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Trench Warfare

Trench Warfare. French Trenches on the Meuse River. “You must dig in; it’s the only way of staying out of sight and cutting losses.” – General Ferdinand Foch (France). Water-filled trench at Passchendaele. Aerial view of trench network near Villecey.

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Trench Warfare

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  1. Trench Warfare

  2. French Trenches on the Meuse River “You must dig in; it’s the only way of staying out of sight and cutting losses.” – General Ferdinand Foch (France)

  3. Water-filled trench at Passchendaele Aerial view of trench network near Villecey

  4. The trench system of the Western Front stretched for 400 miles from the North Sea on the coast of Belgium to the Alps of Switzerland. Animated Map of the Western Front

  5. “See that little stream – we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it – a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly, backward a few inches a day. Leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs.” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Tender is the Night”

  6. No Man’s Land

  7. Europe's Stalemate

  8. Live and Let Live

  9. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate Twenty-five man team moving heavy gun

  10. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate Dummy French 240mm gun made of paper

  11. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate Austrian Skoda 305mm howitzer

  12. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate Krupp railroad gun

  13. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate British tank breaking through barbed wire

  14. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate British tank crossing a trench

  15. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate Lewis light machine gun team

  16. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate Vickers machine gun

  17. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate French poison gas dispenser

  18. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate Gas shells exploding in No Man's Land

  19. Gas masks for man and horse demonstrated by American soldier British soldier wearing gas mask New Weapons to Break the Stalemate

  20. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate French grenade-launching crossbow

  21. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate French flamethrowers

  22. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate British field phone German telescoping searchlight

  23. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate French soldiers constructing barbed wire entanglements outside of Salonika

  24. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate US electric generator

  25. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate French wire-cutting automobile

  26. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate Salmson observation plane going over German lines under escort

  27. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate Reconnaissance camera attached to the side of a British plane

  28. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate Handley-Page bomber

  29. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate German observation balloon leaving its hangar at Metz

  30. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate Albatross D (German)

  31. New Weapons to Break the Stalemate Australian anti-aircraft gun position

  32. Concept Map of New Technology Trench System Stalemate New Technology Lead to Lead to

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