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A lack of trenches. Trench warfare was obsolete by world war two because of the advent of more powerful tanks and aircraft among other weapons. Though troops did entrench at times generally to increase the odds of survival on case of artillery attacks and frontal assaults there were never again miles of trenches as in WWI.
During World War I, "support trenches" were found throughout the theaters of the war wherever trench-lines were constructed. Running perpendicular and parallel both to the main defense-line trenches, support trenches enabled front-line troops to communicate with each other, receive supplies, and organize for coming battles without being in the line of fire of the enemy across the (often quite narrow) "no man's land" between enemy lines.
In the same trench, they'd probably just yell down the line or walk. If they were in different trenches, they'd send a runner, someone with a track or some sort of running background to pretty much dodge bullets to get the message to the other trench.
Trench warfare, which was a tactic where both opposing sides dug trenches in the soil about 50 - 100m. apart, just deep enough to shelter the soldiers from enemy's sight. The soldiers would be called "over the top" and this was when medieval tactics of simply charging the enemy with waves of troops coming out from the trenches armed with various guns and bayonets, this resulted in many deaths as the trenches were a better defense zone than an offense zone due to the hidden snipers and the dangers set up in no man's land (land between opposing trenches), which were put up to stop the waves of troops. Barbed wire and land mines were often used in no man's land while defending machine guns and snipers would hold back the waves of soldiers. These tactics lead to stalemate in the war due to their lack of success and the difficulty it took for one side to overthrown the other in the trenches.
These trenches were not easy to get rid of, if you went over the top to attack the other side, machine guns would strike men down.
they slept in trenches with rats and other nasty animals
There were differences in the function and importance of trenches. The first one (closest to the enemy) was also called the Front Line or the Fire Line. A 100 yards behind it you had the support trench and again some 100 yards behind, the reserve trench. And then you had the connecting trenches, who were just there so you could get from one trench to the other. There wasn't a real 'hierarchy' anmong trenches: the front line was most important for fighting, but the other two were important for their support facilities, radio and command rooms and as places for soldiers to rest from front line duties.
A lack of trenches. Trench warfare was obsolete by world war two because of the advent of more powerful tanks and aircraft among other weapons. Though troops did entrench at times generally to increase the odds of survival on case of artillery attacks and frontal assaults there were never again miles of trenches as in WWI.
Usually it ment time to die, that is go over the top and charge the other sides trenches
During World War I, "support trenches" were found throughout the theaters of the war wherever trench-lines were constructed. Running perpendicular and parallel both to the main defense-line trenches, support trenches enabled front-line troops to communicate with each other, receive supplies, and organize for coming battles without being in the line of fire of the enemy across the (often quite narrow) "no man's land" between enemy lines.
In the same trench, they'd probably just yell down the line or walk. If they were in different trenches, they'd send a runner, someone with a track or some sort of running background to pretty much dodge bullets to get the message to the other trench.
It was a 'chicken and egg' situation. One side's soldiers were in the trenches to stop the other side's soldiers in their trenches from getting any advantage,.
Trenches were used extensively in World War I in countries such as France, Belgium, Germany, and other Western European nations where the front lines were established.
The trenches were Dirty, smelly, horrible places. You had other peoples corpses (dead bodies) everywhere. And there were also rats :(
Answerwhat they did is they hidd in the trench's for cover and to reload but its as good to be out there then in there because mud went into your shoes and you used to get flu like trench foot and your feet used to get so cold there used to puff up and get blisters
It was written in 1917, and was published with his collection (counter-attack and other poems) in 1918.
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