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Life in the trenches part Iv – Over the top

Trench Warfare Strategies and Weapons. Life in the trenches part Iv – Over the top. Small patrols were often sent to no mans land usually at night They would try to crawl on their stomachs to watch the enemies Normal to blacken their face with grease paint or burnt cork

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Life in the trenches part Iv – Over the top

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  1. Trench Warfare Strategies and Weapons Life in the trenches part Iv – Over the top

  2. Small patrols were often sent to no mans land usually at night • They would try to crawl on their stomachs to watch the enemies • Normal to blacken their face with grease paint or burnt cork • Raiding party usually consists of thirty men Patrols and Raids

  3. Attacks usually consist of approximately 16,000 men They were usually used for breaking the enemy’s front line Offensives were much bigger than attacks and was considered a slaughter An offensive is there to hold the enemy line when they have just advanced from an attack Attacks and offensive

  4. When patrols went out to get information from enemies the enemies would use a light rocket that produced a bright light. During this moment the enemy would kill the patrols In WWI Fritz Haber who was a chemist experimented with chlorine gases to help the Germans. When this gas was used in warfare soldiers described it as a yellow-green gas that burned their throat. Light Flares and Chlorine Gas

  5. Each military would employ miners to make tunnels leading under enemy trench across no mans land They would place bombs in the tunnel and wait for it to destroy the enemies trench Normally the soldiers in the front line of the trench were killed by snipers. Snipers were used to go out to no mans land and use Tunneling and snipers

  6. Germans tried flamethrowers first in 1914 by using pressured air forces through a nozzle that ignites from a small charge Seen as it was difficult to move around, it had to be manned by two men and it only burned for 40 seconds at a time Germans experimented with mustard gas first a little later in the war It was very affective at first until a strong wind came by Flamethrowers and Mustard gas

  7. Despite of all of the Germans’ Strategies, the British were actually the first ones to break the stalemate loop The first tank was created much later in the war used as a tool to travel over no mans land The engines tend to break down a lot causing some tanks to stop before the war The tanks were not equipped with weapons Tanks

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