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发帖数: 4391 | 1 DEPLETED URANIUM ON THE BATTLEFIELD
In an effort to break the stalemate gripping the Western Front during the
First World War, work was undertaken to develop vehicles which could traverse
the defensive trench works stretching from Switzerland to the North Sea. These
trenches, protected by barbed wire and interlocking fire from machine guns,
had become virtually unassailable to unprotected men on foot or horseback. The
first deployment of such vehicles, using continuous ‘caterpillar-type’
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