No Man's Land was a place both armies would used to patrol, repair, or add barbed wire to their front lines.Trench warfare had a massive impact on soldiers as it caused huge amounts of casualties on the battlefield and also caused health problems because the battlefield was infested with rats and lice. Trench warfare is when holes are built into the ground and sandbags are placed around the holes as a protective barrier. When using trench warfare, the soldiers would shoot from the holes they had built in front. Trench warfare is no longer a use to the military because most battles are now fought in either the air or at sea.
Trench warfare had a massive impact on the soldiers as it caused huge amounts of casualties and health problems on the battlefield. “It was quite crowded and uncomfortable for the soldiers who were fighting as it would have been dirty with vermin, poo, …show more content…
Trenches made armies re-think their invasive strategies and made heavy artillery such as machine guns and shells very effective. Hand grenades, poison gas and bombs were extremely effective since all the numbers of enemies. In the early autumn of 1914, a line of opposing trenches were dug in Flanders that set a low bar for the lives of infantrymen for the better part of five years. The trenches, relativity open to inclement weather conditions, housed and fed the opposing armies sometimes as little as 100 yards apart separated by belts of barbed wire that dotted an uninhabited no-man’s land. Initially, there was a wire shortage. Some troops “requisitioned” agricultural wire from surrounding villages. Often that wire was not barbed. The home fronts rapidly addressed the shortage and hundreds of square miles were layered with new, heavily barbed wire. At first, the wire belts were laid every 5 to 10 yards, and then, later, even more dense concentrations were constructed. The British rule of thumb was to lay wire 9 meters
Trench warfare had a massive impact on the soldiers as it caused huge amounts of casualties and health problems on the battlefield. “It was quite crowded and uncomfortable for the soldiers who were fighting as it would have been dirty with vermin, poo, …show more content…
Trenches made armies re-think their invasive strategies and made heavy artillery such as machine guns and shells very effective. Hand grenades, poison gas and bombs were extremely effective since all the numbers of enemies. In the early autumn of 1914, a line of opposing trenches were dug in Flanders that set a low bar for the lives of infantrymen for the better part of five years. The trenches, relativity open to inclement weather conditions, housed and fed the opposing armies sometimes as little as 100 yards apart separated by belts of barbed wire that dotted an uninhabited no-man’s land. Initially, there was a wire shortage. Some troops “requisitioned” agricultural wire from surrounding villages. Often that wire was not barbed. The home fronts rapidly addressed the shortage and hundreds of square miles were layered with new, heavily barbed wire. At first, the wire belts were laid every 5 to 10 yards, and then, later, even more dense concentrations were constructed. The British rule of thumb was to lay wire 9 meters