spider hole: /spider hole/, 1.
* n. the place where defeated Iraq dictators retire to; 2.
* n. a mutant human-spider's donkey. This article is a stub. You can get a Tip of the Hat* from Stephen by adding only truthiness to it.*Tip of the Hat not guaranteed.
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* n. the place where defeated Iraq dictators retire to; 2.
* n. a mutant human-spider's donkey. This article is a stub. You can get a Tip of the Hat* from Stephen by adding only truthiness to it.*Tip of the Hat not guaranteed.
- The term is usually understood to be an allusion to the camouflaged hole constructed by the trapdoor spider. According to United States Marine Corps historian Major Chuck Melson, the term originated in the American Civil War, when it meant a hastily-dug foxhole. Spider holes were used during World War II by Japanese forces in many Pacific battlefields, including Leyte in the Philippines and Iwo Jima. They called them for a fancied resemblance to the pots used to catch octopuses in Japan. Spider holes were also used by Vietnamese Communist fighters during the Vietnam War.
- Spider Holes were typically only used by Japan during WWII, but they were sometimes used by the Americans. Spider Holes originated from the American Civil War and had since evolved into well hidden foxholes. They had varied success, but were still used throughout the latter years of WWII. Japanese Spider Holes were never really used for observation, but instead for suicide attacks. Soldiers would wait for the main Allied force to pass and then attack the Allied units in the rear.
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| - Spider Holes were typically only used by Japan during WWII, but they were sometimes used by the Americans. Spider Holes originated from the American Civil War and had since evolved into well hidden foxholes. They had varied success, but were still used throughout the latter years of WWII. Japanese Spider Holes were never really used for observation, but instead for suicide attacks. Soldiers would wait for the main Allied force to pass and then attack the Allied units in the rear. Some Japanese would even blow themselves up if a tank passed over their hole. Among the places where spider holes were used includes Iwo Jima and the Philippines. Later in the Vietnam War, Spider Holes were used by the Vietcong and US forces alike.
- spider hole: /spider hole/, 1.
* n. the place where defeated Iraq dictators retire to; 2.
* n. a mutant human-spider's donkey. This article is a stub. You can get a Tip of the Hat* from Stephen by adding only truthiness to it.*Tip of the Hat not guaranteed.
- The term is usually understood to be an allusion to the camouflaged hole constructed by the trapdoor spider. According to United States Marine Corps historian Major Chuck Melson, the term originated in the American Civil War, when it meant a hastily-dug foxhole. Spider holes were used during World War II by Japanese forces in many Pacific battlefields, including Leyte in the Philippines and Iwo Jima. They called them for a fancied resemblance to the pots used to catch octopuses in Japan. Spider holes were also used by Vietnamese Communist fighters during the Vietnam War. The American columnist William Safire claimed in the December 15, 2003, issue of the New York Times that the term originated in the Vietnam War. According to Safire, one of the characteristics of these holes was that they held a "clay pot large enough to hold a crouching man." If the pot broke, the soldier was exposed to attack from snakes or spiders, hence the name "spider hole". On December 13, 2003, during the Iraq War, American forces in Operation Red Dawn captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein hiding in what was characterized as a "spider hole" in a farmhouse near his hometown of Tikrit.
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