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educational illustration, used to instruct troops in causes of trenchfoot Source: from Whayne T. F. et al. [1958: 125].
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In both World Wars, combatant nations, including the United States, Britain, and Germany, learned that inadequate or poorly-maintained footwear produced costly and preventable casualties from trench foot and frostbite. While provision of shoes and boots to troops were major issues in earlier conflicts, no nation before World War I had fully appreci...
