Military Strategy
'Pillboxes' would offer protection from enemy fire whilst still allowing the machine gun crew to efficiently take out hostile forces.
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Throughout World War, the Maxim machine gun was predominantly
used by the German Army as an offensive tactic. This was done via one of their most famous World War 1 strategies where the German soldiers would set up concrete bunkers, also known as ‘pillboxes’ where it would be camouflaged with branches. These bunkers had a small slit in the front of it where 12 machine guns, most likely Maxim machine guns would be able to fire and its crew would still be able to have maximum cover from the returning enemy fire, assuming that any were left. These pillboxes were used as an effective machine gun strategy for the German Army throughout World War 1 as they would be placed on the most outer part of the trench to maximise the range and the area that the machine gun could cover when firing. Furthermore, when these pillboxes were not apparent on the battlefield, mainly due to the fact that pillboxes were made when one army was anticipating confrontation, machine guns could be used as a highly effective means of eliminating the enemy forces. |