WIP Critique Stormtrooper Infantryman, Assault Battalion, Western Front 1918

[megroot]

Yes Ulrich they are near 1.50m. In a English book i read that they where 6 ft high. I thought 1 feet was 30 cm.
But yes, they where alot higher then we thought. If they where not that high, the wirecutter was not needed, because they could step over.
And i go with you about the bended. And if we go that way, the tanks could bend them. At least they where on the Somme.

The picture from the Somme don't show pigtails but wooden sticks.
On Roger's post you can see the hight.

The are not always used pigtails as this picture shows.

It's called bloody picnic.

marc

 

[billyturnip]

I suppose it also depends how far they are pushed into the ground and it would appear they came in different lengths.

Here's some good info,

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=106576

 

[Ulrich]

Marc: You are right. There a wooden sticks on "my" photo. And I have learned something new: First the English word for them and they were much higher as I thought.

Roger: When I read your link it seems that they have three heights. Logical. So you could not go under or over them without many problems

Thanks you for that information

Ulrich

 

[Dan Morton]

At the risk of telling you something you already know, by 1917 or 1918, the British Royal Engineers (RE) (not sure about anybody else) were fabricating barbed wire in sections, taking into No Man's Land the sections, staking down the sections and then linking them together with strands of more barbed wire. It was a quicker way to cover or re-wire a larger area. I have a picture of one somewhere but could not find it this morning.

All the best,
Dan