Kyle Hatzinger, a history instructor at the U.S. "Then it becomes, 'How do we get out of the trenches?'" said Maj. This kind of fighting was unfamiliar to most American forces, who had been trained in the tactics of mobile warfare, always advancing. It forced opposing forces to dig hundreds of miles of trenches, with a deadly "no man's land" in between where soldiers could get mowed down. But it was American inventor Hiram Maxim's 1880s design for a single-barrel, portable machine gun and other later versions that became ubiquitous on both sides during World War I. A look at some of the things that were new to the doughboys that we take for granted today: In this Apphoto, Courtney Burns, director of the New York State Military Museum holds a German 1918 Maxim MG-08 light machine gun at the museum in Saratoga Springs, N.Y Photo Credit: Chris Carola/AP MACHINE GUNS Hand-cranked, high-capacity, rapid-firing firearms had been used as far back as the Civil War. The world's first mechanized war introduced enhanced weaponry and equipment, most of it designed to take lives but some of it aimed at saving lives. 11, 1918, more than 4.7 million Americans had served and some 115,000 died. America entered nearly three years after the war began, joining Britain, France and Russia in the fight against Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. entry into World War I, and some of the innovations that were developed or came into wide use during the conflict are still with us today. Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S.
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