The unit spent the entire two-month campaign conducting offensive operations against general Eduard Dietl's entrenched troops.
Critically, it was assumed that artillery could still destroy entrenched troops, or at least suppress them sufficiently for friendly infantry and cavalry to manoeuvre.
German radio is heard broadcasting the song to the entrenched American troops to demoralize them.
The rangers then fought entrenched Chinese troops at grenade range, and, after intense fighting, they were able to push the Chinese off the ridge.
Proximity fuses are used with artillery shells for "air bursts" against entrenched troops and in anti-aircraft and anti-missile roles as well.
The Americans in turn began to fire on entrenched Spanish troops on the hills in front of them.
In front of them were about 900 entrenched troops from Satsuma, with four cannons.
The rats would soon be landing among Pew Mogel's entrenched troops.
Their advance only slowed down as they encountered regrouped and entrenched German troops in the Vosges Mountains.
She was considered the hero of the Battle of Yungay when she led an assault against the entrenched Confederate troops.