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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The museum building [edit]

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Exhibition outside ... [edit]

  • French cannon Bange 155 mm Ml 1877

  • French cannon 105 mm Schneider Modele 1913

  • German trench mortar (Minenwerfer) 170 mm n/A (neuer Art) model with long barrel

  • 38 cm German shell, 760 kg weight, range 23 - 38 km

... and inside of the museum building [edit]

Soldiers [edit]

  • French soldier in 1914

  • French colonial soldier

  • French soldier in 1916

Rifles [edit]

  • French fusil Lebel Mle 1886 with the grenade launcher VB

  • German rifle Mauser Gewehr 98 with rifle grenade laucher

  • US rifle Springfield M1903

  • German 5 round stripper clip with 7.92x57mm IS ammunition for the Mauser rifle

Muchine guns [edit]

  • French machine gun Hotchkiss M 1914

  • French machine gun Chauchat

  • German machine gun MG 08/15

Guns, limbers, caissons [edit]

  • German 10,5 cm light field howitzer M 16

  • French 155 mm gun Schneider M 1917

  • French field gun 75 mm Mle 1897 with limber

  • Caisson (ammunition carriage)

Mortars and grenade launchers [edit]

  • German trench mortar Lanz 91 mm

  • French grenade launcher 58 mm type 1

  • German grenade laucher M 1916 (Gr.W.16) "Taube" ("Pigeon")

  • German grenade "Pigeon" M 1916

Helmets and anti-gas masks [edit]

  • French TNH-type and english gas mask

  • US Brodie helmet and gas mask with bag

  • French sentry's helmet designed to protect the face, invented by Maj. Pollack, MD, medical officer

  • German cuirrassier's helmet

  • Helmet of prussian dragoon officer

Aeroplanes [edit]

  • German fighter aircraft Fokker E.III

  • French fighter aircraft Nieuport 11

Hand grenades [edit]

  • Defensive fragmentation grenade 16 type

  • French grenade Citron-Fougass type

  • Disc grenade "Turtle" M 1914

  • French grenade "Bracelet"

  • German grenades

  • Incendiary french grenade

  • IPercussion scoop grenade

  • French grenades bag

Shells [edit]

  • 75 mm tracing shell M 17

  • 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

  • 75 mm flare

  • 75 mm incendiary shell G6 fire

Other equipment [edit]

  • French truck Berliet

  • German military bugle

  • German military shove

  • German military barbed wire cutters

  • French hygiene tools

  • French sphygmomanometer used during World War I

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