Added: Dec 4, 2008
From: skoblinI
Duration: 1:20
UFA Tonwoche No. 496. March 6, 1940. An infantry unit clad in winter fatigues on patrol.Their assignment is to locate an enemy observation post. Cautiously the men move forward using every part of the terrain.The patrol has reached the enemy position and brought back a wounded prisoner to the German lines.
Channel: News
Tags: 1940 army front german ii line maginot phony reconnaisance siegfried sitzkrieg war western world
Rating: 5.00 (4 ratings) Views: 220 Comments: 2
Charlemagne8888 Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - 5*****
olivenstein Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - Interesting! Corps francs, mostly Chasseurs (including Capitaine Greille's Infanterie de l'Air) also organized in a "sizaine", would conduct the same sort of operations. Two sizaines often were combined for a 12-man raid: two FM 24/29 gunners, two "militrailleurs"--either Swiss Erma's or MAS 38's, the others with Berthier M1892 rifles (seldom MAS 36 carbines). Sometimes one raider would have a shotgun double-barrel, like the "nettoyeurs" of the Great War. The injured PoW is just a sentryman.