Trenches were long, narrow ditches dug into the ground where soldiers lived. They werevery muddy, uncomfortable and the toilets overflowed. These conditions caused some soldiers to develop medical problems such as trench foot. Is 1917 a true story? 1917 issomething of a true story, loosely based...
Trench Foot and Trench Rats during WW1 In Flanders and France trenches were dug in land that was often at or near to sea level and where the water table was just beneath the soil surface. After a couple of feet of digging the soldiers inevitably hit water and the trenches became flooded...
The Field Monitor was essentially a huge version of the Holt Steam Wheeled Tank, with four 20 foot tall wheels. Unlike the Holt Steam Wheeled Tank, the Field Monitor did not have a steering wheel in the rear, instead it had two of the four 20 foot wheels. Each wheel had...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Dictionary Acronyms Wikipedia </>embed</> high-angle gun mortar howitzer trench mor... noun Synonyms for trench mortar nouna muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevati...
Rain and bad weather would flood the trenches making them boggy, muddy, and could even block weapons and make it hard to move in battle. Sustained exposure to the wet, muddy conditions could cause Trench Foot, which sometimes would result in the foot being amputated. Cold weather was ...
Ww1 Week 1 Trench Analysis It was poorly constructed, polluted with human excrement and contained pools of water. Buried about a foot deep, hundreds of Germans and French lied in the trench since last October. Mud was my best friend, and sleep was interrupted by the booming of German ...
被引量: 1发表: 2004年 1479Trench Foot: A Rare and Unusual Presentation of a World War I Disease serious disorder of the lower limb, involving damage to the skin, nerves, and muscle, previously described in World War I soldiers during trench warfare... R Dbeis,B Rymer,C Mills - 《Brit...
“men at arms”, fighting on foot or horseback as needed, and supported by a proportionately very large number of archers; 3, 4 or more to each man at arms. These would also serve as light cavalry. In the 100 years war, the english had used this organization to great effect, ...
New Technology in the Air Who are famous WW1 pilots? Famous pilots (“Ace”): Baron von Richthofen from Germany, called “the Red Baron” 80 air combat victories 2.Roy Brown (Canadian) shot down the Red Baron, allegedly 3. Billy Bishop – Canada’s top Ace (72 enemy planes down) &...