Saturday, June 13, 2020

Great War Graphics


Our contributing editor Tony Langley has a wonderful collection of graphic art that supplemented photography in the publications of all the belligerents.  Here are some selections from Tony that range from (what's called today) photo-realism to fiction and from serious to silly.





A French Poilu Gets a Hot Meal


                                A German Depiction of Defending Against an Attack



   A French Drawing of a German Shrapnel Shell



A Deep Dug Out



Sink a Lot of Ships and You Get Chicks



4 comments:

  1. I will try to sink a lot of ships

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  2. Very interesting graphics.

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  3. The Poilu cooking his dinner with electricity from a railway catenary.... did they actually try this? What could possibly go wrong?

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    1. In the Nam we used a small hunk about the size of a golf ball of C4 from a Claymore Mine to heat a C ration can. It burned very fast and hot; one had to be alert as to not scorch the contents. The canabalized Claymore had enough C4 for multiple cooking sessions.

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