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Trench Warfare Vocab
Chapter 23
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Duckboards | boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground |
| Rats | a long-tailed rodents distinguished from the mouse by being larger |
| No man’s land | an area between opposing armies, over which no control has been established |
| Infantry | soldiers or military units that fight on foot, in modern times typically with rifles, machine guns, grenades, mortars, etc., as weapons |
| Gas Mask | a mask like device attached to a component that filters the air inhaled by the wearer through charcoal and chemicals to protect the face and lungs against noxious gases and fumes |
| Dead in the middle | where the bodies of the fallen soldiers are lying the middle of the trench |
| Support troops | the second line of soldiers;the highest rankings fought there |
| Reinforcement | the act of reinforcing or strengthening |
| Western front | the fighting zone in France and Flanders, where the British, French, Belgian and the American armies faced Germany |