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Germany's Fighting Machine

Part 3 — APPENDIX

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List of Illustrations

fpc. Kaiser Wilhelm II

fig01 The Crown Prince and Crown Princess

fig02 Prince Henry of Prussia, the Emperor's Brother

fig03 The Unworldly Kaiserin as the Protectress of the Fatherless

fig04 Princess Victoria Louise, the Emperor's Only Daughter

fig05 A Portrait of Wilhelm II, signed: “Wilhelm: I[mperator]. R[ex].".

fig06 General von Heeringen

fig07 General von Eichhorn

fig08 General von Bülow

fig09 General von Prittwitz

fig10 The Kaiser with the Bürgemeister of Aix-la-Chapelle on the Balcony of the Town Hall

fig11 The Emperor at Maneuvers

fig12 Duke Albert of Würtemberg

fig13 Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria

fig14 Grand Duke Frederick II of Baden

fig15 Bird's-eye View Berlin Parade Grounds

fig16 Arrival of Recruits

fig17 The Field Kitchen

fig18 Transmitting and Receiving Orders by Telephone

fig19 Telegrams

fig20 Giving Orders

fig21 Telegraph Battalion

fig22 Military Telephone Station

fig23 Putting up Campaign Tents

fig24 Death's-head Hussars

fig25 The Crown prince

fig26 The Crown Prince at Mess

fig27 Line Infantry

fig28 Rear Guard in Ambush

fig29 Artillery Patrol

fig30 Infantry on the March

fig31 Floating the Pontoons

fig32 Machine Guns being Loaded on Pontoons

fig33 Mountain Earthworks

fig34 Pursuit

fig35 Infantry Embarking

fig36 Building a Pontoon Bridge

fig37 Building a Pontoon Bridge

fig38 Combination Hydro and Aeroplane

fig39 War Dogs Used as Messengers

fig40 Covered Field Artillery

fig41 A Howitzer Battery Crossing a Pontoon Bridge

fig42 Rough Riding

fig43 Effect of Two Shells on a Six-Foot Reinforced Concrete Wall

fig44 Scaling Barricades

fig45 Lance Practice with Straw Man

fig46 Cavalry Patrol

fig47 Building a Bridge with Sacks

fig48 A Field Gun

fig49 Wheel Belt for Cannon

fig50 A Howitzer Battery

fig51 Observation Column

fig52 Observation Ladder

fig53 Covered Field Artillery

fig54 Military Airdome at Cologne Showing Zeppelin Number II

fig55 Cabin of the Zeppelin Airship Hansa

fig56 Military Airship in Process of Construction

fig57 Gondola of the Schütte-Lanz I Airship

fig58 Airship Parseval

[1] “Parseval” was the name given to a type of non-rigid airship that were designed by August von Parseval. The caption should be “A Parseval Airship”.

fig59 Austrian Military Airship Parseval

[2] The caption should be “An Austrian Military Parseval Airship”.

fig60 Marine Airship

fig61 A Zeppelin over the Kiel Bay

fig62 Albatross-Taube Model 1914

fig63 Albatross-Taube Packed for Shipping

fig64 Double Monoplane

fig65 Albatross Hydro and Aeroplane

fig66 A Taube over the Military Flying Grounds at Johannisthal, near Berlin

fig67 Biplane

fig68 Airship Transportation Wagon

fig69 Uhlans Crossing River

fig70 Patrol of Uhlans

fig71 Uhlans Fording River

fig72 Easily Upset

fig73 H. M. Man-of-War Wittelsbach Passing under a High Bridge in the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal

[3] The term “Man-of-War” is archaic and vague. Wittelsbach was a pre-dreadnought battleship (Linienschiff). The caption would be more precise if “Man-of-War” were replaced by ”Battleship”.

fig74 H. M. Ship Seydlitz in Dry-Dock

fig75 Signaling on Submarine

fig76 For Raising Sunken Submarines

fig77 The Second Squadron Passing the Friedrichsort Light

fig78 H. M. Cruiser Breslau

[4] Breslau was a light cruiser (Kleine Geschütze Kreuzer) of 4,500 tons with four funnels. The ship in this illustration is either Moltke or her sister ship Geoben. Moltke was a battlecruiser (Linienschiff Kreuzer) of 23,000 tons. You can find a good picture of Breslau by searching for “SMS Breslau” on the internet.

fig79 H. M. Royal Yacht Hohenzollern with His Majesty on Board in the Lock at Kiel

fig80 H. M. Cruiser Goeben

[5] The caption should be “H. M. Battlecruiser Goeben”

fig81 Submarine Fleet in Harbour at Kiel

fig82 Armored Cruiser Moltke

[6] The caption should be “Battlecruiser Moltke”.

fig83 A Submarine Flotilla

fig84 Torpedo Boat

fig85 Search Lights

fig86 A Submarine About to Dive

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