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Trench Warfare in WWIBarbed wire, deep shelter, lots of guns, recklessness/courage, and patience. Trench war fare was in a word, pointless. Soldiers would wait in disease-ridden, dark, dank, rat infested, mostly cramped trenches for days or weeks at a time, in the winter months, many froze to death. When the signal was given, it was your squad's time to go over the top. Soldiers were forced to mount a charge across barren trenches while dodging shrapnel, pits, and dead bodies, sheilding themselves from waves of mustard gas, and machinegun, artillery, and rifle fire from the enemy trench. Those few who were fortunate(or unfortunate enough) to make it to the enemy trench alive had to deal with the barbed wire strung across the front of it, and the enemy soldiers who attacked the oncomers with whatever they could find. Guns knives, pots, pans, shovels, axes, pieces of broken glass or metal. After the charge, surviving soldiers would retreat back to their trenches. One tactic was to confuse the enemy with nerve gas in a barbed wire area, and if they didnt die from thath they would invariably get trapped in the wire. Then once they were trapped, soldiers would set up their machine gun or use any other weapon and kill the trapped and bewildered soldiers. Trench warfare was described as stripping man down to its most primal nature. It was survival of the fittest, and the fittest showed no mercy, save the armstice on Christmas Day at certain parts of one of the fronts.
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