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    Combatintman reacted to Aragorn2002 in Looking for Schirwindt map   
    Nevertheless very interesting, Combatintman, especially the fortification map, which suggests that Schirwindt itself wasn't defended. And yes, the location of the church can't be missed. Thank you!
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Lucky_Strike in Looking for Schirwindt map   
    Or here:
    First link is the index page:
    Found maps (amzp.pl)
    Remaining links are all of the maps on that index all maps are dated 1936-1944 but the ones I've looked at have elevations shown in the old-world style so no contours:
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11824023
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=6072
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=6547
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11797654
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11821246
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11824191
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11794966
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11797694
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11807669
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11838475
    Screenshot from the 1944 fortification map:

    All of the above are 1:100,000 which was the standard military map scale for German military maps of the era.  They ain't great for CM Scenario Editor Overlays so you have to use them as a sort of reference to see the layout and extent of the town and then use other tools such as Google Earth.  I've had a look there and its blatantly obvious where the church was:

    Use OpenTopoMap for your contours - there aren't many:
    OpenTopoMap - Topographische Karten aus OpenStreetMap
    Some pretty good photo resources of the place - this one stood out:
    Image Archive East Prussia, Schirwindt, aerial photo (bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de)
    Other than that, I can't' really help I'm afraid ...
     
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    Combatintman got a reaction from MOS:96B2P in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    UAV swarm at the US National Training Center:
    https://twitter.com/NTCLead6
    Good to see that the training regime is evolving.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from MOS:96B2P in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Aragorn2002 in Looking for Schirwindt map   
    Or here:
    First link is the index page:
    Found maps (amzp.pl)
    Remaining links are all of the maps on that index all maps are dated 1936-1944 but the ones I've looked at have elevations shown in the old-world style so no contours:
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11824023
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=6072
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=6547
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11797654
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11821246
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11824191
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11794966
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11797694
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11807669
    http://igrek.amzp.pl/details.php?id=11838475
    Screenshot from the 1944 fortification map:

    All of the above are 1:100,000 which was the standard military map scale for German military maps of the era.  They ain't great for CM Scenario Editor Overlays so you have to use them as a sort of reference to see the layout and extent of the town and then use other tools such as Google Earth.  I've had a look there and its blatantly obvious where the church was:

    Use OpenTopoMap for your contours - there aren't many:
    OpenTopoMap - Topographische Karten aus OpenStreetMap
    Some pretty good photo resources of the place - this one stood out:
    Image Archive East Prussia, Schirwindt, aerial photo (bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de)
    Other than that, I can't' really help I'm afraid ...
     
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    Combatintman got a reaction from BletchleyGeek in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Bil Hardenberger in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    UAV swarm at the US National Training Center:
    https://twitter.com/NTCLead6
    Good to see that the training regime is evolving.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from LukeFF in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from LuckyDog in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Calamine Waffles in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    UAV swarm at the US National Training Center:
    https://twitter.com/NTCLead6
    Good to see that the training regime is evolving.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from acrashb in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from LongLeftFlank in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Monty's Mighty Moustache in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Tux in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from G.I. Joe in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from JonS in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Huba in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Homo_Ferricus in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Kinophile in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from dan/california in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from chrisl in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from benpark in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Given the amount of data that has to be processed I would say it is impossible.  For the ground war alone - this is a Theater Intelligence Cell's job.  That will be a lot of people working in specialist areas - eg current battle, future plans, order-of-battle etc to feed the grown-up who's going to make sense of it and then brief it to the guy who's going to make the decisions.
    I am that guy in Afghanistan - On average I read 500 individual reports a day and it takes me about three and a half hours to make sense of them all.  About an hour or so to write up the individual incidents of interest and about 45 minutes to 90 minutes to find and plot where they took place.  About 20 incidents is a busy day for me.  Databasing the incidents takes about 20 minutes.  On top of that it takes me about an hour and a half to write slightly more in-depth pieces for my daily summary.  In-depth collation or in-depth reading?  Forget it ... not enough time in the day.  This is small beer compared to the amount of reporting that's coming out of Ukraine.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from cyrano01 in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    The obvious flaw in that clip is the absence of anybody either embarking or disembarking from either of the two Mi-26s.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from JonS in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    The obvious flaw in that clip is the absence of anybody either embarking or disembarking from either of the two Mi-26s.
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    Combatintman got a reaction from Taranis in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    The obvious flaw in that clip is the absence of anybody either embarking or disembarking from either of the two Mi-26s.
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