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  1. Interesting, 808 = Plastic Explosive And digging around Brecourt Manor method of taking out the 105 guns - they apparently used TNT and a German grenade as a detenator on the first gun disabled. At least according to Ambrose... Though seems odd that if they carried in and used TNT demo blocks they didn't have their own fuses. http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/271004-wwii-demolition-equipment-help/
  2. Have a read of the monograph I linked to earlier - they were almost cancelled early on by McNair but call from those on the pointy end still wanted them which helped quickly overturn the decision - and while difficult to haul around and keep up with advances (they ideally wanted self-propelled guns) they proved useful in a few situations i.e. Sicily with distrupting enemy armour attacks and direct fire at blocking bunkers, fixed fortifications.
  3. I'm away from main puter so I don't have access to game to check - but it should feature in both Inf and Arty as they also provided top down div support as well.
  4. Because, from my reading, the cannon company was introduced into the infantry regiment Table of Organization (T/O) in March 1942. To provide a more bottom up, close up & personal infantry support role rather than a div top down approach.
  5. Nice indepth mongraph that covers The Cannon Company 1942–45 http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a210927.pdf
  6. A peculiar thing the Cannon Company http://ww2f.com/threads/regimental-cannon-company.18759/ I noticed them in the editor and was puzzled in passing - but reading up on them prompted by your observation seems to reveal they were a bit of a mixed bag for categorisation.
  7. Pg 17 Posted Thursday at 12:47 AM Sorry, coming to this one late. Our policy is to not take preorders until we think we're withing 6-8 weeks of being ready to ship. Sometimes we hit this window, other times (like now) we do not. Customers have three choices: 1. Preorder and accept that we aren't exactly sure when the game will ship 2. Don't preorder and instead wait for the game to be done first 3. Preorder, get despondent that we're taking too long, contact the Help Desk, and ask for a refund Is there another reasonable and rational option that we should consider adding to the mix? Steve
  8. You can google images to find suitable images using your choice of key words > Tools > set to large (hi-res) Then open images into an image editor to crop / resize etc into the format for your desktop screen size https://www.irfanview.com
  9. British public schools introduce future officers to team play and tactics via cricket, and the overiding importance of the tea interval. INCOMING!! And that's tea
  10. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Massacre-Mankind-Authorised-Sequel-Worlds/dp/1473205093 War of the World Martians return better prepared to invade Earth and recover their fallen from their failed first invasion. England fights them with advanced WW1/WW2/alien type weaponry and defensive lines with fixed fortifications akin to Maginot / Stalingrad. https://rebelvoice.blog/2017/07/24/the-massacre-of-mankind/
  11. Take a look in Chrome's Preferences settings for Passwords > Saved Passwords Check to see it has stored the correct username / PW for battlefront.com & community.battlefront.com
  12. Puzzled if you can't login to forum how are you posting on the forum I notice in your screenshot you are using your email address rather than your user name to log into Forum Are you typing in the password or is the computer auto filling it in from stored? What browser are you using? can you clear out any stored cookies and cache and start from scratch.
  13. NOOOOOO.... the bird sounds could be the Northern Bald Ibis https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2011/03/18/new-hope-for-a-rare-bird-in-the-syrian-desert-explorers-journal/ New Hope for a Rare Bird in the Syrian Desert, Explorers Journal A few years back, Gianluca Serra found a legendary bird thought extinct in Syria, with funds from National Geographic’s Committee for Research and Exploration. Now Serra is trying to forge a stable population of these ungainly creatures, with a little help from a prince and some first ladies. The northern bald ibis was considered extinct in Syria for more than 70 years, according to the scientific literature. Tell us about how this legendary bird was rediscovered — and when and where. We rediscovered the bald ibis on a remote cliff of the Syrian desert in April 2002, following clues from local hunters and Bedouin nomads as part of a general fauna survey of the area. The birds were the oriental subspecies of northern bald ibis, which had not been seen for many years.
  14. The forum and shop use different logins - problem can be with browser trying to use same one as both use same domain. Make a note of each login details - and try clearing cache & cookies before logging in entering each separately.
  15. I don't think JK reads what he links to As CM shows unless the enemy is sufficiently supressed / ill equipped then experimentation is likely to be a painful failure.
  16. Google maps - satellite view Then look at old photos of the bay to work out where modern developments / sprawl needs stripping out. More here > http://www.mucchioselvaggio.org/FOTO_A5/2008_12_dicembre/foto 1894-1945/index.html
  17. Intersting with Norway as I thought there was a social welfare alternative as a subsitute if folks were disinclined for miliitary service. But it seems there's so few exemptions applied for that they are simply let go. (might have changed as the article is from 2011 and woman have since been conscripted) https://www.wri-irg.org/en/story/2011/norway-end-substitute-service-conscientious-objectors Vet 0369 - would you offer alternative of serving instead on social welfare schemes i.e working for benefit of old, infirm, learning difficulties etc. ?
  18. Been there many moons ago on a very hot summer's day when the fair ground was still going - it was fascinatingly carved out from soft chalk and gratefully nice & cool when topside temps were in the 90s. More feasibly a Victorian folly / tourist attraction and expanded upon from an old chalk mine with decorations as it was 'found' about the time that railways from London to Kent seaside made weekend day tripping possible. Follow the money as CTers say...:-) http://www.kentarchaeology.ac/authors/023.pdf I was possibly cursed that day as an unbeliever as I picked up a scabby scalp infection after swimming in Margate's effluent outflow lovely healing waters... Ye olde Chalk / flint mines exist along the east and south coast originally laid down when Britain was around where the Med is in a tropical climate low laying island chain. An artist friend has been working on a project in Bury St Edmunds where there's a network of chalk tunnels and caverns > https://www.welovebse.com/2016/04/chalk-work-tunnels/ Chalk tunnels in Dover > https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3167510/Secret-network-tunnels-constructed-White-Cliffs-Dover-help-stop-German-ships-moving-freely-Channel-World-War-II-reopens-public-time-40-years.html The Fan Bay Deep Shelter was carved out of chalk in just 100 days
  19. Maybe it''s an overdue baby - how do we induce? Hot currry and jog or do go for a C-section
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