing an archive of aerial photographs documenting the Western Front during World War I by the 14th Photo Section, 1st Army.
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On Bennett's 'The Pretty Lady' « Great War Fiction
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| | I wrote about this for the Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War (2021) (edited by Ralf Schneider and Jane Potter), a work of pretty encyclopaedic scope. I think the was originally intended to appear in time for the War's centenary, but there were the kind of publishing problems that often...
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Explosive-Filled Dummies And Other Ruses Helped Clear The Way For Real Paratroopers On D-Day
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| What may get overlooked in the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day is just how risky it was and how Allied military and intelligence elements had been conducting massive deception and disinformation campaigns for months ahead of time to ensure Operation Overlord had the best chance of succeeding. This included dumping radar confusing chaff, dummy paratroopers rigged with explosives, as well as Special Air Service (SAS) commandos with loudspeakers to broadcast disorient recordings, to confuse German forces.