21. Too many soldiers, exasperated by the rocky soil of Tunisia, were still digging shallow slit trenches instead of deep foxholes. 22. Arriving at the farm, Gerrard's men chase out the occupants and dig slit trenches out in front of the farm. 23. A long narrow opening at the top of the hull earned the vehicle a nickname : " mobile slit trench ". 24. The cliff top to the north was covered by a line of heavy anti-aircraft guns and batteries, slit trenches and pillboxes. 25. Other precautions at Archerfield in case of air attack included slit trenches , introduction of camouflage, and the use of decoy aircraft. 26. Nobody gets buried in a slit trench in a Polish wood, a Cambodian jungle, a Bosnian hillside, a Kosovo cow pasture. 27. American personnel losses were light due to adequate warning and the network of slit trenches distant from the aircraft parking area. 28. _He spent 32 days in and out of two-man slit trenches in October 1942 while absorbing Japanese bombing on an airfield at Guadalcanal. 29. Nonetheless, out of caution I jumped for the slit trench and was still in the air when the rocket hit near our trench. 30. The regiment's first two combat deaths occurred on July 13, when a shell struck a slit trench sheltering two men near Le Mesnil.
