SLIT TRENCH – FIGHTING POSITION – OVERHEAD COVER – CAMOUFLAGED
SLIT TRENCHES
Small set of SLIT TRENCHES, uncovered, overhead cover and camouflage net versions, they work excellently on terrain with forested areas and grass.
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"Slit trenches deserve a paragraph all to themselves. A few days after we landed, we spent literally a whole day at Tabarka being dive-bombed and machine-gunned from the air. This went on intermittently all the following week at Djebel Abiod, plus more than enough shelling. Since then, the men have dug slit trenches automatically, even if they arrive at a place soaking wet at three in the morning. Their trenches are a full 5 feet deep, too. Anyone will tell you tales of miraculous escapes due to slit trenches—shells landing a couple of feet away without hurting the bloke inside, and so on. I don’t think you could ever shell our battalion out of a position—if only because we know we are safer in slit trenches than out of them."
-unnamed British platoon commander, writing home to a friend, discussing the importance of the simple slit trench.
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