Mémorial de Verdun
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English: Verdun Memorial - the museum of the great battle of the World War I - battle of Verdun in France (1916); the museum is located in Fleury-devant-Douaumont near Verdun
Polski: Muzeum Pamięci Bitwy pod Verdun (Mémorial de Verdun) - muzeum wielkiej bitwy I wojny światowej pod Verdun we Francji w 1916; muzeum znajduje się w miejscowości Fleury-devant-Douaumont koło Verdun
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Location | Verdun, arrondissement of Verdun, Meuse, Grand Est, Metropolitan France, France | ||||
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The museum building
[edit]Exhibition outside ...
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French cannon Bange 155 mm Ml 1877
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French cannon 105 mm Schneider Modele 1913
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German trench mortar (Minenwerfer) 170 mm n/A (neuer Art) model with long barrel
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38 cm German shell, 760 kg weight, range 23 - 38 km
... and inside of the museum building
[edit]Soldiers
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French soldier in 1914
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French colonial soldier
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French soldier in 1916
Rifles
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French fusil Lebel Mle 1886 with the grenade launcher VB
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German rifle Mauser Gewehr 98 with rifle grenade laucher
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US rifle Springfield M1903
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German 5 round stripper clip with 7.92x57mm IS ammunition for the Mauser rifle
Muchine guns
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French machine gun Hotchkiss M 1914
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French machine gun Chauchat
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German machine gun MG 08/15
Guns, limbers, caissons
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German 10,5 cm light field howitzer M 16
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French 155 mm gun Schneider M 1917
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French field gun 75 mm Mle 1897 with limber
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Caisson (ammunition carriage)
Mortars and grenade launchers
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German trench mortar Lanz 91 mm
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French grenade launcher 58 mm type 1
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German grenade laucher M 1916 (Gr.W.16) "Taube" ("Pigeon")
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German grenade "Pigeon" M 1916
Helmets and anti-gas masks
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French TNH-type and english gas mask
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US Brodie helmet and gas mask with bag
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French sentry's helmet designed to protect the face, invented by Maj. Pollack, MD, medical officer
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German cuirrassier's helmet
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Helmet of prussian dragoon officer
Aeroplanes
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German fighter aircraft Fokker E.III
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French fighter aircraft Nieuport 11
Hand grenades
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Defensive fragmentation grenade 16 type
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French grenade Citron-Fougass type
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Disc grenade "Turtle" M 1914
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French grenade "Bracelet"
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German grenades
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Incendiary french grenade
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IPercussion scoop grenade
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French grenades bag
Shells
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75 mm tracing shell M 17
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Shells of WWI. From left to right: 90 mm fragmentation shell, 120 mm pig iron incendiary shell 77/14 model, 75 mm high explosive shell model 16, 75 mm fragmentation shell
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75 mm flare
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75 mm incendiary shell G6 fire
Other equipment
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French truck Berliet
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German military bugle
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German military shove
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German military barbed wire cutters
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French hygiene tools
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French sphygmomanometer used during World War I