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Mouse-holing is a tactic used in urban warfare in which soldiers create access to adjoining rooms or buildings by blasting or tunneling through a wall. The tactic is used to avoid open streets since advancing infantry , caught in enfilade , are easily targeted by machine-gun and sniper fire.
During the Battle of Ortona, the Canadian Army developed a tactic known as "mouse-holing", which involved using anti-tank weapons to blast holes through walls of adjacent buildings, allowing the assaulting forces to advance through the hole into the adjacent space.
Over the course of the battle, Canadian forces developed innovative "mouse-holing" tactics, moving between houses to avoid German sniper fire in the open streets. [70] German counterattacks on 24 and 26 December caused significant casualties to Canadian forces in the town. [69]
JGSDF soldiers practice MOUT tactics in the Ojojibara Maneuver Area of Sendai, Japan during an exercise in 2004. Historically, the United States Armed Forces has referred to urban warfare as UO (urban operations), [5] but this term has been largely replaced with MOUT (military operations in urban terrain).
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The house-to-house fighting was vicious and the Canadians made use of a tactic that had previously infrequently been used: "mouse-holing". This tactic involved using weapons such as the PIAT or cumbersome Teller anti-tank mines to create a large aperture in the wall of a building, as houses within Ortona shared adjoining walls.