Trenches:
Trenches were built for the protection of soldiers. Each side of the war had trenches for their soldier's protection. Trench life was terrrible. When the enemy trough a grenade or mortars in the trench it made craters, and when it rained it flooded the craters in the trenches. Soldiers got an illness called trench foot. they got it from running around in the water logged craters. Trench foot was like athletes foot but way worse. When there was a new recruit in the trenches all he would be the smell. The smell was caused from shallow graves, men who havent bathed in weeks, overflowing cess pits, and creosol. The trenches also had a lot of nasty things crawling around them too. For example: bugs, snakes, tons of rats, and lice just to name a few. The rats in the trenches were everywhere. there were literally millions of the. The rats would run around the trenches and eat the decomposing eyes and liver of a corpse and grow to the size of a cat. Many soldiers believed that the rats had a "sixth sense" because they always seemed to dissapear minutes before an attack. Soldiers tried killiong the rats using pretty much anything they could find, but they were fighting an uphill battle battle because 1 bair of rats can make 900 babies in on year. Lice were another major problem. there were lice everywhere and spread trench fever. Trench fever is a disease that caused severe pain and was followed by a fever. to get rid of the lice the soldiers tried everything. Even delousing and washing their clothes lice eggs would slip into the stitching in the clothes and survive.
http://hubpages.com/hub/World_War_1_Trench_Warfare
Seriously, I could wrie an entire blog about the trenches, but I'm now done.
Allied Weapons:
The trench club was used as a self defence/close quarters combat weapon.
the bayonnet was about a meter long and was attched to a rifle and germans, when in fear, would charge and try to stap troops with it.
The Lee Enfield rifle was the main rifle of WW1. It had extree range and was made in 1907.
The Maxim Machine Gun was the first self powered machine gun. and the Britishs' Vickers machine gun is based of the design of this gun.
http://www.sachem.edu/schools/seneca/socialstudies/guttman/per7/weapons/page2.html
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