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== = The Bloody Conflict = Combat in WWI consisited mainly of trench warfare, powerful artillery guns were placed several miles behind the front lines, they would shoot huge explosive shells into the battle field. More people died this way then by any other weapon in WWI. "Many dead Germans along the road. One heap on a manure pile. . . . Devastation everywhere. Our barrage has rooted up the entire territory like a ploughed field. Dead horses galore, many of them have a hind quarter cut off--the Huns [Germans] need food. Dead men here and there."

--quoted in //The American Spirit//

In order to protect themselves from the heavy artillery guns fire, the soldiers began to dig trenches. In these trenches were many rats and dead bodies, it was one of the worst living conditions for war.