shell holes
Artillery impact cavities
Shell holes are craters left in the ground by exploding artillery shells or bombs.
The term belongs primarily to military contexts, especially descriptions of World War I battlefields, where bombardment churned landscapes into moonscapes of overlapping pits: Soldiers took cover in shell holes across no man's land.
The holes often filled with water and mud, becoming deadly traps.
- cratersImpact-formed depressions
- bomb cratersDepressions from explosive impacts
- trench warfareCombat from fortified ditches
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
- artillery fireProjectiles from heavy weapons
bombardment · front lines · no-man's-land · mud · barbed wire · explosion · pockmarked · battlefield · shrapnel · mortar · dugout · foxhole · blasted · scarred · devastation · waterlogged · debris · rubble
- Devastationrubble, debris, destruction, devastation, collapsed structures
- Trenchesfront line, parapet, traverse, dugout, dugouts
shell holessinkholes
Ground collapse cavities
riverbeds · geological formations · limestone caves · volcanic craters · valleys
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