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“You must dig in; it’s the only way of staying out of sight and cutting losses.” – General Ferdinand Foch (France) French Trenches on the Meuse River.

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2 “You must dig in; it’s the only way of staying out of sight and cutting losses.” – General Ferdinand Foch (France) French Trenches on the Meuse River

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5 Aerial view of trench network near Villecey Water-filled trench at Passchendaele

6 The trench system of the Western Front stretched for 400 miles from the North Sea on the coast of Belgium to the Alps of Switzerland. Animated Map of the Western Front

7 “See that little stream – we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it – a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly, backward a few inches a day. Leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs.” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Tender is the Night”

8 No Man’s Land

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11 Twenty-five man team moving heavy gun

12 Dummy French 240mm gun made of paper

13 Austrian Skoda 305mm howitzer

14 Krupp railroad gun

15 British tank breaking through barbed wire

16 British tank crossing a trench

17 Lewis light machine gun team

18 Vickers machine gun

19 French poison gas dispenser

20 Gas shells exploding in No Man's Land

21 British soldier wearing gas mask Gas masks for man and horse demonstrated by American soldier

22 French grenade-launching crossbow

23 French flamethrowers

24 British field phoneGerman telescoping searchlight

25 French soldiers constructing barbed wire entanglements outside of Salonika

26 US electric generator

27 French wire-cutting automobile

28 Salmson observation plane going over German lines under escort

29 Reconnaissance camera attached to the side of a British plane

30 Handley-Page bomber

31 German observation balloon leaving its hangar at Metz

32 Albatross D (German)

33 Australian anti-aircraft gun position

34 Concept Map of New Technology Trench System New Technology Lead to Stalemate Lead to

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