This was when people were in essentially big holes in the ground with barricades in front of them. Trench life was very hard because you watched your friends die, and had to just see them lie there when it wasnt safe to move their bodies, you were in the trenches for hours on end, and typically were attacked straight in the trenches instead of in the middle of the battlefield. There were rats that picked at human remains, and the smell of rotting flesh. "No Man's Land" was the land between two fronts, not claimed by either
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 shells. There was infection everywhere. Men were blown or shot to pieces, and their bodily fluids fed the rats. Those malicious critters were immense, crawling on and eating the decaying bodies. Some of the men had gotten a nasty disease that ate away at their feet. Trench foot, they called it. Unless we could dry our feet, our feet began to rot. Making up the majority of our diets were stale bread. With no appetite, I starved for most days. And containing no proper washrooms, we had areas in the trench where we relieved ourselves. Oh how the banging never ceased for sixty seconds! Some men were terrified of fighting, mama. Their minds went crooked, and their bodies twitched and trembled constantly. They wouldn't fight, or listen to orders. Most of them were executed, unless they had an injury that could send them home. Mama, Riley was shot in the heart yesterday. But, he died grateful. "It's an end to those shells, bombs, rats, lice and mud," he spoke his last
The Romanche Trench, also called the Romanche Furrow or Romanche Gap, is the third deepest of the major trenches of the Atlantic Ocean. It bisects the Mid-Atlantic Ridge just north of the equator at the narrowest part of the Atlantic. The trench has been formed by the actions of the Romanche Fracture Zone, a portion of which is an active transform boundary offsetting sections of the Mid-Atlantic
Trenches were dug out in the ground for protection, against machine guns and bombs, however the trenches were not made for comfort or for soldiers to live in for a long time. Most trenches were muddy and wet and soldiers had terrible living conditions which would cause disease, and eventually death. In document two, by Robert Donald, he exclaims that “I do not see why the war in this area should not go on for a hundred years.” Usually, life in the trenches meant consent fighting and battles, no side ever won because each side would encounter a bomb or some kind of causality and make their trenches deeper, and deeper. This was one cause of a stalemate, and why it was predicted that war in the trenches would continue for years and many more soldiers would die. In an outside source, a diary written by a man named Endy, talks about his life in the trenches and how their were many deaths. Although, this was not the only reason the trenches were deadly. The use of poisonous gas was also used in trenches caused many
World War I was known for its very slow-paced battle and the stage of stalemate. After advancing from Germany on France, battle turned into trench warfare. Trench Warfare is a defensive strategy in a field where the army stays in rows of trenches that were placed along the Western Front during the war. The use of trenches during the Great War was a very significant tactic during battle, by making soldiers hidden but exposed just enough to be able to attack the enemy. On a daily basis, life in the trenches was very scary and filled with horror. Death was upon the soldiers even if there was nobody attacking them. There was a continuous shell fire that would randomly take the lives of many. Some men died on their first day in the trenches, and very few were lucky to make it out unharmed. Shell fire was not the only issue in the trenches. There were plenty of diseases and infections spreading around like a wildfire. Many soldiers got infections and diseases that could not be treated such as Trench Foot or Trench Fever. Although trench warfare acts as a great defensive and offensive measure, it became very dangerous because of the many different causes of death including shell fire, diseases, and infections.
Trenches were long, narrow ditches that were dugged into the ground where soldiers lived all day and night.
Shadowy clouds hover over No Man’s Land, they were all fed up with the war, the lives it had already claimed, the unburied dead and the smell, oh my god, the smell. Life in the trenches was unbearable, cold, muddy, vermin and parasites that consume your skin for food. Every man entombed in the trenches dreaded the day they would hear the whistle, the whistle to move forward into No Man’s Land.
Almost all attacks were awful failures, with mass slaughter being the result. Some were killed outright; others would take days to die from their horrific injuries, lying alone in the mud. Technology was a main part of trench warfare. Heavy artillery gave many men shell shock. It was generally used for creeping barrages when it would fire just in front of the men creeping forwards to try and get into the enemy trenches.
The German officers driving their troops into and crosswise over France, turned too soon, due to the Schlieffen Plan, and did not encompass and cut off Paris. They were spotted by a non military personnel flying a 1909 Bleriot XI, who reported the attack yet was overlooked by the military on the grounds that all things considered, it was by somebody in one of those novel planes. When the French rang their troops, the Germans were inside of miles of Paris. The Germans were compelled to either delve in or retreat. They dove in. Starting there on, the war turned into a stagnant mess. The Germans suspected that they could find the French resting at the switch and make a short war of it. The French had not won a war in over a century, it ought to have been a simple
In World War One, on the Western Front, soldiers served and lived in trenches for days, weeks or even months on end. Alone with the daily essentials needing to be done in these small, enclosed spaces, men also had to work hard in the mud and filth, sometimes for hours without rest, all the while being prepared for attacks or trench raids at any moment. This was what life was like for hundreds of thousands of soldiers during the period of World War One. This lifestyle throughout the First World War had an enormous effect on the European soldiers, both physically and mentally.
“It was dirty that’s for sure. The rats ate at your toes and the smell was horrible.”
The type of warfare used WW2 or World War 2 had different types of battles fought in different ways; these included guerilla (people moving and attacking in small fast moving forces, in WW2 there were Soviet guerilla forces who were behind the German line cause mayhem, blowing up anything that the Germans could use), trench (WW2 had used trench warfare to invade or defend countries/ a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other), naval (war at sea, using ships, subs/ engagement in or activities involved in a war fought at sea), air (war in the sky, planes/ ability to disable an opponent's military using strategic strikes from manned planes), blitzkrieg (rush them, the Germans used this to invade other countries
Life in the trenches did not consist of constant action or fighting it was usually
The battlefield was called ‘No-Man’s-Land’ because no man ever made it out. The trenches were also disgusting. The trenches were full of mud, disease, and death. More than 200, 000 men died during the war and a third of those deaths were caused by disease. The horrible conditions were exemplified in both Indiana Jones and War Horse, both of these movies depict horrible deaths. In the movie War Horse Joey gets tangled in the barb wire and they have to cut him free. Once Joey gets to a doctor they tell the guy taking care of his that he has tetanus, which means any soldier who gets cut by the barb wire was going to get tetanus. It makes me sick thinking about what these soldiers had to go through when they were just trying to help and save other
The place in between yours and enemy trenches is called no mans land. There was a fungal infection similar to Athlete's Foot that was called Trench foot and it was a common case. Soldiers in trenches were almost always under constant bombardment from artillery and a mental illness was discovered and was called Shell Shock but later renamed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Many people were shoot because military officers thought they were trying to get out of the war. People who actually tried to get out of the war were called deserters. You defended in your trench because it gave you cover. When you attacked you had to do “go over the top” which meant you had to climb out of the safety of the trench into no mans land to almost certainly get shot of exploded or shredded by shrapnel. While the horrors of enemy gunfire were real the reality of trench life was worse.
World War 1 is perhaps best known for being a war fought in trenches, ditches dug out of the ground to give troops protection from enemy artillery and machine-gun fire. The trenches spread from the East to the West. By the end of 1914, trenches stretched all along the 475 miles front between the Swiss border and the Channel coast.