Things I learnt about WW2 from COH2
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PS: The Italian Army fought with courage and skill
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53. Hanomag drivers were given very specialized training on how to avoid and escape from enemy AT guns. This maneuver required the driver to turn the half-track 360 degrees around twice, then go forward and back a few dozen times before turning away and driving away from enemy fire.
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57. No machine gun could ever really be lowered enough to aim at crawling troops.
58. Halftracks would teleport soldiers from off the battlefield into a secret compartment from whence they would jump out and join a squad on the frontline.
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66 the party bus was the only effective way to counter german machine gun teams early on in the war
67 once germans tanks used smoke, there was no more incentive to fire any more, russians had a very short attention span
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Actually General S.L.A Marshall did studies on soldiers from WW2, and it showed that only about 20% of troops actually fired at the enemy, with many of them merely firing over the enemies heads as a form of posturing. Most of them would keep themselves busy by loading weapons for the ones that were firing, running messages, or doing other tasks.
It's all covered in a really interesting book called "On killing" and another called "On combat" by LT Col Dave Grossman (ret).
This study brought about the massive overhaul of combat training which eventually led to an increase from about 20% of troops firing at the enemy in WW2 to 90-100% by Vietnam.
Just a fun fact for you.
Fascinating, adding that to my book list.
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