Entrenching tool
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An entrenching tool, intrenching tool, E-tool, or trenching tool is a digging tool used by military forces for a variety of military purposes. Survivalists, campers, hikers, and other outdoors groups
World War I era entrenching tool
US Bayonet Model 1873 Trowel
Linnemann shovel from WWI (Romania)
World War I and II era Russian MPL-50 (malaya pekhotnaya lopata – small infantry spade) are similar to the entrenching tools used by most armies participating in those conflicts.
Pickaxe
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A pickaxe, pick-axe, or pick is a generally T-shaped hand tool used for digging. Its head is typically metal, attached perpendicularly to a longer handle, traditionally made of wood, occasionally meta
Entrenching tool
…were dug to a wall's foundation, and collapsing the wall was attempted. In more modern times the siege tactics of the Napoleonic Wars used spades and pickaxes as entrenching tools to dig trenches towards the walls of the fortifications being besieged, to allow men and munitions to get close enough to fire…
Pickaxe on the ground
Ceremony hammer of a miner VEB Kombinat Senftenberg (GDR) - with honorary uniform
Illustration of pickaxe handles being combined with riot shields