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The return of mobile warfare in World War II reduced the emphasis of trench warfare, as defenders commonly lacked the time to build up such battlefield defences before they were forced to redeploy, due to the more rapidly-changing strategic situation. But trench systems were still effective, wherever mobility was limited, the front lines were ...
Anti-tank trenches were used on the western front during World War I, and in the Pacific, Europe, and Russia in World War II. Anti-tank mines are the most common anti-tank obstacles. For implementation of various anti-tank obstacles: For British anti-tank obstacles, see: British anti-invasion preparations of World War II#Lines and islands.
In addition to receiving compensation, farmers whose land was used to build the structures were paid after the war to fill in ditches and trenches and to demolish pillboxes. Today, hardly anything remains of the anti-tank ditches, but at the time they must have been the most conspicuous of all the fortifications.
Russian anti-tank obstacles near the horizon, Kherson Oblast, May 2022. Dragon's teeth on the left, Czech hedgehogs on the right In Belgorod Oblast, defensive lines of dragon's teeth were constructed in October 2022 under the supervision of the Wagner Group along the Russia–Ukraine border, intended as a second line of defense alongside trenches and a trained militia in the event the ...
Matilda tanks at Tobruk. Tanks first appeared on the battlefield as a solution to trench warfare.They were large, heavy, slow moving vehicles capable of driving right over the top of enemy trenches; thereby eliminating the need to send soldiers "over the top" only to be blasted to pieces by enemies.
Anti-tank trenches, also called anti-tank ditches, are ditches dug into and around fortified positions to hold up the advance of enemy tanks. [1] [2] Anti-tank ditches were first used in World War I by Germany in an effort to protect their trenches against the newly developed British and French tanks. An anti-tank ditch has to be wide enough ...
An Indian Wehrmacht volunteer in a Tobruk DFP along the Atlantic Wall, 1944. During the fighting in North Africa (1942–43), U.S. forces employed the shell scrape.This was a very shallow excavation allowing one soldier to lie horizontally while shielding his body from nearby shell bursts and small arms fire.
A World War II hexagonal pillbox on the bank of the Mells River at Lullington, Somerset, England A British mini-pillbox in Jerusalem. A pillbox is a type of blockhouse, or concrete dug-in guard-post, often camouflaged, normally equipped with loopholes through which defenders can fire weapons.