https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7 Made with love en-us 2018-04-11 15:39:18 UTC 2018-04-11 16:59:24 UTC hello@padlet.com hernanor https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250779400 By Norma Hernandez, Maria Feller]]> 2018-04-11 15:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250779400 hernanor https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250781637 2018-04-11 15:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250781637 hernanor https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250783424 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.]]> 2018-04-11 15:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250783424 hernanor https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250785517 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 ]]> 2018-04-11 15:53:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250785517 hernanor https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250789655 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.]]> 2018-04-11 16:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250789655 hernanor https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250791919 the pillboxes (concrete forts) had begun by being concrete cellers in farm houses, ]]> 2018-04-11 16:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250791919 hernanor https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250794119 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 ]]> 2018-04-11 16:08:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250794119 hernanor https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250797653 2018-04-11 16:14:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250797653 hernanor https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250797730 2018-04-11 16:14:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250797730 hernanor https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250798248 2018-04-11 16:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250798248 hernanor https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250799247 2018-04-11 16:17:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250799247 hernanor https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250800125 2018-04-11 16:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hernanor/jztescd7jta7/wish/250800125