After Germany’s spring offensives stalled and morale collapsed, Allied commanders planned a surprise counterblow on the Somme. To preserve secrecy, tanks and infantry were massed without a preliminary ...
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (Sept. 13, 2012) -- For decades a pair of 21-cm Morser 16s was on display outside the Fort Meade Museum, exhibiting the German weaponry of World War I. In the early 1990s, ...