Over wire entanglements to get at the enemy
- Title
- Over wire entanglements to get at the enemy
- LC Subject
- Armed Forces Soldiers
- Description
- In actual war the enemy is not lined up in an open space as in the picture just shown, but all kinds of obstacles have to be overcome to reach him. So it is necessary to practice climbing over real and imaginary barbed wire entanglements. The line of posts here represents such obstructions. Although this is strenuous exercise it is a kindergarten game compared with the difficulties they will encounter later. Of course this practice is essential for all infantry work and not especially for bayonet practice, as a man never can tell whether it will be his cartridges or his bayonet that he will need to use when he has crossed the wire entanglements and crater holes of No-man’s Land to beard the enemy in his trench.
- Work Type
- lantern slides
- Date
- 1900/1940
- Identifier
- P217:01:019
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Local Collection Name
- Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, 1900-1940 (P 217)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Primary Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Is Part Of
- Set 1 - Making the American Army
- Institution
- Oregon State University
