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Alan65
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« on: 2 September 2009, 02:20:22 »
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Map reading/planning / edit: road explications (when someone has a better word for 'explications'?)


edit: observation post for a machine-gun company


artillery observation


edit: Guard


cover for a scouting party


good friends


Getting a haircut


mail call


moving out in the morning mist


rest from the march


forward in the sun and dust


chow time


the back of one of the cards showing ordering information such as price and publisher
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« Reply #1 on: 2 September 2009, 08:32:41 »
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2= OP (Observation Point) of a MG Coy
4 = Guard(ing)

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#1 seems difficult to come up with a proper term, although it's a common enough scene.  Way/road/route+explanation/clarification would seem to be the literal translation.  Is the officier explaining a plan of attack?  issuing orders?
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« Reply #3 on: 3 September 2009, 10:52:50 »
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Quote from: Alan65 on  3 September 2009, 05:05:54
#1 seems difficult to come up with a proper term, although it's a common enough scene.  Way/road/route+explanation/clarification would seem to be the literal translation.  Is the officier explaining a plan of attack?  issuing orders?


look at what the 3rd guy from the right is holding, a signal shield for traffic guiding...
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« Reply #4 on: 3 September 2009, 21:14:46 »
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Quote from: Koen on  3 September 2009, 10:52:50
Quote from: Alan65 on  3 September 2009, 05:05:54
#1 seems difficult to come up with a proper term, although it's a common enough scene.  Way/road/route+explanation/clarification would seem to be the literal translation.  Is the officier explaining a plan of attack?  issuing orders?


look at what the 3rd guy from the right is holding, a signal shield for traffic guiding...


Good eye, Koen!  Aren't/were'n't MPs (military police) in charge of traffic/convoy guidance in WWII for the US?  I saw it in a movie, I think!
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