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The French began to develop trench codes in early 1916. They started out as telephone codes, implemented at the request of a general whose forces had suffered devastating artillery bombardments due to indiscretions in telephone conversations between his men. The original telephone code featured a small set of two-letter codewords that were ...
Unlike the Germans the French lacked portable mortars like the 7.58 cm Minenwerfer, 17 cm mittlerer Minenwerfer or 25 cm schwere Minenwerfer. The mortars that the French did have the Obusier de 155 mm C modèle 1881 and Mortier de 220 mm modèle 1880 were siege artillery designed to arm France's forts that were much heavier than their opponents ...
By comparison, a French Mortier de 58 mm type 2 weighed 226 kg (498 lb) and could deliver a projectile that weighed between 18–35 kg (40–77 lb). While the British Stokes mortar could deliver a 4.84 kg (10 lb 11 oz) projectile it had a better rate of fire and only weighed 47.17 kg (100 lb) versus the 215 kg (474 lb) for the mle 1915.
With the rise of easily-intercepted wireless telegraphy, codes and ciphers were used extensively in World War I. The decoding by British Naval intelligence of the Zimmermann telegram helped bring the United States into the war. Trench codes were used by field armies of most of the combatants (Americans, British, French, German) in World War I. [1]
French infantry pushing through enemy barbed wire, 1915. During World War I, France was one of the Triple Entente powers allied against the Central Powers.Although fighting occurred worldwide, the bulk of the French Army's operations occurred in Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Alsace-Lorraine along what came to be known as the Western Front, which consisted mainly of trench warfare.
The French used a very wide range of tanks, including many unique types. France was the second largest tank producer in the world, behind the Soviet Union (see French armoured fighting vehicle production during World War II). French cavalry tank designs saw attempts to balance the needs of firepower, protection and mobility. They also fielded a ...
The Mortier de 150 mm T Modèle 1917 Fabry was the standard French heavy trench mortar of World War I. It remained in service through 1940, with some 1,159 available during the Phony War . The tube was supported by two recoil-recuperators in a flask-rocker assembly that was mounted on a platform with six fixed spades.
The 240 mm trench mortar, or Mortier de 240 mm, was a large calibre mortar of World War I. An original French design, it was developed by Batignolles Company of Paris and introduced in 1915. Service