Weapons, Plans and Ships- Langenfeld, Arkfeld, Wignert, Dresen, Euchner
Bayonets: A sword like stabbing blade that may be fixed to the muzzle of a rifle for use in hand-to-hand fighting -Flamethrowers: A weapon that squirts ignited fuel for several yards -Grenades: A small bomb thrown by hand or launched mechanically
-Poison Gas- poisonous gas or vapor, used especially to disable an enemy in warfare -Rifles: A gun especially one fired from shoulder level, having a long spirally grooved barrel intended to make a bullet spit and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance -Tanks: an enclosed armored military vehicle that has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads. -Machine gun: an automatic gun that fires bullets in rapid succession for as long as the trigger is pressed -Pistols: A small firearm designed to be held in one hand -Trench mortar: A light simple mortar designed to propel a bomb into enemy trenches
Machine Gun: MG 08 MASCHINEN GEWEHR
- Daggers: Little hand knives -Missiles: drop from plane -WW1 Trench knife Copy (Knuckle Duster Knife) -They used gas masks to protect themselves from dangerous gases
Tear Gas: Stimuates corneal nerves in the eyes to cause tears, pain, and even blindness but doesn't kill -Introduced by the French in 1914 -Germans deployed gases by using hand grenades
Mustard Gas: Has ability to form large blisters on the exposed skin an din the lungs. Pure sulfur mustard is colorless and vicious liquds at room temperature (hard to locate)
-Chlorine Gas: Looks like greenish-gray cloud of smoke and is very visible to enemies. It can inflict damage to the eyes, nose, throat, and lungs and if left untreated can cause death
-Phosgene Gas: The French retaliated against the Chlorine gas with this which was much deadlier. Colorless and odorless. Caused about 85% of the 100000 deaths caused by chemical weapons
-Lewisite: Americans came up with this in 1918 in Cleveland, Ohio. It was deadly like mustard gas but invisible.The war ended before it was available in a large enough quantity to be used in World War 1.
USE OF GAS: April 22, 1915 The special gas companies were not able to call it gas and had to refer to it as an accessory.
SHIPS:
Battle cruiser: Designed to have the speed of a cruiser and power of a battleship
- The Hood: Britain's most notorious and feared battlecruiser with 8 guns and 4 guns, 4 antiaircraft guns and 6 torpedo tubes -Cruisers were smaller adn faster than battleships; 2 main types were armored and protected cruisers
-Armored cruisers: Made to assist bigger battleships
-Protected Cruisers: Made to guard trade routes, troop-ships, and outposts
-Submarines: Posed a very serious threat even though they were fragile and could only dive for a few hours
-Torpedo Boats: Fast, light and were armed with torpedoes. Strategically important to ocean warfare.. fatal in slowing a ship down
Town Cruisers: Designed for long range trade protection
Aircraft Carriers: Designed to carry planes across the oean for fighting
Aircrafts: Armed with machine guns and weren't very effective. Everyone used them
Bomber Planes: Could hold two to three bombs each and they had to build a lot to take effect
There were 70 different types of plane: Aviatik D., Junkers, Fokker E.L., Martinsyde G. 100, Curtiss
Airships: Later in war Zeppelins were used by Germany to do most of the attacking. The would have huge fleets at night and attack on London with them. Used for attacking and transportation. Hindenburg is the most famous one used after WW1. It exploded an crashed with few survivors. This resulted in the end of these larger airships being used for airships.
Comments