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streamsofcontext:

Automobil und Aviatik - Leipzig1916 repro by Taky Hungary by takacsi75 on Flickr.

4 ♥ / 28 May, 2012

thorsteinulf:

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson - A Star Shell (1916)

22 ♥ / 17 April, 2012

ckck:

A pilot at Fairlop airfield in Essex (now part of Greater London) has a haircut during a break between sweeps, November 1942. via iwm

4638 ♥ / 16 April, 2012

38 ♥ / 7 April, 2012

the-seed-of-europe:

French postcard, keepin’ it classy.

51 ♥ / 16 March, 2012

xplanes:

“DFW C.V banking in early morning sunlight.”

89 ♥ / 14 March, 2012

instahlgewittern:

Another contemporary postcard depicting SL. 11 held by searchlights and attacked by anti-aircraft guns. Early hours of 3rd September, 1916, over Cuffley, Hertfordshire.
The SL. 11 was destroyed on this occasion by BE2c pilot William Leefe Robinson. It was the first Zeppelin brought down on British soil.

9 ♥ / 13 February, 2012

lostsplendor:

2. Landsturm Infanterie Bataillon ‘Bruchsal’, c. 1914 (by drakegoodman)

150 ♥ / 6 February, 2012

31 ♥ / 2 February, 2012

the-seed-of-europe:

War-weary British soldiers at Passchendaele, 1917. via canadiancontent

132 ♥ / 18 January, 2012

117 ♥ / 10 January, 2012

Paul Castelnau, Déjeuner de poilu, Reims, 1er avril 1917.

39 ♥ / 9 January, 2012

lostsplendor:

“Five senior non-commissioned officers from 3. Ober-Elsässisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 80”, c. 1915 (via drakegoodman)

158 ♥ / 31 December, 2011

Emblem of the Lafayette Escadrille (1916-18).

64 ♥ / 28 December, 2011

Jules Védrines à bord de son Morane, 1915.

35 ♥ / 28 December, 2011