In The Trenches

Volume 1: Issue 4


Artillery

The boom of cannons is what made a soldier quiver in ww1, the heavy howitzers would destroy the battlefield and make it filled with crater holes. The artillery emplacements were the farthest back trench in the network of trenches, making them out of range for the enemies cannons. Soon, after the battle of Ypres the Howitzers would fire gas shells as well like the infamous mustard gas. Artillery was also fired before a large attack, which was a bad idea because the enemy could hide in their dugout and then when the shelling was over they would kill the attacking infantry trying to get threw the mangled battlefield. All in all the Artillery piece was just another thing to add the the horrors of World War 1.