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By Norma Hernandez, Maria Feller

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they used them in the Ypres war, it was in the second battle of Passchendaele, whey were used in both world one and two, in the second war they were used by the Czech in defence  against the Germans.

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the pillboxes (concrete forts) had begun by being concrete cellers in farm houses,

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It was invented the Germans but British also used them , pill boxes or blockhouses were miniature forts, it was used to give their trench lands extra strength, it was also used because it had excellence protection from artillery fire

a concrete fort: in the late 1917 military olloquialism by jun 1918 the resamblence of their shape to that of an oblong box for holding pills. the genesis of pill box charles Edmonds a subalterns war 192

it was in the shape of a pillbox, square, oblong, polygonal and round it is relatedd to the small containers wsed to carry medical pills

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It made it harder for the enemy to attack them, and made t easier for the people who had the pillbox to attack the apposing army

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Pillboxes are concrete dug-in guard post, normally equipped with loopholes through which you can fire weapons( machine-gun pillboxes). It was said that the first time it was used was in 1917 on Sep. 13th after the German withdrawal onto the Hindenburg line. Sir Ernest William Moir was the known inventor of the pillbox.

Imagine a small room ten feet square and six feet high with walls of thick rough concrete. There is only one opening, the door, over which a waterproof sheet is draped.