The Corners of My Mind

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Time to get America right. Time to defeat communism, Islam and paganism. Christianity is the religion for America. In God we trust. Amen.

A single soldier on his horse, during a cavalry patrol in World War I. At the start of the war every major army had a substantial cavalry, and they performed well at first. However, the development of barbed wire, machine guns and trench warfare soon made attacks from horseback far more costly and ineffective on the Western Front. Cavalry units did prove useful throughout the war in other theatres though, including the Eastern Front, and the Middle East.

German vintage postcard, illustrated by Arthur Thiele

French soldiers buying and reading newspapers at a kiosk in Rexpoede, in the far north of France (Department Nord, Region Nord-Pas-de-Calais) September 1917. The town is just 20 miles from Ypres, in Belgium, where the Battle of Passchendaele was being fought at this time. The battle was one of the bloodiest of the entire war, but is perhaps more infamous for the mud. The worst rains to hit the Flanders region for 30 years turned parts of the battlefield into a quagmire so deep that men and horses drowned in it.

Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst, Crown Prince of the German Empire and of Prussia on a vintage postcard

German vintage postcard

This image captures a formation of Fokker Dr.I triplane reproductions flying together, a sight jokingly known as "The Attack of the Venetian Blinds.