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Long Tom


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Having read the novel years ago, I remember most the scene where the protagonist and his companions are in a trench under a particularly heavy artillery attack (I assume by the French), and he says they were lucky they were in an older, deeper trench rather than a more modern shallower one, or they would have been wiped out.  Which artillery weapons would have been used for that effect?



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CharlieC


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I think you mean the passage:

"If we were in one of those light dug-outs that they have started building lately instead of this deeper one, none of us would be alive" p.76 (Mayflower edition).

A few pages earlier Remarque writes (p.69):

"The English artillery has been strengthened, that we can detect at once. There are at least four more batteries of nine-inch guns to the right of the farm, and behind

the poplars they have put in trench-mortars. Besides these they have brought up a number of those little French beasts with instantaneous fuses."

Nine-inch guns sounds like the 9.2inch howitzer. 

Regards,

Charlie

 

 



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BSM


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Very succinct and well put Charlie. Cheers Rod



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