In my notes they only talk about how trenches were like death traps, full of death bodies, rat, and caused trench mouth/foot!. I want to know the other side of it, if there is another side!.!.!.
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Position:Home>History> How were trenches successful in WW1?Question: How were trenches successful in WW1!? In my notes they only talk about how trenches were like death traps, full of death bodies, rat, and caused trench mouth/foot!. I want to know the other side of it, if there is another side!.!.!.
Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Trenches were rarely used in WWII!. It's simple really!. Machine gun and rifle bullets cannot get you below ground!. Of course plunging fire from mortars and artillery is still a problem, but in WWI - it was the stand up charges across open ground that led to slaughter by machine gun and artillery fire in concert!. Even artillery has limited effect on men below ground unless they get a direct hit!. Most of the shrapnel from an artillery shell goes up after impact!. That's why dropping flat helped soldiers when artillery was coming in!. In WWII the greatly expanded role of air power made trenches impractical!. Putting armies in trenches would make them very vulnerable to strafing and bombing from the air in WWII!. Air power was in its infant stage in WWI!.Www@QuestionHome@Com In a tactical, short term, sense the trenches enabled a relatively small force to hold off much larger attacking forces for the obvious reasons; you were protected and fighting from a protected position while your enemy was out in the open!. In the longer term though, they just created a stalemate that prolonged the war and created the conditions you refer to!. If that weren't bad enough, the generals, whose were stuck in an earlier century, insisted on repeatedly ordering massed attacks into the face of an entrenched enemy with 20th century weapons!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Of course they were good for not getting your head blown off! The soldiers got injured when they left (went over the top), and faced the enemy!. They would have stopped using them if they hadnt worked!. also they were used in WWII!.so must be OKWww@QuestionHome@Com They did make it hard for the enemy to advance, and they also tended to keep the fighting confined to a small area, which kept civilians from getting involved too much!. Having said that, there wasn't a lot of good to them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com well they were good at stopping the enemy from advancing so ppl built trenches to fight trenches, if u didnt have a trench u diedWww@QuestionHome@Com modern guns/machine guns + no tanks + trenches = stalemate!. there was no good sideWww@QuestionHome@Com Spreed, and the Gas!?Www@QuestionHome@Com |