Great War Gizmos

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

barbed-wire - the bane of Great War battlefields

here we see a British idea involving rocket-driven rakes and manpower to do away with those hinderous obstancles

or if everyone would just send their old matresses to the front

they would come in very handy indeed

a unit of French grapple-hook gunners

a theoretical action of grapple-hooks being fired into barbed-wire entanglements

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