re: 98 Years Ago Today: Battle Of Belleau Wood Begins

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Not to minimize the horror at all, but they learned early to rotate units in and out of the front lines, so that they never spent very long under fire at any one time. IIRC the goal was no more than 48 hours at any one stretch, but I could be wrong about that. And by the end of the war the forward trenches were only manned by observation posts and reinforced only in the event of imminent attack.

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Read the book 'Storm of Steel' by Ernst Junger.
It was insanity.
Them baws were getting shelled in the front lines, rear lines, medical stations, villages, swamps... it was nonstop. Which explains the vast harvest of iron and steel that keeps manifesting year in an year out on those fields and why many areas have been deemed not safe for living and are blocked off from humans , lest you step on unexploded ordinance