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December 19, 1916

The Great War: New Weapons

Change the way we Fight the War
Beginning of
Air Warfare

Birth of the
Fighter Jet

Is the great war the beginning

of air warfare. As these soldiers clash into the battlefield
the newly invented airplanes
gave allied and central powers
full vision of their battlefield. A
great example of this was in
the battle of Mons which recently happened on August 23,
1914. It was the first battle
against the British and the
Germans. Lt. W. R. Read was a
pilot in the fledgling Royal Flying Corps. In the early days of
August 1914 the Corps was ordered to transport its force of
63 planes to France and provide vision of enemy troop
movements. Read kept a diary

There's a war going on in the

air for the first time. In the sky
during the war there's soldiers
that are fighting in planes with
machine guns mounted on the
planes. The "propellers" what
they call is the blades that
make the plane fly from the
front of the planes and the
machine guns can shoot
through the propellers. this article is about a French soldier
who had a crazy idea that was
pulled against the Germans. A
couple weeks ago on April 1
1915 a pilot named Roland
Garros took fight with a machine gun that can shoot
through the propellers. Garros
tried something that was risky
and it actually worked. He put
steel plates on the surface of
the plane so he can deflect the
bullets, everyone thought he
was crazy but then he proved

of his experiences and we join

his story as he and his observer - Jackson - fly over the area
of Mons, Belgium. Throughout
his narrative, Lt. Read refers to
his plane as "Henri:" 23
August. Went up for reconnaissance at 11.30 with Major Moss
as passenger [observer]. I
could not get Henri to climb at
first so came down and lightened the load, then we soon
got away at 3,800 feet. We
found the enemy very thick to
the south-east of Thuin and a
battle was in progress below
us. The artillery on both sides
were very busy. It was very interesting to watch. In one field
a French battery opened fire; it
had not fired more than two
rounds per gun when shell af-

ter shell from a German battery burst over them. It must

have been perfect hell for the
French battery and silenced
them at once. On the way back
some German howitzer battery opened fire on us from
north-west of Thuin. One shell
splinter passed through my
let plane but did no damage.
Some infantry in Thuin also
wasted a thousand rounds or
so trying to bring us down.
Ending of diary.

New
Mechanical
Deadly
Machines
If you were ever wondering
how the tank came to be than
this article is just for you. In
the summer of 1915 the western front was a stalemate and
nothing was going on because
the trenches gave all the protection a soldier needed. A vehicle was needed one that
could easily and eortless
travel across trenches to give
soldiers an advantage. Development of this vehicle began
in that very same summer. The
idea was to combine the caterpillar tracks of an American
tractor with an iron-clad machine that could easily bypass
the enemy's trenches. By

spring of the following year it

was completed. The new vehicle, the tank, which became
the vehicle we all know well
now made its first appearance
recently on September 15
1916. Bert Chaney was a nineteen-year-old signal oicer
and had a front-row seat as
three of the new weapons
made their appearance in his
sector of the battlefield. We
join his story as the tanks lumber into position before the attack. "We heard strange throbbing noises, and lumbering
slowly towards us came three
huge mechanical monsters
such as we had never seen before. My first impression was
that they looked ready to topple on their noses, but their
tails and the two little wheels
at the back held them down
and kept them level. Big metal
things they were, with two
sets of caterpillar wheels that
went right round the body.
There was a huge bulge on
each side with a door in the
bulging part, and machine
guns on swivels poked out
from either side. The engine, a
petrol engine of massive proportions, occupied practically
all the inside space. Mounted
behind each door was a motorcycle type of saddle, seat
and there was just about
enough room let for the belts
of ammunition and the
drivers.

them wrong. Garros deflected

any bullets that might stuck
the spring blades. people
thought he was crazy but his
first flight up it worked. within
two weeks from his first flight
there was already four planes
on his list to kill. He became a
national hero and his total of
five kills made him an "Flying
Ace". However about a week
ago on April 19 1915 Garros
was forced to reveal his secret
to the Germans. Dutch aircrat
manufacturer Anthony Fokker

was immediately called over

to inspect the plane. What
Fokker did was duplicated
Garros's plane and revealed it
to the Germans.

The Sinking
of the
Lusitania
About three years ago an
American cruise ship called
the Lusitania with 1,198 passengers has taken o on May
1st 1915 from New York City
on May 7th the Lusitania was
floating through the Irish sea.
At the time the President of
the United States was President Woodrow Wilson and
America was staying out of the
war between most of the nations. But at 2 pm there was a
German submarine stalking
the Lusitania and a the first
torpedo hit and then seconds
ater the second torpedo hit,
20 minutes later the Great
Lusitania slipped under water
with 138 Americans dead,
throughout the whole attack
all 1,198 passengers were
dead. The U-Boat (submarine)
that killed 1,198 Americans by
sinking American cruise ship,
the Lusitania, was the reason
the President of the United
States declared that they declared war 2 year later ater
the attack of the Lusitania.

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