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One Hundred Years Ago

Started by Rix Gins, January 01, 2016, 08:20:14 PM

albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on February 07, 2019, 03:57:48 AM

Sergeant Alvin C. York, 328th Infantry, who with aid of 17 men, captured 132 German prisoners; shows hill on which raid took place [October 8, 1918]. Argonne Forest, near Cornay, France.  Photo was taken on February 7, 1919.
By Pfc. F.C. Phillips - High resolution download from http://www.defenseimagery.mil/assetDetails.action?guid=a8726fa80ddc6e0d161cc818b098284e915b214d, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3973229

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York
Possibly my favorite movie. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsGD_At6QRg 



Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, February 11, 1919.


QuoteA British DH9 Aeroplane at the Waddington aerodrome, 11 February 1919.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205306083 © IWM (Q 56581)


QuoteMechanics of the Royal Air Force swinging the propeller of a Sopwith Dolphin at Cologne, Germany, 11 February 1919.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239184 © IWM (Q 7364)

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, February 12, 1919.


QuoteMilking cows at the British Army Dairy Farm at Cologne, Germany, 12 February 1919.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239189 © IWM (Q 7369)


QuoteChurning at the British Army Dairy Farm at Cologne, Germany, 12 February 1919.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239191 © IWM (Q 7371)


QuoteWeighing and packing butter at the British Army Dairy Farm at Cologne, Germany, 12 February 1919.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239192 © IWM (Q 7372)

Rix Gins

Actor Forrest Tucker was born on February 12, 1919.

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Tucker
QuoteAt six feet five inches, Tucker tied Sterling Hayden as the tallest star in Hollywood.  Co-star Marie Windsor recalled that she was delighted to play opposite someone her 'own size'.  According to one story, while playing golf with friends he was denied a gimme and objected that the distance was so short that he could knock the ball in with his member. On being challenged, he accomplished the feat.

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The New York Tribune., February 13, 1919.  


Rix Gins

An illustration from The Electric Railway Journal, 1919.


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WOTR

Quote from: Rix Gins on February 11, 2019, 02:35:42 AM

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239184 © IWM (Q 7364)

What the hell is that?  Three men to start the plane?  One who looks like he needs the other two to brace and anchor him (and pull him out of the way of the prop?)  Interesting picture.

I did look up a few videos and I could not find a dolphin- but this is a good one of a starting proceedure of a pup.  However, all of the sopwith's that I could find had the engine start in the opposite direction of your picture... *

*That said, the propeller appears to have the right angle to propel it forward going clockwise...

***Last edit.  It seems that the dolphin was powered by the unreliable French made Hispano-Suiza engine. From what I can tell, these did run clockwise viewed from the front.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbmeBmrBotk

Rix Gins

An ad from The Tiger (student newspaper) Colorado College, 1919.


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Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, February 21, 1919.


QuoteSopwith Atlantic two seat experimental long range biplane. The machine on which Harry Hawker and Mackenzie-Grieve made their unsuccessful trans-Atlantic attempt.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205314892 © IWM (Q 67486)


QuoteSopwith Atlantic long range biplane. The machine on which Harry Hawker and Mackenzie-Grieve made their unsuccessful attempt to cross the Atlantic in 1919.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205314901 © IWM (Q 67497)

Info on Harry Hawker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hawker
Info on Sopwith Atlantic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Atlantic

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Seattle Star., February 21, 1919. 


Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, February 23, 1919.


QuoteA troop station map of France in office of the Personnel Division in Tours, 23 February 1919.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205354827 © IWM (Q 112261)

K_Dubb

Quote from: Rix Gins on February 23, 2019, 03:08:28 AM
From the Imperial War Museum, February 23, 1919.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205354827 © IWM (Q 112261)

That looks like it would be fun to play with.  I wonder if the portrait is a special mourning one or if it is recycled from when he was pres.

Rix Gins

Quote from: K_Dubb on February 23, 2019, 08:25:13 AM
That looks like it would be fun to play with.  I wonder if the portrait is a special mourning one or if it is recycled from when he was pres.

My brain keeps wanting to put a checkers board on the table top.

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Seattle Star., February 24, 1919.


albrecht

Quote from: Rix Gins on February 23, 2019, 01:45:22 PM
My brain keeps wanting to put a checkers board on the table top.
Some years ago I saw Churchill's war room in London and parts of it looked like it was just an epic game of Risk, albeit in a bunker.

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, February 26, 1919.


QuoteLorries handed over by the Germans to the Allies. Cologne, Germany, 26 February 1919.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239224 © IWM (Q 7404)


QuoteMen of the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on guard duty at the Bosch munition factory at Zons, near Cologne, during a rest period, 26 February 1919.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239221 © IWM (Q 7401)

Rix Gins

From the Canadian Grocer trade magazine, 1919.


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SpaceMeowMaid

Quote from: Rix Gins on March 01, 2019, 01:46:28 AM
Stars and Stripes.  Nice!  Thank you, Flyingmerkitty.
Oh well, thank you. This thread is genius.

Rix Gins

From the Imperial War Museum, March 1, 1919.


QuoteBelgian sentries with a M1895 Colt-Browning machine-gun on the bridge over the River Rhine from Ober-Kassel in the Belgian bridgehead to Dusseldorf in the neutral zone. Owing to the Spartacist rising in the latter, the Belgians permitted no one to pass. 1 March 1919.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239232 © IWM (Q 7412)


QuoteTwo tram cars on the bridge over the River Rhine from Ober-Kassel in the Belgian bridgehead to Dusseldorf in the neutral zone, used as quarters by the Belgian guards. Owing to the Spartacist rising in the latter, the Belgians permitted no one to pass. 1 March 1919.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239233 © IWM (Q 7413)


QuoteBarbed wire barrier, Belgian guard and notice at the Dusseldorf end of the bridge. Notice forbids crossing the bridge and states that anyone attempting to do so is liable to be fired on.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239237 © IWM (Q 7417)

K_Dubb

Quote from: Rix Gins on March 01, 2019, 02:43:51 AM
From the Imperial War Museum, March 1, 1919.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239232 © IWM (Q 7412)

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239233 © IWM (Q 7413)

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239237 © IWM (Q 7417)

This is important documentation of the one time the Belgians were actually able to stop somebody.

Rix Gins

Quote from: K_Dubb on March 01, 2019, 06:26:00 AM
This is important documentation of the one time the Belgians were actually able to stop somebody.

So true.  I wonder if the guards could stop a charging crowd of one or two thousand, all yelling, "I am Spartacist!"

K_Dubb

Quote from: Rix Gins on March 01, 2019, 03:15:04 PM
So true.  I wonder if the guards could stop a charging crowd of one or two thousand, all yelling, "I am Spartacist!"

Hahaha quick hide the nuns!

GravitySucks

Quote from: Rix Gins on March 01, 2019, 03:15:04 PM
So true.  I wonder if the guards could stop a charging crowd of one or two thousand, all yelling, "I am Spookcat"

FIFY

WOTR

Quote from: K_Dubb on March 01, 2019, 06:26:00 AM
This is important documentation of the one time the Belgians were actually able to stop somebody.
You get used to the jokes about the French (at least in Canada...) But rarely are the Belgians mentioned.

K_Dubb

Quote from: WOTR on March 01, 2019, 09:17:30 PM
You get used to the jokes about the French (at least in Canada...) But rarely are the Belgians mentioned.

They have skated long enough on Poirot's mustache.  Time to take the gloves off.

Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Evening Star, March 03, 1919.


Rix Gins

From the Library of Congress.  The Grand Forks Herald., March 04, 1919.


Rix Gins


A diplomatic courier took this photograph of a fire engine passing the Humboldt University of Berlin on March 6, 1919, responding to a fire caused by ongoing street fighting during the German revolution of 1918-1919.
Public domain   https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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