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Article: Looking back: the war years, the Jazz Age, and the Great Depression, 1915-1940. (history of Field & Stream magazine)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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In 1915, when Field & Stream marked its 20th anniversary, the nations of Europe were entering the first full year of World War I. Already it was settling into a war of attrition made more terrible by new instruments of death. Over the next two years in the trenches of the Western Front, infantrymen choked on poison gas and fell under the withering fire of machine guns and modern artillery. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 20,000 British soldiers died. The first tanks lumbered across No Man's Land, and German airplanes bombed London. In the Atlantic, German submarines sank undefended merchant ships, and in May 1915 a U-boat sent the passenger liner Lusitania to ...