Badger73 Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 On 4/25/2016 at 3:25 AM, John Kettler said: CMFDR, It is indeed a treasure trove, one for which you are most welcome. HyperWar is an excellent resource with gobs of goodies and links to untold riches of info. For tank destroyers, I know of nothing like www.tankdestroyer.net. The site is run by the son of a TD man and has all the relevant manuals, unit histories, pics and all sorts of juicy reports covering many months each. Bil, What a shame you didn't submit it first to me for prepublication review!( I refuse to use a tee hee emoticon.) You're quite welcome for the fact checking, and I look forward to seeing your full TD groggery on display ere long. Speaking of such, you may may find this of real interest, despite tragically poor quality and an unfortunate lack of hearing the various commands. And for the cherry on top, take a gander at this restored color film of TD training at Ft. Hood. Though a great deal is shown about simply training the men for war individually, there also grueling courses for groups, including crawling under barbed wire while very real and lethal bullets zip past, barely over the heads of those belly crawling. There is firing practice on sleeves and, live ammo vs, so help me, "Nazi" Shermans! How M10s fight in an integrated manner at platoon levels is there (hides, recce, movement to preplanned firing positions, repositioning, together with great shots of the halftrack 75 and (trumpets blare) firing footage of the M5 3-Inch Gun! Regards, John Kettler Thank you, John, for posting these! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasMorbo Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Hey Bill, that Comic is aesome! I totally like the perspectives and picture detail you chose! I have one point of constrictive criticism, though. I might be wrong but I recognize terms like 'Team Babbitt', 'Destroyer 1-3', 'coordinate with infantry' as modern day US Army language. Just as an example back in the days, what is today a Company Combat Team was simply an (reinforced) Infantry Company. Didn't sound that flashy, so Army Marketing changed that. Anyway I hope you give us more of these nice artworks! Best regards Morbo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Badger73, You're most welcome. Also, given you actually served on an Easy 8, I'd imagine this period training film resonates more for you than it does for most of us, Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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