Trench

Trenches (fighting holes, slit trenches, etc) were indeed used in World War II by all major combatants. Their main purpose is to provide fighting cover for troops on the front line from enemy fire, and to fight without providing your troops the ability to gain some kind of cover will quickly diminish your forces. Why […]

Was trench warfare effective? Trenches provided protection from bullets and shells, but they did carry their own risks. Trench foot, trench fever, dysentery, and cholera could inflict casualties as readily as any enemy. Why are trenches important in war? During World War I, trench warfare was a defensive military tactic used extensively by both sides, […]

A few of these places are private or public sites with original or reconstructed trenches preserved as a museum or memorial. Nevertheless, there are still remains of trenches to be found in remote parts of the battlefields such as the woods of the Argonne, Verdun and the mountains of the Vosges. Can you visit WWI […]

Soldiers spent long days marching and drilling, cleaning their kits, attending lectures and labouring on repairs and improvements to trench networks, camps and roads. In their spare time, soldiers wrote letters and diaries, drew sketches, read books and magazines, pursued hobbies, played cards or gambled. How did soldiers spend their time in the trenches ww1? […]

The condition first became known during World War I, when soldiers got trench foot from fighting in cold, wet conditions in trenches without the extra socks or boots to help keep their feet dry. Trench foot killed an estimated 2,000 American and 75,000 British soldiers during WWI. What happened to soldiers feet in the trenches? […]

Many thousands of small burial plots were created on or very close behind the battlefields. They were often damaged by shellfire, and in 1918 many were over-run first by the advancing enemy and later by the Allies pushing eastwards again. What happened to the bodies of dead soldiers in ww1? They were often buried where […]

It’s believed that as many as one in 10 of all fighting forces in the conflict were killed. It was also the first conflict in world history to have more deaths caused from combat, rather than from disease spread during fighting. How many soldiers died in trenches? The total number of deaths included 9.7 million […]

Many men died on their first day in the trenches as a consequence of a precisely aimed sniper’s bullet. It has been estimated that up to one third of Allied casualties on the Western Front were actually sustained in the trenches. What killed soldiers in the trenches? The majority of casualties on the Western Front […]

During World War I, trench warfare was a defensive military tactic used extensively by both sides, allowing soldiers some protection from enemy fire but also hindering troops from readily advancing and thus prolonging the war. Why was ww2 fought in trenches? Trenches (fighting holes, slit trenches, etc) were indeed used in World War II by […]

Dangerous Nighttime Activity Nighttime in the trenches was both the busiest and the most dangerous. Under cover of darkness, soldiers often climbed out of their trenches and moved into No Man’s Land, the blasted landscape separating the two armies. What were some nighttime duties of soldiers in the trenches? Night work Construction parties beavered away […]

On the Western Front, the war was fought by soldiers in trenches. Trenches were long, narrow ditches dug into the ground where soldiers lived. They were very muddy, uncomfortable and the toilets overflowed. These conditions caused some soldiers to develop a problem called trench foot. What did the trenches sound like? During a bombardment the […]

Clearing the Battlefields After 1918 the immense task of “clearing up” was carried out by the military and the civilians who were returning to their shattered communities. The landscape in the fighting lines had been smashed to pieces. Roads, woods, farms and villages were often no longer recognisable. How were the trenches cleared after ww1? […]

Each soldier usually spent eight days in the front line and four days in the reserve trench. Another four days were spent in a rest camp that was built a few miles away from the fighting. However, when the army was short of men, soldiers had to spend far longer periods at the front. Place. […]

The average annual strength of the army during the war was 210,000, of whom 5774 were killed in action, 2018 died of wounds and 13,250 died of disease, of which 8227 were killed by typhoid fever [2]. How many people died from diseases ww1? At least 2 million died from diseases and 6 million went […]

“There were fewer dogs in the trenches, but they performed more varied roles than horses did due to their cognitive skills, physicality, and trainability,” Pearson writes. “Armies used them as guard dogs and messenger dogs, as well as deploying them to lay telegraph wires and locate injured soldiers in ‘no man’s land. What were dogs […]

In terms of the first few trenches many were created behind the main forces in the first few months of the conflict and others were dug behind terrain such as hills or mountains to prevent being hit by enemy fire. Range was also a factor and given the distance between the trenches being shot was […]

The first trenches of the Western Front were dug along the Chemin des Dames and from there they would eventually stretch across Europe from the Swiss border to the North Sea. The Battle of the Aisne was fought in September 1914. Where was trench warfare first used? Trenches were common throughout the Western Front. Trench […]

Trenches in WWI were constructed with sandbags, wooden planks, woven sticks, tangled barbed wire or even just stinking mud. British soldiers standing in water in a trench. How did they dig ww1 trenches? Trenches weren’t dug in straight lines. The WWI trenches were built as a system, in a zigzag pattern with many different levels […]

Trenches were common throughout the Western Front. Long, narrow trenches dug into the ground at the front, usually by the infantry soldiers who would occupy them for weeks at a time, were designed to protect World War I troops from machine-gun fire and artillery attack from the air. What was the purpose of the trenches? […]

A well-developed trench had to be at least 2.5 m (8 ft) deep to allow men to walk upright and still be protected. There were three standard ways to dig a trench: entrenching, sapping, and tunnelling. How deep is a trench in ww2? Frontline trenches were usually about seven feet deep and six feet wide. […]