September 10, 2011

World War 1 American buy government bonds poster

Filed under: World War 1 American patriotic posters - 10 Sep 2011

This photo of a World War 1 American poster urging Americans to buy government bonds to help pay for the war is an interesting poster because a traditional mother figure is urging them to buy the bonds for ‘America’s sons.’
This …

World War 1 American Red Cross poster

Filed under: World War 1 American patriotic posters - 10 Sep 2011
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World War 1 mother sewing American flag poster

Filed under: World War 1 American patriotic posters - 10 Sep 2011

This photo. of a World War 1 American patriotic poster shows a mother sewing an American flag or Stars And Stripes flag. It’s especially interesting because as in some other American patriotic posters, the mother figure is used as a …

World War 1 American 4th. July patriotic poster

Filed under: World War 1 American patriotic posters - 10 Sep 2011

This World War 1 American patriotic poster shows the American national heroic figure ‘Uncle Sam’ attacking the enemy lines.
The poster also connects America’s involvement in World War 1 with the American War of Independence, or Revolutionary War, by proclaiming that …

World War 1 era patriotic ‘wake up America’ American poster

Filed under: World War 1 American patriotic posters - 10 Sep 2011

This World War 1 American patriotic poster shows a pretty girl urging her fellow citizens to wake up and enter the war.>/h2>
It’s an interesting example of how the government of the period had to overcome a certain amount of resistance …

September 9, 2011

World War 1 dead French soldier

Filed under: World War 1 photos of death - 09 Sep 2011

This photo of a dead French soldier being killed in action during World War 1 may be genuine but I seem to recall there is some doubt about its authenticity, whether it is a fake
Even if it is a fake, …

September 4, 2011

World War 1 dead soldier on barbed wire

Filed under: World War 1 photos of death - 04 Sep 2011

A photo of a dead World War 1 soldier whose body is hanging on some barbed wire and who was almost certainly killed while trying to climb over the barbed wire to attack the enemy.
There is another dead soldier in …

World War 1 make peace not war plea by German soldiers

Filed under: World War 1 British newspaper articles - 04 Sep 2011

In this British World War 1 newspaper article, a British soldier describes how German soldiers wanted to stop the war
The soldier wrote: ‘We had two letters thrown into our trenches the other night tied round a stone, by some German …

English civil war military ghosts

Filed under: Uncategorized - 04 Sep 2011

The ghosts or spirits of soldiers who fought in battle during the English civil war and were killed during the battle could be seen still fighting and dying long after the battle ended, according to witnesses.
Their ghosts or spirits were …

September 3, 2011

Dead World War 1 soldier killed by artillery fire

Filed under: World War 1 photos of death - 03 Sep 2011

A photo of a dead World War 1 soldier hanging in a tree. He was almost certainly killed by artillery fire, the explosion of the shell blasting him into the tree
It is impossible to identify his nationality because most of …

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