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The Trouble with Trench Guns. By Tom Laemlein - Tuesday, January 23, 2018. Tom Laemlein trench guns world war II world war I military guns combat guns winchester Model of 1917 Trench Shotgun.
The First World War, from 1914 to 1918, was trench warfare,
while the Second World War, from 1939 to 1945 was not. During WW2,
the fighting was in the open countryside, with mobility and lots of
movement. Soldiers only 'dug in' below ground level when they
stopped for the night, to give themselves protection from artillery
or mortar rounds. By being below ground level, they were protected
against anything except a direct hit on their small hole in the
ground. A trench is a long narrow linear excavation that could run
for miles, and be occupied by hundreds of men. Trench warfare died
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in ww2 with the early success of the Germans new form of mobile and
combined arms(Air and Ground) warfare. Fixed positions were simply
bypassed or attacked from the rear or the air by
paratroopers/glidertroops. Limited trenches were used during the
Italion campaign when the Germans used trenches and fighting
positions to tie in fortified positions along the Gustav Line
(Monte Cassino). The weather was terribly cold and men ,from both
sides, were found frozen to death in their fighting positions. As
in ww1 disease was rampant with the flooding of the lower area and
typhoid was rampant with those who weren't vaccinated. Add to this
a lack of clean drinking water or proper sanitation, rats, lice,
filthy uniforms and living conditions. These conditions affected
men on both sides. One only has to feel the North Atlantic Wind
coming across the Atlantic ocean in the winter time along the
Belgium and French Coast to imagine the severity of the cold and
storms in the trenches along the Atlantic Wall. Trenches
where STILL used in the WORLD WAR 2 in the Italian Invasion of
Greece and in The Siege of Moscow and Stalingrad what happened is
that some people think Western Allies only fought the World War
2.
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