World War One comp
German pilot falling from aircraft. Parachutes were not common during the war, as officers were afraid pilots would bail out every time they were in combat.
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Prosthetic face masks, for those suffering facial wounds. The top row contains casts of the soldier's original face, while the bottom row is the reconstructed mask.
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Crucifix looming over a dead soldier, after skirmish on the western front (circa 1917). Photographed by Walter Kleinfeldt , a 16 year old German soldier.
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German soldier attempting to sleep in a dugout.
ANZAC soldier at Gallipoli.
Battle of the Somme,1916.
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Dead Italian soldiers after a gas attack. Over 1.3 million soldiers were either injured or killed by chemical attacks during the war.
John Singer Sargent's "Gas attack", a 7' x 20' oil painting depicting British troops after a mustard gas attack. 1919.
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"Soldat und Tod" = "Soldier and Death" - Hans Larwin 1917
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"Insensibility" featured in a poem by Wilfred Owen (not sure of artist).
"Happy are men who yet before they are killed
Can let their veins run cold.
Whom no compassion fleers
Or makes their feet
Sore on the alleys cobbled with their brothers.
The front line withers,
But they are troops who fade, not flowers
For poets’ tearful fooling:
Men, gaps for filling:
Losses, who might have fought
Longer; but no one bothers."
Just some images I found while doing some research, figured I'd might as well share them as they are very interesting. This is my first comp, and depending on the response I might make more (possibly even WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc).
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