The trenches are gonna be tougher than the climb up.

Go wait for me in your trench.

Talk with officer.

South of Tieling.

He started climbing out of the trench.

Get these men out of the trenches!

The men are falling back to our own trenches.

My trenches are soaked with it!

Get ready. We're gonna rush the trench.

Spread the rest of your men along this trench.

Damn! Couldn't you have dug it deeper?

We're getting no place. Every one of these trenches is a separate dogfight.

Corporal Paris, why didn't you leave the trenches?

Where are the rest? Zero plus one, and they're still in the trenches.

If I use them before I hit the trenches, what happens then?

Hustle the other to the trench under it. Block 'em.

We've taken the crest of the hill and the whole trench system.

Yes, sir, until I was ordered back to the trenches by Captain Renouart.

So you never even left the trenches?

Your only chance is to get into these trenches before daylight.

Lieutenant O'Hashi, when he reaches the first trench,

Leave that gunner where he is and move in with the rest.

By 1916, after two grisly years of trench warfare... the battle lines had changed very little.

Tell him when he hits the first trench to pinch in this way.

Lieutenant Clemons says, when you reach the top, at the first trench... (gunfire drowns him out) ...that'll be to your right.

What was it like cooperating with people like Bolbig?

I'll push through the trenches with every man I can find.

But General Mireau demanded that he commence firing on our own trenches.

We go from the trench warfare of the First World War to the Maginot Line of the Second World War, and then we go into the Cold War, the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall.

The barrage is getting away from them. They're still in the trenches!

The fact remains... a good part of your men never left their own trenches.

Most were dead or wounded before they got three steps beyond the trenches.

Pork Chop's been lost. They were right in the trenches before anybody knew it.

But there are a dozen trenches here. We've got a foothold in only two.

I am. It's better than a nasty, dark little trench.

It's taken care of. Let's go. We'll all be safer in the trench.

When you're standing in a trench all alone, if you could have survived, you're okay, you've passed.

If some didn't leave the trenches, it must have been impossible.

To the shelter.

See your dugouts.

In most cases, the earthworks consisted of earth walls but the mission also found underground bunkers and troop trenches.

Because they didn't try. I saw it myself. Half never left the trenches.

If it was impossible, the only proof of that would be their dead bodies... lying in the trenches.

Stand by your dugouts.

The front was stabilized and shortly afterwards... developed into a continuous line of heavily fortified trenches... zigzagging their way 500 miles... from the English Channel to the Swiss frontier.