jtsjc1
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What was the trouble? I haven't gotten 4.0 yet but just in case I run into a problem.
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I'm reading Snow And Steel right now and its excellent.
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Any more MG AARs for the 72 anniversary coming up?
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On 7/27/2016 at 5:03 PM, kohlenklau said:
...it depends on who is pulling the trigger...
Manila John and M1917A1 did a pretty good job in Guadalcanal.
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I've always wondered what was found in there. Computers, hard drives etc and what was on them.
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That was "Fireball". The full story is in Hunnicutt's Pershing book (which has been reprinted). Looking at the pic with the soldiers on the turret, you can see the damaged co-axial mg on the right front fender.
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7 hours ago, IICptMillerII said:
Airborne All The Way!
That being said I've always had an immense amount of respect and interest in the boys that hit the beaches, specifically the 29th Infantry Division. If anyone is looking for a great book that follows the Blue and the Gray from training in England, through D-Day and into the hedgerow fighting of Normandy, then I highly recommend "Beyond The Beachhead" by Joseph Balkoski.
John, the YouTube link to the broadcast during the morning hours of the invasion was fascinating to listen to. Great find, thanks for sharing it!
Another great book is The Bedford Boys about the 29th soldiers from that town. Excellent read.
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Wow! Great vid was that a QB? The casualties from artillery fire were nasty. I like the tank crews fighting with their pistols too. You can hear the cartridges ejecting from the .45.
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Reminds me at the beginning of The Longest Day. That was a strafing run though.
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5 hours ago, Ts4EVER said:
I double checked, and the 3d model is a Springfield rifle. I do remember there was a thread that the sniper in the tutorial scenario uses an M1 Garand. I checked this and both icon and model are unscoped, but maybe there was an oversight and the rifle was coded at using optics? Note that there was a scoped version of the M1, but as far as I know it was not used in combat in WW2 (only in the Korean and Vietnam wars).
That seems correct. Bruce Canfield and Scott Duff both say some M1C arrived in the Philippines before VJ-Day. Not in Europe.
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Nice detail on the Garand.
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No problem enjoy. There's a lot of good stuff on there.
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2 hours ago, grunt_GI said:
https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00550-6
This is EVERYTHING done on the US Army in World War 2 on DVD from the GPO...they are all in PDF format and include all the maps. A BARGAIN at only $11...I bought them on CD as separate volumes years ago and they are fantastic.
I purchased it myself and though I have many Green Books some of the ones on the cd are very hard to find or expensive. If you can find this buy it.. They often list items as backorder but I've gotten a couple of books that were on backorder and they do get them pretty fast.
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http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/100/100-11/index.html Michael this may be what you're looking for. It has the maps of the German emplacements etc and comes with an envelope with about 20 additional maps. I purchased it direct from CMH. You can view a pdf also but I prefer hardcopies. There's also a good one for Utah Beach.
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Battleground is actually an excellent movie. The best Hollywood production of the battle.
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The other two are The War In The Pacific and The Mediterranean Theater. Both pub in 1993. No ISBN.
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2 hours ago, kevinkin said:
I have a couple of hard copies from a library sale.The original pull out maps look nice in frames. There was once a publication of those maps for the ETO in a soft cover atlas. Barnes and Nobel 6.99!!! Picked up two copies and framed a few maps for our recreation room. How the wife puts up with me .....
Yes I have the atlas also. There is a PTO and a MTO atlas.
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14 hours ago, Michael Emrys said:
Unless they have improved the quality of their reprints, I'd be a little wary of buying one. Some years ago I bought a reprint of Cross Channel Attack, about the Normandy invasion, and was disappointed with it. I think the text was all there same as the original, but all the maps except for the ones embedded in the text were missing. The lavish three color maps of the original publications and vital to them weren't there at all.
Michael
Didn't know that. I have older copies so I had no idea about the reprints.
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Amazon has reprints of it for sale. Excellent book.
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The one from BS was pretty good too.
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3 hours ago, Douglas Ruddd said:
A copy of WW2 is here, have not read it, 200+ pages:
That was Rexford. He was an excellent source of info on the subject. Great reading if you're interested in it.
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9 minutes ago, markus544 said:
Was the King Tiger out of gas or disabled...still was a semi-mobile pill box with the dreaded 88. Made sure a 76 mm round made him dead tiger
I believe it was out of gas.
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Looks like a game of "who's gun is the biggest".
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Thanks for posting that. Considering how short that battle was (in comparison to say Stalingrad) the casualties were pretty steep. One of the great accomplishments in US Military history. I've had that book for awhile thanks for reminding me!
Tac-AI Tweak Request - Minefields
in Combat Mission Red Thunder
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Soldiers with more experience should be more cautious of the possible presence of mines. Or in this case after the first man stepped on a mine, the rest of the platoon should have gone to the ground.