anti-tank trench

A few anti-tank trenches had been dug, but these were ludicrously inadequate both in number and size.

The long anti-tank trenches we had dug beforehand played a large part in the consolidation of our defense.

The Wehrmacht had dug anti-tank trenches in the village, which were used to bury the dead.

Anti-tank trenches and five rows of chevaux-de-frise blocked the road leading to the gate.

During the War an anti-tank trench was dug alongside the Head (the school's main cricket pitch).

One hundred meters away, a thousand civilians hacked at the earth with shovels and picks to excavate an anti-tank trench.

Both are former anti-tank trenches and contain the remains of a large number of Ustaša soldiers and Croatian civilians.

Finally, anti-tank obstacles were prepared on the likely approaches by deepening and widening existing ground cratering, the precursors of the anti-tank trench.

The new communist government took advantage of existing anti-tank trenches, dug around Celje by the retreating German army, by using them as mass graves.

Anti-tank trenches, also called anti-tank ditches, are ditches dug into and around fortified positions to hold up the advance of enemy tanks.

Telling argued strongly against the destruction of an important remnant of "Aryan civilization" and Himmler authorized him to stop the construction of the anti-tank trench.

It is not just the teen-age revolutionary poseurs who rule the neighborhoods, hijacking and burning cars, digging anti-tank trenches, turning away ambulances and terrorizing local residents.

This enclave was heavily fortified by the Turkish forces, in preparation for just such a siege, and was protected by bunkers, machine gun nests and anti-tank trenches.

We passed an anti-tank trench and a raised berm, where Kola'i got down or rather was pushed down, protesting and sobbing and calling on Hosein, by the Volunteers.

The line of trenches and concrete bunkers, shielded by anti-tank trenches and obstacles, was to be constructed along a low glacial hill overlooking the valley of the Mławka river, to the north of the town.

The "pocket" of La Rochelle ("Poche de La Rochelle") was a zone extending to a distance of about 10 kilometers around La Rochelle, reinforced by an anti-tank trench.

It was the site of a Yugoslav Partisan massacre of civilians at the and of World War II in 1945, which killed approximately 500 people, with the Partisans burying the bodies in an anti-tank trench.

On 17 September the Amersfoort train station was destroyed in a bombing (Arnhem Air Raid) and on 26 September, he and around 1100 other men were taken to Zwolle for forced labour, digging anti-tank trenches.

Following the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II, the Wehrmacht feared that a second Allied invasion might take place through Denmark, and contemplated converting the earthen wall into an anti-tank trench to counter this threat.

Lieutenant Colonel Dyess was killed on February 2, 1944 by a burst of enemy machine gun fire while standing on the parapet of an anti-tank trench directing a group of infantry in a flanking attack against the last Japanese position in the northern part of Namur Island.