See how No Man's Land between World War I trenches led to the use of chemical weapons, tanks, and warplanes
Heavy fighting on what became known as “No Man's Land” spawned the first military...
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NARRATOR: On the Western Front, across northeast France, the gigantic armies were deadlocked.
Their trenches faced each other across a bleakness called No Man's Land.
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To break this deadlock of the trenches, many devices of war were introduced or developed--barbed wire to protect trenches; poison gas and the gas mask; armored tanks with guns; observation balloons for directing long-range artillery fire; and the airplane as a military weapon, with the first aerial dogfights and the first bombing raids; and the devastating barrage of big guns. In the battles of Verdun and of the Somme in 1916, there were almost two million casualties, yet neither side won a decisive victory. No Man's Land became a symbol of the First World War's devastation.
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Their trenches faced each other across a bleakness called No Man's Land.
[Music in]
To break this deadlock of the trenches, many devices of war were introduced or developed--barbed wire to protect trenches; poison gas and the gas mask; armored tanks with guns; observation balloons for directing long-range artillery fire; and the airplane as a military weapon, with the first aerial dogfights and the first bombing raids; and the devastating barrage of big guns. In the battles of Verdun and of the Somme in 1916, there were almost two million casualties, yet neither side won a decisive victory. No Man's Land became a symbol of the First World War's devastation.
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