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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

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

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

the-seed-of-europe:

A British soldier “shakes hands” with a kitten on a snowy bank, Neulette, 1917.
In the Christmas truce film Joyeux Noël, a cat runs back and forth between the enemy trenches to soldiers that feed it. One names the cat Felix and the other Nestor, and when the two meet in No Man’s Land during thet ruce, a sweet argument ensues between the two men over whose cat it is and what is, in fact, its name. The director of the film, Carion, drew on a real life story of a cat who did this during the truce and was ultimately shot for treason: “Towards the end of the film Major General Audebert says ‘I’ve been ordered to arrest a cat for treason.’ A cat portrayed in the film as Felix/Nestor, was actually arrested and shot for espionage after it arrived in French lines wearing a new collar and bearing a note (in French) which read ‘which regiment are you from?’. The general in charge decided just to follow the letter of the law, the cat was shot for spying.” (Source. Carion also talks about this in the making of of Joyeux Noël.) The real-life story was so ridiculous and upsetting, Carion decided not to include its ending in the film but only mention it in passing, because he thought the viewers of the film would not believe the absurdity of a cat being shot for treason.
It’s going to be a soldiers with kittens kind of day, I guess.
via iwm.org.uk

572 ♥ / 22 December, 2011

Otto Dix, Mahlzeit in der Sappe (Lorettohohe), Mealtime in the Trenches (Loretto Heights), Plate 13 of 51 from the series Der Kreig, 1924. via National Gallery of Australia

5 ♥ / 19 December, 2011