Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-17
Assembling Great Collection War Washngto
Museum Will Have Exhibit When Is COMPLICATIONS
sands of Articles Used by Are Being GhdA
Service Exhbiton-Th German Trick of Using Bear Traps
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tractor biplane used by the German
air service for pursuit purposes. 1t
is fitted with a Mercedes motor OF leO
horsepower and two Spandau ma
chine guns. This plane was captured
at Verdun by Capt. H. McLanahan.
and Lieuts E. Curtis and S. Sewall of
the first pursuit group, 95th Aero
Squadron. L. S. A, Capt. j. Mitchell
commanding.
The ordnance collection is remark
ably complete, 1t includes equipment
of the type used by the various armies
for offensive and defensive purposes.
The specimens deserving of special
mention are French and British nm.
guns. the style of ordnance most used
by the allies during the war; the
American Al gun. the American 81
|, NM infantry machine gun, the 10
nm. mountain howitZer and the French
155 nm. gun and howitzer: trench
mortars of three inches: six inches
and 240 NM, all with full sets OF
equipment, tools and other accessories
The Browning, Lewis, Hotchkiss and
Nickers machine guns, the French ST
Etienne machine gun and Chauchat
automatic rifle; complete collection
of small arms, used by the United
States throughout the war. also sec
tionalized projectiles. including aerial
bombs shells, cartridges. hand and
rife grenades, adapters, boosters and
fuses. and a collection of rifles. pis-
tolls and swords illustrating the va
rious styles of weapons used during
the world war by the armies of Aus
tria, Belgium. England. France. japan,
Italy. Germany: Russia and Serbia.
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OF more than passing interest are
the specimens of silk cartridge cloth
used by the United States Army for
powder bags for loading the large
guns.
In the chemical warfare service
section of the exhibit can be seen
the equipment used by both the al
lied and enemy countries. including
gas, smoke and incendiary shells, gas,
smoke and incendiary trench mortar
bombs, gas projectiles. gas cloud APP
paratuS, smoke producers, flame pro-
jectors, chemical grenades. aerial gas.
smoke and incendiary bombs, masks.
respirators, helmets. goggles. special
clothing and alarms. This collection
not only includes the latest and most
up to- date objects of the type de-
scribed. but also nearly complete
series showing the DEVELOPMENT of
such articles from their earliest form
to the most recent.
There is a comprehensive exhibit
portraying the part played in mod
ern warfare by the engineering
branch of the Army. This embraces
the tools and small equipment and
large instruments peculiar to the
work of the Engineering Corps. which
was such an important factor in the
winning of the war. Particularly in
teresting in this collection are to be
found a parabolic listening device
used for determining the location
of enemy aeroplanes at night and di-
recting searchlights against them;
soundranging set for locating the
position Of enemy batteries by re-
cording the sound Of the guns; a
flash ranging set, which locates the
position of enemy batteries by
recording the flashes of the guns;
examples of the thirty-six-inch and
the sixty-inch high-intensity electric
arc searchlights and of the sixty
inch open-type searchlights: true-to-
nature models showing the use of
camouf1age materials in trench war
fare with dummy silhouettes of SOL
diers to draw machine gun fire: rep
resentation of standard type trench
and shelter cave chamber; models of
bridges. pontoon boats, wagons and a
camoufiaged gun position.
The magnificent work performed