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Does anyone know much about this system? I just saw a diagram about it recently and if you develop parfox style trenches (trenches with a mound a dirt directly in front of the trench, making direct fire from the front ineffective, atleast from small arms), in a one up two back scheme it allows for excellent interlocking arcs between trenches.
I was never really shown anything like this in training and my typical conception of a battle trench has the spoilage distributed, and the defensive position as a whole usually done with 2 up and 1 back. I also did a quick check of some of our doctrine and found little on it. The most I could find was a single line in section and platoon in battle reference "creating a dirt parapet to place some crew served weapons in defilade."
Does anyone have any experience with this style of trench and position? What are the pros and cons? I would imagine detection of the position is much easier.
Thanks.
I was never really shown anything like this in training and my typical conception of a battle trench has the spoilage distributed, and the defensive position as a whole usually done with 2 up and 1 back. I also did a quick check of some of our doctrine and found little on it. The most I could find was a single line in section and platoon in battle reference "creating a dirt parapet to place some crew served weapons in defilade."
Does anyone have any experience with this style of trench and position? What are the pros and cons? I would imagine detection of the position is much easier.
Thanks.