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A practical manual detailing organization and tactics for trench warfare, covering company structure and specialists, formations, trench construction and sector layout, daily duties including sentries and reliefs, defense measures like wire and counterattacks, offensive planning and assault organization, artillery coordination, reconnaissance and communications, and equipment use; emphasizes principles, examples, and drill procedures to prepare units for both holding and attacking fortified positions.

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Title: Tactics and duties for trench fighting

Author: Georges Etienne Bertrand

Oscar N. Solbert

Release date: April 20, 2019 [eBook #59317]

Language: English

Credits: E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing, Brian Coe, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)

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(http://www.pgdp.net)
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Internet Archive
(https://archive.org)

 

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Tactics and Duties
for
Trench Fighting

By
Georges Bertrand
Capitaine, Chasseurs Alpins, de l’Armée de France
and
Oscar N. Solbert
Major, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A.
With Diagrams
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1918
Copyright, 1918
BY
OSCAR N. SOLBERT
The Knickerbocker Press, New York