Casca 21: the Trench Soldier
“Once the battle was joined, the Germans had been unable to use their artillery and had depended upon successive waves of infantry, attacks to dislodge the Tommies from their hastily dug defenses.
From the ridge where the German big guns were now set up, the ground ran in a long slope toward the river, and down into some dead ground. So that after crossing this space, the attacking German infantry then had to toil up another short, steep incline before they came to the top of the next slope,... the downside of which ended at the river.
The British five-inch guns and machine guns were able to prevent the Germans from securing this second ridge, so that they could not bring their heavy weapons to bear on the Tommies.
Casca expected the worst for the morning. Surely the Germans would suspend their unsuccessful infantry charges and begin at dawn to saturate the British lines with shell fire.
But well before dawn Major Blandings had the troops roused and moved up the first, short slope toward the German lines.MoreLess
From the ridge where the German big guns were now set up, the ground ran in a long slope toward the river, and down into some dead ground. So that after crossing this space, the attacking German infantry then had to toil up another short, steep incline before they came to the top of the next slope,... the downside of which ended at the river.
The British five-inch guns and machine guns were able to prevent the Germans from securing this second ridge, so that they could not bring their heavy weapons to bear on the Tommies.
Casca expected the worst for the morning. Surely the Germans would suspend their unsuccessful infantry charges and begin at dawn to saturate the British lines with shell fire.
But well before dawn Major Blandings had the troops roused and moved up the first, short slope toward the German lines.MoreLess
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