Formerly Babra
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Good to know, thanks.
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When I die I want to go peacefully, like my grandfather, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car
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I remember watching that on "America's Scariest Police Chases" or some such Fox offering. I was astonished at how quickly the police were able to gain entrance.
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When I die I want to go peacefully, like my grandfather, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car
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I suppose if the scenario created for the gold demo user didn't use any new equipment that would work. But there are no textures for other vehicles in the demo, so it wouldn't be worthwhile to throw in a jagdpanther for instance.
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When I die I want to go peacefully, like my grandfather, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car
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Use of searchlights in combat... Repost below.
September 8, 1939, near Ilza, Poland. A heavy Polish counterattack is in progress. I/Flakregiment No. 22 finds itself in the front line. They are positioned badly and pinned down by numerous machine guns. A single 20mm Flak gun is ordered to position itself on a prominent hill on the right flank...
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"Obediently the crew of 5 Battery's No. 3 gun, led by Section Leader Maurischat, manhandled their weapon on to a knoll just behind the vital hill. But from here its field of fire was still limited, so the bombardiers, rushing their 16-cwt. charge down its slope, tried to get its momentum to carry it up the slope of Hill 246 opposite. Half-way up it stuck.
Down ran the observation officers and, putting their weight behind it, forced the gun up to just short of the summit. With everything ready and the magazines loaded, gunner Kniehase lined up his target with the observer's telescope and took his seat. Then, choosing the moment when the Poles were reloading their nearest machine gun, officers and men pushed the gun to the pinnacle and it opened up. Forty shots were fired, straight into the target.
Almost at once, Kniehase and his gun were behind the hill again. Not a moment too soon, for seconds later the summit was lashed with fire.
The performance was repeated eight times. And each time one enemy machine gun or anti-tank post was reduced to silence, to the cheers of the troopers who for hours had been pinned down in the undulating scrubland, unable to inch forward or back.
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Later that evening, another Polish attack was repulsed. As the beleaguered Flak crews prepared to receive the next attack, two 60 cm searchlights arrived at the front...
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To Seidenath, the two 60-cm searchlights came as a Godsend. Carefully he arranged them so they could illuminate the battery's foreground from either side.
The night was pitch black. Around 23.30 hours Polish words of command were heard just in front of the German positions. The message to get ready to fire was passed in a whisper from one crew to the next. Then the right-hand searchlight was switched on. As the enemy ducked under its glare, the flak hammered forth. After three seconds the light went out, to be replaced by the left one. So they alternated, changing their positions during the moments of extinction. Before the Poles could aim the machine guns at the shining orbs they had always gone out.
In this way, after a quarter of an hour's battle, this attack too was beaten off...
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From the Luftwaffe War Diaries, by Cajus Bekker.
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Wasn't Dutch Schultz a paratrooper in the 82nd?
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When I die I want to go peacefully, like my grandfather, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car
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Yee Haw! Go JEB!
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When I die I want to go peacefully, like my grandfather, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car
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Set up upwind of your enemy, burn a house down, cross the river...
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When I die I want to go peacefully, like my grandfather, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car
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Worthington Tank Park is located at CFB Borden. Website is: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6209/
The Hetzer is currently under restoration to running condition.
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When I die I want to go peacefully, like my grandfather, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car
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Tell me, are the German cemeteries open to the public, or do you have to make an appointment to enter them? So many of the Confederate cemeteries here in North America are shut up like prisons due to vandalism.
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Born a wargamer? I think so. My most prized toys as the very weemost sprog were my green army men. Many a war was won and lost in the garden. There's probably still a few unknown soldiers buried there
( & the first movie my parents took me to at the drive-in was Kelly's Heroes.)
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When I die I want to go peacefully, like my grandfather, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car
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The Haunted tank strikes again....
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When I die I want to go peacefully, like my grandfather, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car
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Music? Get yourself a K-Tel pop album, circa 1970 and turn the volume up at least past seven...
As for the town scenario, I was going to start mine at the point immediately AFTER the sleeping company got demo'd. Since CM doesn't simulate soldiers asleep or not alert, it's the only way to pull it off.
NOTE: Foolishly tried to post during the downtime and now my old ID don't work no more....
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When I die I want to go peacefully, like my grandfather, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car
READ, very interesting Stuff!!!!!
in Combat Mission Archive #2 (2000)
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The Japanese J1M, J2, J3, A1, A2, B1, B2 & B3 Classes of submarine were all constructed with a hanger containing one float plane. The AM Class Submarines had two planes. A total of 39 submarines of all these classes were completed.
The STO Class, as designed, carried three aircraft and were the largest subs of their day. The design was based on a proposal by Yamamoto for a sub-launched bombing raid on Panama. Two were completed, a third was converted to a submarine tanker, and twelve more were cancelled or never completed.
EDIT: I don't know about 40:1, but there's a reason pilots from less militarily advanced nations tend to outperform their Ami allies in maneuvers. They get a hell of a lot more flying time -- often dangerously more -- due to an insufficiency of military resources. Where America has three or four men to do a job, these smaller (numerically) nations have to send one man to three or four times as much. The number of combat aircraft in the Canadian Armed Forces is laughably small, but the Canada is a big place and the Arctic frontier needs to be patrolled. The end result is that Canadian pilots get more air-time.
Israel, being in a state of war with Syria for nigh on these past three or four decades, obviously has its own unique conditions.
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When I die I want to go peacefully, like my grandfather, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car
[This message has been edited by Formerly Babra (edited 06-04-2000).]