WW2's most successful WW1 "leftover" (1 Viewer)

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too cute....going down that path opens a whole range of possibilities.....the Soviet Government, German general staff, the Admiralty, stosstruppen tactics, tank warfare....boy the list goes on and on.
 
Irwin Rommel.

I can't believe after all these other WW2 generals, that got their start in WW1, nobody mentions Rommel.

There's not many WW2 generals that weren't in WW1 though , unless you look at the Russians. Stalin had most of them shot.
 
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There's plenty of ground burst shrapnel too. Mortar rounds, hand grenades, rifle grenades, assault artillery rounds, flakvierling rounds, panzerfaust rounds etc.

Actually air burst shrapnel was not only pre WWI it dates to before the Civil war. Because it used different shells than HE and needed good observation/communication to be effective it went out of favor until the proximity fuse greatly simplified things. The trouble with ground burst "SHRAPNEL " is that about 1/2 your fragments go directly into the ground.
 
A British soldier with his rifle (SMLE No. 3) and kit, newly-arrived in Egypt, August 1942.
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One of the things the brodie helmut did was well was keep the rain from running down the back of your neck. I know it doesn't sound like much but when your in the field that type of thing means a lot!!!
 
Broadly speaking, the aircraft carrier and carrier tactics experimented with by the Royal Navy, specifically HMS Furious. Carried out the very first successful aircraft carrier launched air strike on 17/18 July 1918, the first landing of a aeroplane on a carrier deck (although strictly speaking Furious was still a seaplane carrier as the rear deck hadn't been fitted at that stage) and countless experiments with deck landing apparatus in 1918, 1919.

The Royal Naval Air Service's spiritual decendant, the Fleet Air Arm controlled by the Admiralty.
 

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