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Like the trench system itself, these routines changed ... This “elastic” defense, which resulted in the formation of the Hindenburg Line, was quite remarkable. Unlike the Allies’ rigid ...
The surprise attack on the Hindenburg Line, delivered by General Sir Julian ... West Riding Territorials captured Havriacourt and the German trench system north of the village, while Ulster ...
This was the much-vaunted Hindenburg ... in the trenches at Messines, the 46th Midland Division was moved to the Ypres Salient – that bulge of British-held territory in the German line.
When it comes to the Winchester Model 1897 “Trench Gun” in World War I ... fodder for the autumn offensive against the Hindenburg Line. General Pershing was adamant in his desire that American ...
After a series of assaults on the Hindenburg line, the vast system of German trenches, many remember excitement as they advanced so far they lost contact with their command. But there were pockets ...
Both moves were part of Hindenburg and Ludendorff ... the Somme to the new heavily fortified defensive line (in fact a whole network of trenches and bunkers) would shorten the front by 25 ...
THE Hindenburg line seemed for so long to be an unbreakable ... the Germans fell back to construct the trench system to shorten their front line, allowing them to use fewer men to hold it.
Right before the events of the movie, the Germans constructed a whole secondary series of defensive trenches behind the Salient known as the Hindenburg Line, after one of their top commanders.
Carl Chinn recounts the amazing storming of the Hindenburg Line by the 137th Staffordshire Brigade which led to the end of the war. ...