How did soldiers in WWI who wore jackboots keep the boots from being sucked off in the mud?
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My father fought on the German side on the Western Front in the First World War, as a very young man. I remember him telling me that the great advantage of high boots without laces was exactly that they could easily be taken off and put on quickly, unlike the low laced boots and puttees worn by British soldiers. He said as a result that "trench foot" was common among British soldiers, whose feet were never able to dry out in wet conditions, but unknown in the German army.
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The usual means was to put something over the mud, such as wooden planks, as is visible in pretty much every scene of a trench in use.
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I have worn Jack boots in thick deep mud and they actually stayed on my foot well enough that my hip/leg joint popped but they wouldn't slip off as long as I kept my foot at around a 90 deg angle.
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