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24 Interesting world war 1 facts

ww1 28Ocean liner Olympic, a copy of Titanic, was the only merchant ship in the war to sink an enemy warship. She rammed a German U-boat. Tweet This


ww1 29In the Battle of Doiran, Allies shelled Bulgarian positions with over 500,000 explosive and gas shells and, despite their huge advantage in firepower and manpower, they lost the battle. Tweet This



ww1 30In U.K., more than 1 million joined the armed forces voluntarily by the end of 1914, totalling 2.5 million by end-1915. Tweet This



ww1 31In Britain conscription was only introduced on two occasions – during the two World Wars.  Tweet This


ww1 32Conscription started in 1916; targeting single men aged 18-41. Few months later, married men were also summoned. Tweet This


ww1 3312 million letters were delivered to the front every week from U.K. By the end of the war, two billion letters and 115 million parcels were transported. Tweet This


ww1 34Women, employed in TNT production, had yellow skin and were called ‘canaries’. Tweet This


ww1 35The youngest British soldier was only 12 years old. Tweet This


ww1 36Blood banks were developed by a US Army doctor, Captain Oswald Robertson. He used sodium citrate to prevent blood coagulation. Tweet This


ww1 37Some ships were covered in bold shapes and strong contrasts of colour. Quite the opposite of normal camouflage, dazzle camouflage was meant to confuse the enemy rather than conceal the ships. Tweet This


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ww1 38Russia had the largest army in the war, mobilising 12 million. Staggering 80% of them were killed, wounded, or missing in action. Tweet This



ww1 39During WWI, dogs were used as messengers, as sentries and to lay down telegraph wires. More than 1 million dogs died on WWI battlefields. Tweet This


ww1 40Big Bertha was a German 48-ton howitzer, which could fire 2,100 lb (almost 1 ton) shells to a distance of 9.3 miles (15 km). It had a crew of 200 men. Tweet This


41The Eiffel Tower was used to intercept German radio messages. Some of them led to the execution of Margaretha Zelle a.k.a. Mata Hari. Tweet This


ww1 42In 1917, British deciphered message from Germany to German Embassy in Mexico. The wire encouraged Mexico to invade U.S.A. Tweet This


ww1 43Woodrow Wilson’s campaign slogan for his second term was “He kept us out of war“. Months later, on 6 April 1917, U.S. declared war on Germany. Tweet This


ww1 44During WWI, the Germans, British and French released 130,000 ton of gas. Total of 1,200,000 soldiers were gassed and literally decimated. Tweet This


ww1 45Initially, the only effective protection against gas attacks was a cloth soaked in human urine. Tweet This


ww1 46Adolf Hitler was determined not to use poison gas on the battlefield in WWII because he suffered from gas attack himself during WWI. Tweet This


ww1 47Hitler used to have a normal-sized moustache, but he was ordered to trim it down in order to better accommodate a gas mask. Tweet This


ww1 48The Maxim machine guns weighed about 100 pounds (45 kg) and were water cooled. They fired up to 600 rounds per minute. Tweet This


ww1 49“Hello Girls” were women, fluent in French and English, who served as telephone operators for U.S. forces in Europe. In 1979, the U.S. Army gave medals and veteran benefits to those of them still alive. Tweet This


world war 1 facts 50During WWI, U.S. schools stopped teaching German (second most widely spoken language nationwide), and German books were burned. Tweet This


51American hamburgers became Salisbury steak; Frankfurters – liberty sausages, sauerkraut – liberty cabbage and dachshunds – liberty dogs. Tweet This

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