Posted by: TheHawk62
Posted by: Captain Richards
I imagine World War I would have been pretty nasty. Imagine spending all day inside of an extremely narrow, claustrophobic, hot yet most trench in the dirt--with relentless gunshots and artillery fire going off over your head, up to your knees in mud and water, developing trench foot. And even worse, knowing that it is only a matter of time before you will have to charge across "No-Man's Land" where you most likely will be mowed down by automatic fire and/or artillery. And then if you actually do make it across--or the enemy makes it across to your side--then you have to fight them up close and personal inside of the already uncomfortable, claustrophobic trench in brutal hand-to-hand combat.
Not to mention that the tenches were filled, sometimes up to the waste, with urine, dirty water and mud. The smeel was atrocious aswell, with rotting corpes, rodents and vermin and urine.
Yup, definitely one of the worst.
not to mention the size of those rodents and vermin. thr rats were the size of cats. the soldiers also suffered from extreme boredom, so not only were the living in these horrible conditions, but they couldn't even do anything in the time before they go over the top to get their morale up.