With bayonets, the Marines dug shallow foxholes from which they could fight from the prone position.

Auerbach wanted to pound his head against the dirt of the shallow foxhole he'd scraped out for himself.

After completing his search and seeing the American infantrymen accompanying his tank destroyer being overrun in their shallow foxholes, Sergeant Choate grabbed a bazooka and ran after the German tank.

He stood in their shallow foxhole, cupped his hands to his mouth and faced the top of the slope.

The command position was located, in classical fashion, dead center in the middle of the platoon where a shallow foxhole, slightly reminiscent of a grave, had been hollowed out.

I was alone in a shallow foxhole, alone and frightened and in great danger.

During the Vietnam War, carpet bombing of enemy units dug into shallow foxholes by B-52's often failed to suppress enemy resistance more than marginally.

The men were sheltered behind low mounds of old legworm trails, patterns crisscrossing as though braided by a drunk, creating little gaps like very shallow foxholes.

Soviet anti-tank gunners with their long-barreled weapons lay belly down behind dirt embankments, machine-gunners squatted in shallow foxholes, and fresh, hot craters were filled in seconds with men looking for cover in the earth.

During one of the shellings, Lesniewski took cover in a shallow foxhole.