WWI Weapons & Equipment Photos

World War I introduced a new range of mechanization, and with trench warfare, new tools for fighting.

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Gun from World War I at Indiana Military Museum. Vincennes, IN.Gun from World War I at Indiana Military Museum. Vincennes, IN.Hotchkiss TR 37mm gun at Army Museum at Les Invalides. Paris, France.WWI field artillery guns at Armistice Rail Car Museum. Compiègne, France.
Gun from World War I at Indiana Military Museum. Vincennes, IN.Gun from World War I at Indiana Military Museum. Vincennes, IN.Hotchkiss TR 37mm gun (1916) at Army Museum at Les Invalides. Paris, France.WWI field artillery guns at Armistice Rail Car Museum. Compiègne, France.
Renault tank FT17, first employed May 1918, at Armistice Rail Car museum. Compiègne, France.Renault tank FT17, first employed May 1918, at Armistice Rail Car Museum. Compiègne, France.Renault FT17 tank at Army Museum at Les Invalides. Paris, France.Krupp armored guns built in 1894 captured from Bulgarians in WWI at Military Museum in Athens. Greece.
Renault tank FT17, first employed May 1918, at Armistice Rail Car museum. Compiègne, France.Renault tank FT17, first employed May 1918, at Armistice Rail Car Museum. Compiègne, France.Renault FT17 tank (1918) at Army Museum at Les Invalides. Paris, France.Krupp armored guns built in 1894 captured from Bulgarians in WWI at Military Museum in Athens. Greece.
Unic Taxi-Cab from France used as an ambulance in WWI at Forney Museum. Denver, CO.Taxi Renault G7 which on Sept. 7, 1941 delivered c6000 French troops from Paris in 670 taxis to frontline combat against invading Germans at Army Museum at Les Invalides. Paris, France.WWI rolling field kitchen at U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum. Petersburg, VA.WWI wire cutters used in trench warfare at Stirling Castle Regimental Museum. Stirling, Scotland.
Unic Taxi-Cab (1909) from France used as an ambulance in WWI at Forney Museum. Denver, CO.Taxi Renault G7 (aka Taxi de la Marne) which on Sept. 7, 1941 delivered c6000 French troops from Paris in 670 taxis to frontline combat against invading Germans at Army Museum at Les Invalides. Paris, France.WWI rolling field kitchen at U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum. Petersburg, VA.WWI wire cutters used in trench warfare at Stirling Castle Regimental Museum. Stirling, Scotland.
WWI PH gas hood at Stirling Castle Regimental Museum. Stirling, Scotland.Gas mask & warning rattle at Vimy Ridge Memorial. Vimy, France.WWI trench warfare display with periscope at Stirling Castle Regimental Museum. Stirling, Scotland.WWI trench periscopes & mirrors at Stirling Castle Regimental Museum. Stirling, Scotland.
WWI PH (Phenote-Hexamine) gas hood (c1916) at Stirling Castle Regimental Museum. Stirling, Scotland.Gas mask & warning rattle at Vimy Ridge Memorial. Vimy, France.WWI trench warfare display with periscope at Stirling Castle Regimental Museum. Stirling, Scotland.WWI trench periscopes & mirrors at Stirling Castle Regimental Museum. Stirling, Scotland.
WWI uniform & revolver at Stirling Castle Regimental Museum. Stirling, Scotland.McClellan saddle from World War I at West Virginia State Museum. Charleston, WV.World War I era dental instruments used until 1980 at Savannah History Museum. Savannah, GA.Collection of objects from WWI & WWII at Museum of Work & Culture. Woonsocket, RI.
WWI uniform & revolver at Stirling Castle Regimental Museum. Stirling, Scotland.McClellan saddle from World War I at West Virginia State Museum. Charleston, WV.World War I era dental instruments used until 1980 at Savannah History Museum. Savannah, GA.Collection of objects from WWI & WWII at Museum of Work & Culture. Woonsocket, RI.
Photos of Armistice Rail Car being returned, on Hitler's orders, to location where it stood at signing of WWI armistice at Armistice Rail Car Museum. Compiègne, France.Objects made by WWI frontline soldiers during their long periods of waiting from rubble collected on battlefield at Armistice Rail Car Museum. Compiègne, France.Decorated metal container made by WWI frontline soldier from battlefield rubble shell casing at Armistice Rail Car Museum. Compiègne, France.Decorative objects made by WWI frontline soldiers from battlefield rubble at Armistice Rail Car Museum. Compiègne, France.
Photos of Armistice Rail Car being returned, on Hitler's orders, to location where it stood at signing of WWI armistice at Armistice Rail Car Museum. Compiègne, France.Objects made by WWI frontline soldiers during their long periods of waiting from rubble collected on battlefield at Armistice Rail Car Museum. Compiègne, France.Decorated metal container made by WWI frontline soldier from battlefield rubble shell casing at Armistice Rail Car Museum. Compiègne, France.Decorative objects made by WWI frontline soldiers from battlefield rubble at Armistice Rail Car Museum. Compiègne, France.
Decorative objects made by WWI frontline soldiers from battlefield rubble at Armistice Rail Car Museum. Compiègne, France.WWI field telephone of Canadian Expeditionary Forces at Vimy Ridge Memorial. Vimy, France.

Decorative objects made by WWI frontline soldiers from battlefield rubble at Armistice Rail Car Museum. Compiègne, France.WWI field telephone of Canadian Expeditionary Forces at Vimy Ridge Memorial. Vimy, France.

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