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The return of mobile warfare in World War II reduced the emphasis of trench warfare, as defenders commonly lacked the time to build up such battlefield defences before they were forced to redeploy, due to the more rapidly-changing strategic situation. But trench systems were still effective, wherever mobility was limited, the front lines were ...
German stormtroopers haul a cut-down Russian 76.2mm M1902 field gun across no man's land. Prevailing tactics in World War I championed personal marksmanship with the full-length bolt-action rifle, the standard issue firearm for infantry on all sides of the war. However, when fighting in trenches, the narrow, claustrophobic passages made full ...
The British Army pursued a doctrine of integrating new technologies and updating old ones to find advantages in trench warfare. [34] At the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, March 1915, a well-planned British attack on German trenches, coordinated with short but effective artillery bombardment, achieved a local breakthrough. Though ammunition shortages ...
A German soldier with an MP 18 in Northern France, 1918. The MP 18 was introduced during the final stages of World War I in 1918. Contrary to popular belief, there is no concrete evidence that the Bergmann MP 18/I reached the front lines in early 1918 or that submachine guns were employed by German Sturmtruppen during the Spring Offensive.
A World War II hexagonal pillbox on the bank of the Mells River at Lullington, Somerset, England A British mini-pillbox in Jerusalem. A pillbox is a type of blockhouse, or concrete dug-in guard-post, often camouflaged, normally equipped with loopholes through which defenders can fire weapons.
In the last years of World War I, Stoßtruppen ("shock troopers" or "shove troopers") were trained to use infiltration tactics – part of the Germans' improved method of attack on enemy trench warfare. [1] The German Empire entered the war certain that the conflict would be won in the course of great military campaigns, thus relegating results ...
During the First World War Russia used both French 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) Decauville and 750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) gauge systems. More than 2,000 km (1,243 mi) of narrow gauge trench railways were built during the war. Kolomna Locomotive Works built 0-6-0T locomotives (I, N, R, T series). 70 locomotives were purchased from ALCO.
Dragon's teeth near Aachen, Germany, part of the Siegfried Line. Dragon's teeth are pyramidal anti-tank obstacles of reinforced concrete first used during the Second World War to impede the movement of tanks and mechanised infantry. The idea was to slow down and channel tanks into killing zones where they could easily be disposed of by anti ...