| 21. | Too many soldiers, exasperated by the rocky soil of Tunisia, were still digging shallow slit trenches instead of deep foxholes.
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| 22. | Arriving at the farm, Gerrard's men chase out the occupants and dig slit trenches out in front of the farm.
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| 23. | A long narrow opening at the top of the hull earned the vehicle a nickname : " mobile slit trench ".
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| 24. | The cliff top to the north was covered by a line of heavy anti-aircraft guns and batteries, slit trenches and pillboxes.
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| 25. | Other precautions at Archerfield in case of air attack included slit trenches, introduction of camouflage, and the use of decoy aircraft.
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| 26. | Nobody gets buried in a slit trench in a Polish wood, a Cambodian jungle, a Bosnian hillside, a Kosovo cow pasture.
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| 27. | American personnel losses were light due to adequate warning and the network of slit trenches distant from the aircraft parking area.
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| 28. | _He spent 32 days in and out of two-man slit trenches in October 1942 while absorbing Japanese bombing on an airfield at Guadalcanal.
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| 29. | Nonetheless, out of caution I jumped for the slit trench and was still in the air when the rocket hit near our trench.
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| 30. | The regiment's first two combat deaths occurred on July 13, when a shell struck a slit trench sheltering two men near Le Mesnil.
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