Mobile personnel shield
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mobile-personnel-shield-173-11995138
title:
Mobile personnel shield
text:
A mobile personnel shield is a type of bulletproof shield equipped with wheels. Such devices were employed experimentally during the trench warfare of World War I. The immobility of the trench warfare characterizing the First World War led to a need for a device that would protect soldiers from enemy fire and could help them move on the extremely irregular terrain of battlefields. The French colonel Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne considered armed cross-country vehicles such as the future tank as
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
WWI personal protection devices
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_personnel_shield
date created:
2009-05-24T05:40:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T07:55:57Z
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image:
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13
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