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American WW2 machine gun training film

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MOOORE GUNS.

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delete this reply plz

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22 May 2014, 00:24 AMafrrs

can anyone translate : p

Upper left side: Victory or Siberia!
Upper right side: The turning point will come - Hang on!
bottom: Our loyalty to "Führer Adolf Hitler" (no need to translate

) guarantees the "Endsieg" (hard to translate, maybe 'ultimate victory')

My history boner has become so large looking through this thread

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More pics with a little Background information can be found here:

http://www.coh2.org/topic/20719/lummel-s-tank-museum-report-thread

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Great videos of British units on the road march in normandy:

Bridging operation in France by engineers:

British armored division's assembly area. This includes engineering tanks. German POWs and wounded inspected.

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Nazi propaganda newsreel footage. It looks like autumn 1943 during the general retreat of the wehrmacht westwards:

-Stug batteries attack with grenadiers

-Panzerwerfer and nebelwerfer batteries firing

-Tiger tank, Panzer IV and Marders.

-Scorched earth tactics with pioneers, detonations of buildings and destruction of the rail system, dislocation of civilians

-Panzer IV platoons and Marder batteries attack with grenadiers. soviet pows

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Totally awsome footage I love it

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really cool movie

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The Nazis made their newsreels look like awesome action films:

1942 Summer offensive, Army group Center

Waffen SS ; Panzer IVs; artillery observers; village on fire; German elastic defense (HKL); 'Stosstruppes'(assault grenadiers) after a counterattack/counterassault; divisional commander @ CP congratulates them; iron crosses; FM Model; Fighting in the outskirts of Stalingrad (Spartanovka??)

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1944, Panzer division GD defending Rumania vs. elements of 2nd Ukrainian front (konev)(?).

Mobile defense tactics with Panzerregiment 'GD'. Lots of Panthers engaging in long range sniping. Infantry sections move around the battlefield. Commander GeneralLt. Manteuffel.

Winter 1943: defense of the Dnepr

Tiger tanks and stugs attack with infantry and artillery

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Real destroyed Sherman 14:45

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Soviet light, medium, and heavy artillery batteries.

Guards motor Rocket artillery.

Soviet high power batteries, heavy AA, Guards motor brigade..quite a sight.

Soviet attacks Jan 1943 Operation Iskra