New Weapons And Technology In World War I

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In 1915, Wolseley developed a thirty-cwt. lorry chassis with armored sides and a revolving turret with a Vickers-maxim machine gun. The first design of a tank known as �Little Willie� designed by Lieutenant W.G. Wilson and William Tritton. It consisted of an armored box encircled by caterpillar tracks. The first vehicle to be designed and completed as a tank was not very effective. It was too short to cross a German trench that was more than four-foot wide. An improved version of Wilson�s tank was developed in 1916. The Mark I had an armor plate varying from 12mm to 6mm in thickness. It had four Vickers water-cooled machine guns. The British Army ordered One hundred fifty of these tanks and the first forty-nine went into action. The Mark I was not very successful in battle and attempts were made to improve the design of the tank. In 1917 the Mark II and Mark III were produced. Neither of these overcame the problems of Mark I, so only fifty of each one was made. Being ...

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time in the trenches. The British army worked on a 16 day timetable. Each soldier usually spent eight days in the front line and four days in the reserve trench. Another four days were spent in a resting camp. When the army was short on men; soldiers had to spend longer periods in the front line trench. Some of the soldiers were in the front line trenches for over 30 days at a time. Being in a front line trench was a very dangerous task. Almost everyday some enemy shells would fall on the trenches. Some soldiers were even hit by their own artillery. It was estimated that about 75,000 British soldiers were killed by their own bullets. Germans were first to dig trenches so ...

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