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Interesting and sad article Broadsword came across today.
Alfred Gartner, a German paratrooper, was killed on a summer's day fighting in the fields of Normandy. Yesterday, in a simple and moving ceremony at the German military cemetery at La Cambe, which lies squarely in the middle of Utah and Omaha beaches, he was buried.
His body, or what little remained of it, was found by a farmer only last week in one of the traditional bocage hedges that define the lanes and fields of Normandy. A cow grazing in a field at La Luzerne, north-east of St Lo, blundered into the hedge and dislodged the bones that had lain there undisturbed since 1944. Part of the skull, a bone from an arm and some ribs were found alongside tunic buttons and a rusting pistol.
Also found were Alfred's dog tags, containing the date of his mobilisation, which allowed the Deutsche Dienststelle, custodian of the military records of 18 million German soldiers from the two world wars, to identify him. He was part of the 6th Parachute Regiment reformed in January 1944 and sent to help to beat off the threat of invasion on the north French coastline.
Records show that he was killed by an enemy grenade as his unit fought unsuccessfully to stop the American infantry advance towards St Lo, which they finally took on July 18, 1944. It is thought the force of the exploding grenade blew him into the bocage - ancient, shoulder-high hedges which provided perfect cover for the entrenched Germans as the Allies pushed inland from the Normandy beaches.
Infantry troops had to fight their way forward field by field and even tanks found it hard to make progress through the bocage. His remains were brought to the German cemetery, which is alongside the main N17 route from Bayeux to Isigny sur Mer, not far from the Omaha beach site where the Americans sustained 3,000 casualties as they came ashore on D-Day. Of 225 Rangers who landed to take the strategically important battery at Pointe du Hoc, only 90 were left standing 36 hours later. The casualty rate of 68 per cent was D-Day's highest.
The cemetery was created by the American war graves commission as an emergency burial ground for Americans and Germans killed in action. After 1945, the American dead were reburied further along the coast at Laurent-sur-Mer and La Cambe was taken over by the German war graves commission. One of the biggest provisional Second World War graves in France, it originally contained 8,000 dead but that number was increased to more than 21,000.
Yesterday, under a cobalt blue sky, Alfred Gartner joined his comrades who lie two to a grave under the immaculate oak- and beech-shaded lawns.
Finding a soldier's remains is not uncommon in Normandy, where cemeteries contain 177,000 soldiers, 80,000 of them German. Most lost their lives in the battles that raged across the Norman countryside between D-Day, June 6, and Aug 20, when German resistance ended in 1944. Last year, the remains of 12 soldiers were found. This year, so far, there have been three.
Alfred left behind in Germany a wife and a young son. His widow, frail and now in her 80s, has been told of the find as has his son, now in his 60s and approaching retirement, but neither could be present at yesterday's 25-minute ceremony.
An honour guard, fittingly of German paratroops, was present as his remains, in a small coffin with the German flag draped over it, was lowered into the grave, which he will share with Herman Sarr, 37, who was killed on July 15, 1944. A party of German veterans, old men with silver hair and walking sticks but smart on parade in black blazers and grey flannels, snapped to attention as the coffin was lowered.
Their senior officer, Alexander Uhlig, of the 6th Parachute Regiment, who was awarded the Knight Order of the King's Cross for his valour in Normandy, wiped away tears as a simple floral tribute, bedecked with a riband of black, red and gold, was laid at the graveside.
With a last salute from the paras, both old and new, the coffin was lowered. Eventually Alfred Gartner's name will be recorded on the plaque which covers the grave. For the time being it will say only: "Ein Deutscher Soldat."
Thank you so much for sharing, almost brought a tear to my eye.
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howdo you play those ema files?
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Galaxy S2 Whoot!!
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Throw all 152 into a .rar and put it on mega upload, or rapid share. I've used rapid share before, took about a minute thirty to upload my file. Really easy.
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sorry for the stupid question, but how would I go about being able to view them?
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Normally I wouldn't butt in and tell people what to do, but reading this makes me think it was a pretty realistic and compelling battle.
THB i don't know what drop box is, but I do know what youtube is. Youtube is free advertisement. I bought this game thanks to that mockumentory, just think if your aar or "lets play w/ commentary" were to be watched by a enthusiast he would hear your commentary about how important your tactical flexibility and awareness is because this game is so realistic. He would then see your plan in action and think about what he would do differntly, thus interesting him in the game. Earning Battlefront a sale and giving yourselves some fame in the process.
Personally I love watching people play and see how they need to evolve tactics to meet certain situations, so i'm biased about "lets play" videos, but I hope you will give it some more thought. Thanks.
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yeah, tbh I loved shock force Marines but I never modded it. I just discoverd custom content with CMBN.
That, and my point was I would atleast be engaged(pun!) more in a equal force on force action then counter insurgency.
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Modern warfare is compelling, the death toll that can be dealt out staggering, and because of technology where the enemy/s will always know where each other are you always have think on your feet.
Drones, satellite thermo imaging, the land warrior system.
War is hell.
But seriously, its only compelling if you have a foe that can fight back.
The only threat in SF and friends is the ATGM, thats it. No wonder people wernt thrilled with it. It's boring. At times I even felt bad about the enemy situation.
step 1, scout for atgms.
step 2, assault and destroy them
step 3, mop up everything else with uncontested armor.
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Combat Mission: 40,000
FIX YER' BAYONETS TO YER' FLASHLIGHTS, LADS
OMFG YES!!!
/****s pants
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I hope its a new campaign system, where you choose our battle and what units, rather like the CC series.....only better. I want to see the land that my lads bleed for.
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CMWH40K Space Lobsters
Awesome.
OMFG 1 up!!!!
/****s pants
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thanks guys I'll check it out right now
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So tonight started like any other...trolling fourms, and I come across the thread asking for the best sound mod. So I check out the link and download it without giving it much though. But I decide to stick around and see what else I can find, so I find a Band of brothers menu sound pack, so I had another "Don't even ask just fk*ing download it. I'm then hooked. I find a new gui mod and install it ( i didn't honestly think the default needed to be replace, but whatever.) I then install some sound mod for the Americans yelling. After those few mods I feel pretty confident that I'm finished, but before I close the page a imiage catches my eye and I look further...
http://cmmods.greenasjade.net/mods/4517/detailsI read the description and think it sounded pretty cool.
So I install the mods (First time mod user for this game, BTW thank god its so dang easy!!!!!), put my headphone on and start the game. I'm instantly treated to an amazing music score and completely puts me in the mood. I select the campaign and realize almost everything from the sounds to the gui will be new to me. I read the campaign description on how the author wants to immerse the player and I think that its perfect because my new sound track already has me there. I load up the first mission and read the story and am instantly "there" (don't tell me you guys haven't ever experienced it :/)
I start the mission and begin maneuvering my men into place and out of no where BAM!!! (more like zip) I sound I instantly know as a real freg'n mg42 scares me so bad I jumped outta my seat, no freg'n joke.
I want to go on and on about how absolutely amazing the campaign is, you make real decisions about how the campaign will proceed next and you could come out for better or for ill for your decisions. I played through the whole campaign in about 3 hours, hence the time of writing this post.
Long story short thanks to modders I've rediscovered why I love this game so much. I can't wait to get home from work tomorrow and fire it up again.
if you've never modded before I highly recommend it.
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Food stamps are gonna be phased out by Mitt.
Thank goodness for that. That tax crap takes out 1500 a month from my freg'n check, once that happens I wouldn't mind paying full price for products. You had some points about how are they going to profit from a DLC exclusive line of products thanks for bringing that to my attention. TBH I was just blind rageing.
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RUM HAM!
So I would figure since all these games will use the same engine CMx2(?) why couldn't all the additions or changes then be applied to all the games? Sorry, just ticks me off about how much money they'll be taking out of my pocket with so little changes. If the engine stays the same you really are just paying full price for a model/skin/texture/map pack. which is essentially an expansion pack with any other game on the market, I don't see why this would change just because they're selling to a niche market.
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However, I'd give even green and poorly led German units a very high motivation level because in OMG they knew they were fighting on the doorstep of the Reich.
I'll disagree there. Yes some of the soldiers were third echelon troops but their leadership was top notch, their NCOs were battle tested, but their moral was terribly low, it wasn't motivation that won them the day, it was the lack of logistical support from the ally's that ultimately cost them the operation.
But as one can imagine it was the multitudes of problems for the ally's that really lost them the day. My argument I suppose is that it wasn't the motivation that helped them win, it was the Ally's over ambition. Well that and the Germans out numbed and outgunned the Ally's who jumped out of plans to attack behind enemy lines.....na, that couldn't of affected anything.
/endrantarguementthing
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BFC has stated that play between different game families will not be possible. Play between different modules of the same family are interoperable though. Which means that if you buy all the modules of a given family, you can use all the contents of all the modules together, as long as they were present at the same time.
Michael
Well If they make Battle of the Bulge what would be the difference between BN and BofB? Snow textures? the German snow textures would be interchangeable with the german eastern front stuff, so if you buy the EF game then all your really getting is some 30 million pissed off Russians in snow textures.
If they are both full fledged games thats $120?
I could/would pay full price for a game or sequels but After buying the core game BN everything else would just be Skin/model packs TBH unless they add rather large changes to the engine
They should make everything else expansion packs aside from the core game BN
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staggered column would of came in handy me thinks
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Squad formations. I'm entirely sick of watching my squads walk in a single file line.
If this game truly has a real POV spotting system then you need formations. Atleast the wedge and line formation.
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I hope you can combine all those games so you can jump between theaters in the same QB or campaign menu. I'm really looking forward to having true airborne models.
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wyoproducer , your videos convinced me to buy this game and to sign up on the forums just to thank you!
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Why can't Combat Mission look and run as well as Wargame: European Escalation?
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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Kickstarter the **** out of this game, and hire more employees then buy a frostbyte 2 engine (drools)