Tactics and duties for trench fighting
by Oscar N. Solbert Georges Etienne Bertrand
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- Tactics and Duties for Trench Fighting
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I ORGANIZATION OF THE COMPANY FOR BATTLE FORMATIONS
- I. Specialists
- Organization of a Typical Company
- II. Use of Specialists
- In the Defensive
- In the Offensive
- III. Formations for Maneuvering this Resultant Company of Specialists
- (Formation of the Platoon)
- Company Drill Regulations Adopted at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, R.O.T.C., in Lieu of No Existing Official Regulations
- CHAPTER II DEVELOPMENT OF A POSITION FROM AN OPEN WARFARE BATTLE
- Successive Phases of the Organization
- Principles of the Organization
- Elements of the Organization
- CHAPTER III SECTOR AND TRENCH DUTIES
- I. Plan of Defense
- Details of Trench Duty
- Use of Infantry and Artillery Weapons, and Liaison
- Artillery Support in a Sector
- Instructions for Sentinel, Watcher, and Observer
- CHAPTER IV THE RELIEF
- I. Definitions and Principles
- II. Preliminary Dispositions for the Relief
- Relief Orders
- III. Movement of the Relief
- IV. Occupation of the Position
- CHAPTER V DEFENSE OF A POSITION
- Different Kinds of Hostile Attacks
- Surprise Attacks
- Attack in Force
- I. During the Preparation of the Hostile Attack
- II. Defense of the First Line during a Hostile Attack
- III. Fighting in the Interior of the Position
- CHAPTER VI ATTACK OF A POSITION
- I. Preparation of the Attack
- Artillery Preparation
- II. The Assault
- Formations for the Assault
- Formation of an Assaulting Battalion
- III. Fighting in the Interior of the
- CHAPTER VII TRENCH ORDERS
- I. Plan of Attack (Issued several days before attack)
- II. Order for the Attack (Issued night before attack is to be made)
- III. Preliminary Order for a Relief (Issued night before reconnaissance; i. e. 24 to 36 hours before relief)
- IV. Order for the March of the Relief (Issued after reconnaissance and several hours before relief starts)
- V. Plan of Defense
- VI. A Raid
- I. Plan of Attack
- II. Order for the Attack
- III. Preliminary Order for a Relief Order for the Occupation of a Center of Resistance
- IV. Order for the March of the Relief
- V. Plan of Defense
- VI. Order for a Raid
- CHAPTER VIII SPECIAL OPERATIONS
- I. Raids
- II. Gas Warfare
- III. Liquid Fire
- IV. Mines
- TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
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