How did artillery kill people during World War I?

When World War One started, everyone was using shrapnel shells, these were shells filled with a small explosive charge design to sent several dozens of small balls in all direction to kill soldiers caught in the open. read more

During World War One, the Germans tended to have more Howitzers then the Allies till the last year of the War. The French had the best Gun, in its famous model 1897 75mm gun (which stayed in Service through world war two, the 75mm tank gun in the M4 Sherman was a variation of the 1897 75 French Gun). read more

In World War 1 around 8,500,000 soilders died during World War One. Now artillery killed the most people in World War 1. But to be totally honest it is impossible to know exactly how many people died because of Artillery in World War 1. read more

During the four years (1914~1918) of distressing battles, World War 1 caused a total of 37million people to be classified as ‘casualties’, as 8.5 million of them were deaths and 21 million were wounded, the rest are identified as “missing casualties”. read more