Word: trenches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Amann of the French Military Mission lectured to members of the advanced course last night on the subject of trench organization and the principles of flanking fire as developed during the last three and a half years. The value of machine guns and automatic rifles placed in salients, with the intervening stretches of the trench only very lightly manned, was pointed out and explained in detail. Such a system of defense although requiring fewer men in the first line trench is by far the most effective, Captain Amann asserted...
...sure his victory may not be the capture of a trench, but perchance this nation may be greater for his patience...
targets. An elaborate course in bayonet work was also inaugurated as the officers had received little or no instruction in the manual now in general use on the Western Front. A system of trenches patterned after those at Fresh Pond was outlined and trench duties including the mechanism of relief's were explained fully. Much time was present, too, in the organization of French platoons and in drilling them in the various formations used in the regimental exercises at Barre...
Lectured on Trench Warfare...
...evening, members of the "mission" gave a series of lectures on trench warfare, based on the book by Cok Azan, treating the various phases of the subject. Patterson, who had received training in the Yale Battery at New Haven, spoke on the uses and importance of modern artillery...