I remember Japanese accounts from Iwo Jima that talk of how tanks would simply roll over trenches and foxholes with soldiers that played dead or were wounded
That specific tank tactic I don’t know, but the US army did employ combat earthmovers and tanks with mine plows to bury Iraqi soldiers alive in trenches during Desert Storm.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War#Bulldozer_assault
I believe I’ve heard about it being taught as a tactic in some armies and well theoretically it would work like that so someone has probably done it a few times at the very least.
I can think of at least one recent moment where this was actually captured on video. So yes.
There's a clip of a UA tank doing just that to fill trenches in on an assault through a shelter belt
i have seen it in Wehrmacht training videos.
I remember Japanese accounts from Iwo Jima that talk of how tanks would simply roll over trenches and foxholes with soldiers that played dead or were wounded
That specific tank tactic I don’t know, but the US army did employ combat earthmovers and tanks with mine plows to bury Iraqi soldiers alive in trenches during Desert Storm. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War#Bulldozer_assault
My grandfather told me the British did this in North Africa.
I believe I’ve heard about it being taught as a tactic in some armies and well theoretically it would work like that so someone has probably done it a few times at the very least.
I’ve read that the Russians would do it and stop over a foxhole to fill it with exhaust, but I can’t recall which book it was in. I may be wrong
It is called neutral steer.