I've always been fascinated by the history of war, short stories telling tales of Fictitious battles, soldiers, and landscapes. It spreads knowledge of what it was like, even if its not entirely true. The setting of the counter assault is France, in 1917. America had recently joined the war and gave a massive boost to Allied man power in the European theater.
Of course, this was a time period of dangerous new tools such as gas and outdated tactics. Heavy machine guns that could hold a position for hours. The great war, as they called it, was an unforgiving and bloody conflict. The out-dated tactics in the face of new technology caused needlessly high body-counts, as well as a new threat: Tanks.
Introduced by Germany, they were massive metal boxes that rendered infantry bullets useless. Many early tanks had machine guns and 'cannons' which could fire an explosive shell. Before British and French tanks were introduced and mobilized, the only way to destroy them were: Artillery, Landmines, or other explosives available to Engineers. Not even regular infantry grenades could deal with the threat.
Hunter Robinson
8/28/15
Age: 15
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