British Air Force slang. Influence of the First World War

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Peter J. Mitchell ◽  
Andrey A. Andrakhanov ◽  
Egor V. Trusov
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
First World War ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
World War ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
World War One ◽  
Linguistic Support ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

World War One had an impact not only the development of international relations throughout the 20th century, but also led to the creation of air forces of different countries. More than 30 countries participated in the First World War. The British Empire, which fought on the side of the Entente, was one of them. During the First World War, the importance of the Air Force increased. It played a decisive role in gaining dominance amidst the aerospace. Aviation, which tasks included aerial reconnaissance and bomb attacks, evolved significantly. A huge number of new experimental military equipment have appeared. All of this produced a huge number of military slang terms. In this study, we will examine the slang terms that appeared in the slang of the British Air Force during the First World War, classify them and make a conclusion about the influence of the First World War on the development of military slang terms. During the training of specialists in the linguistic support of military activity, the topic of military slang remains understudied, which is why interpreters have difficulties in translating slang units. Therefore, the studying of this phenomenon can improve the skills of military interpreters and allow them to avoid major mistakes in their professional activity.

Defending the Dardanelles: Cevat Paşa, ‘The Hero of 18 March’

2021 ◽  
pp. 096834452110214
Author(s):  
Gün Kut
Keyword(s):  
Decisive Role ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Careful Planning ◽  
Army Officer ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Successful Execution ◽  
Ultimate Failure ◽  
Defensive Measures ◽  
First World

Cevat Paşa (General Cevat Çobanlı: 1870-1938) was an Ottoman Army officer who played a decisive role in the defence of the Dardanelles Strait against the Allied offensive during the First World War. He had been primarily responsible for the preparation and improvement of defensive plans as the commander of the Çanakkale Fortified Zone, as well as the implementation of these plans during the Allied naval assault of 19 February-18 March 1915. The ultimate failure of the offensive was mainly due to the careful planning and successful execution of defensive measures under the command of Cevat Paşa.

100 Years Ago: A Bibliographical Calendar of Diplomacy and International Law: In the Years 1914 and 1915

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 517-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Schwietzke ◽  
Peter Macalister-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
International Law ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The World ◽  
The Military ◽  
First World

This Bibliographical Calendar focuses on a general armed conflict within Europe that spread to most parts of the world. It started during the second decade of the twentieth century. In this context the present Calendar offers an overview of the chronology leading up to the First World War. It is also a documented survey of official transactions relating to the World War with particular attention to the sources of record. The main focus of the work is on diplomatic acts of the belligerent and neutral parties that accompanied the military dimension of the conflict.The Calendar assumes the form of a compilation of related kinds of information situated between a bibliography and a repertory, with the aim of elucidating the course of World War One from the perspectives of international law and diplomacy.

The Contribution of Radio Telephony, Telegraphy and the Later Electronic Techniques to Aviation

1966 ◽  
Vol 70 (661) ◽  
pp. 230-231
Author(s):  
F. S. Barton ◽  
N. Cox Walker
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Air Force ◽  
First World War ◽  
Radio Communication ◽  
World War ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service, which were combined in 1918 to form the Royal Air Force, both ended the First World War with radio communication by telegraphy and telephony between aircraft and ground stations and between actual aircraft.The equipment to achieve this was the result of research and development carried out for the Royal Flying Corps at various military establishments such as the Signals Experimental Establishment at Woolwich and for the Royal Naval Air Service, first at Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, and latterly at Cranwell.

scholarly journals Medialität und Auratisierung

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Johannes Beil
Keyword(s):  
Decisive Role ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

AbstractLike in other Expressionist movies around the First World War, writing plays a decisive role in Paul Wegener’s silent movie

scholarly journals The Imperial German Navy, 1897 - 1918: Negotiating the nation

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Jesse Bachmann
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
World War One ◽  
National Symbol ◽  
The First World War ◽  
German Nation ◽  
Motivating Factor ◽  
German Navy ◽  
First World

<p class="p1">This article seeks to analyze the linkages between the Imperial German Navy and Germany’s domestic sphere from the years 1897 to 1918. Prior scholarship has suggested that the expansion of the Imperial German Navy, beginning in 1897, was strongly caused by internal domestic factors. This article disagrees with this assertion, pointing out how international concerns were the main motivating factor. Nonetheless, the paper does accept the general premise that the navy played a strong role in Germany’s domestic sphere. To this end, this article analyzes how, prior to World War One, the navy was built into a national symbol aimed at overcoming the German empire’s regional particularities. This article then bridges a gap in existing scholarship by linking the pre-war symbolic importance of the navy to its experience during the war and the naval revolts that occurred in 1918. In particular, this article argues that the national idea codified in the navy prior to the war was then challenged by the navy’s generally poor experience during the First World War. This contributed to the naval revolts of 1918 which caused a reevaluation of the German nation and toppled the empire.</p>

Time on the Pulse: Affective Encounters with the Wristwatch in the Literature of Modernism and the First World War

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-178
Author(s):  
Cedric Van Dijck
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
The Body ◽  
Modern World ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Affect Studies ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Object Studies ◽  
First World

Time is a constitutive feature of modernism, which developed in a period when the stability of the self was disintegrating. This paper considers the link between modernist temporality and affect by looking at the wristwatch, the first timepiece worn on the body. I focus on its emergence in World War One and go on to discuss two encounters with the timepiece in Siegfried Sassoon's ‘Attack’ (1918) and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927). In these texts the figure of the conflation of wristwatch/ticking and wrist/pulse articulates a loss of individual mobility and agency in the modern world. The wristwatch symbolizes the way in which oppressive systems of time were lived and internalized. Situated at the crossroads of affect studies, object studies, and the study of modernist time, my argument posits that the object informed an understanding of temporality in corporeal terms. Because of that focus on affect, the wristwatch suggests how the First World War may be seen as a vital part of the modernist timescape.

2. Beginnings

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-29
Author(s):  
Frank Ledwidge
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Air Force ◽  
First World War ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Once powered aircraft had taken to the air in the early 20th century, it did not take long for their potential as a military instrument to be realized. The First World War demonstrated that aeroplanes would indeed be war machines, and very formidable ones. ‘Beginnings: the First World War 1914–1918’ explains that whilst it was never a decisive arm on any WW1 front, all the elements of aircraft’s future deployment were present with the exception of its mobility potential. By the end of the war, the combatant nations had thousands of aircraft in their inventories with their attendant administrative and logistical structures. The world’s first independent air arm, the Royal Air Force, had been formed.

scholarly journals Back to the Future

Fascism ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Nelis
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Italian Fascism ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Italian Politics ◽  
The Many ◽  
Historical Past ◽  
First World

Among the many ‘founding myths’ of Italian Fascism such as those regarding its relationship to the First World War, one element stood out as key to both its quest for absolute dominion over the Italian peninsula and its historically based self-concept and representation: the idea of present-day Italy as incarnating the spirit and virtuousness of Roman (late Republican and early Imperial) antiquity, creating the image of a Terza Roma, of a ‘third’, Fascist Rome. This concept was omnipresent throughout the entire period within which Mussolini dominated Italian politics. This very specific use of the historical past is discussed in this article, tracing its presence in various parts of the cultural and intellectual field, identifying the manifold ways in which history can meet contemporary, and ‘futural’, prerequisites. In so doing, it is inspired by recent scholarship underlining the futural, temporal thrust of Fascism and romanità, rather than its traditionally reactionary, backward-looking dynamic. As seems, at least to a certain extent, to have been the case in Nazi Germany, for the Fascists, antiquity indeed was no faraway, dusty past, but a lively source of inspiration and energy revealing the regime’s modernist, revolutionary ambition to build a ‘Third Rome’ which, literally and figuratively, made visible the earlier layers of Roman heritage.

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