The story of the great war . French Pictorial Service German Shelter for Large Gun toConceal it from Aeroplane Obser-vation 316 THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR of 1918 made it clear that they had solved the question of break-ing through the trenches and fighting through into the open be-yond. Foch believed that the Allies had also solved it, and thatthe Hindenburg Line itself would offer no real French Pictorial Service French Whippet Tanks Charging with American Troops, 1918. pace of infantry. Note slow The greatest difficulty to meet had been the machine guns con-cealed in concrete she
The story of the great war . French Pictorial Service German Shelter for Large Gun toConceal it from Aeroplane Obser-vation 316 THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR of 1918 made it clear that they had solved the question of break-ing through the trenches and fighting through into the open be-yond. Foch believed that the Allies had also solved it, and thatthe Hindenburg Line itself would offer no real French Pictorial Service French Whippet Tanks Charging with American Troops, 1918. pace of infantry. Note slow The greatest difficulty to meet had been the machine guns con-cealed in concrete shelters. Human flesh could not stand beforemachine gun fire, and the artillery, however accurate its aim, hadproved itself unable to destroy the kind of shelters that the Ger-mans had constructed. However perfect, therefore, had become THE FINAL PROBLEM 317 the technique of the Allies in other ways, the concrete shelterwith its machine guns always prevented the continuation of theadvance. It was with this sort of arrangement that the tankswere intended to cope. They were to roll in upon these concreteshelters and clean them out. The first tanks, however, were large,slow, and clumsy. The German aeroplanes were quick, andpresently the German gunners began to drop high explosiveson the tanks, and the moment the technique of the German largeartillery became capable of destroying the big tanks, their
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