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    #16
    Some time ago was here topic about identification this machine gunner.
    Someone recognise this guy as Walther A., someone else said it wasn't Walther A.

    If I'm not wrong, this famous from photos soldier never spoke in books, newspapers or tv about december 1944 and this ambush. Even now, after so many years.

    I always wondered about his fighting knife from photos, and want know
    did he use the knife in hand combat with GI

    Ps, Do we know who was soldier in raincoat under american vehicle with nahkampfspange ?

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      #17
      100 fotos?

      Well we've got 3 already. I'm looking forward to see the other 97!!!

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        #18
        I've seen a few from this sequence but never realised there were as many as 100 taken. Would love to see them. Mark.

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          #19
          Originally posted by uknews View Post
          I've seen a few from this sequence but never realised there were as many as 100 taken. Would love to see them. Mark.
          I highly recommend that book, it shows the best fotos (and stills) taken there, and also some "now" fotos:

          http://www.afterthebattle.com/osComm...roducts_id=109

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            #20
            You can find more fotos and infos here:

            http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...=poteau&page=3
            Last edited by Gran Sasso; 12-10-2011, 02:40 PM.

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              #21
              ambush

              ive seen these photos in my booksand on line but i am looking for a defo answer are they spring blured edge helmet covers and smocks
              again i mention helmet cover has no patches over the hooks so it is spring cammo but what cammo

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                #22
                You re-enactment shots are fantastic Gran Sasso...

                Ive always loved the 'After the Battle = Then and Now' books.

                Originally posted by Gran Sasso View Post
                You can find more fotos and infos here:

                http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...=poteau&page=3

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                  #23
                  Originally posted by northman View Post
                  ive seen these photos in my booksand on line but i am looking for a defo answer are they spring blured edge helmet covers and smocks
                  again i mention helmet cover has no patches over the hooks so it is spring cammo but what cammo
                  I also checked the fotos again, but while the smock seems to be BE, its impossible so say what camo the cover has.

                  As there was no snow, and the pine-trees keep their green colour all year round, I vote for the spring side to be worn.

                  Cover might be oakleaf, as the combination of BE smock and oakleaf cover was very common in 1944.

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                    #24
                    i agree there is no way to confirm these items, I have been re examining all pics in books and from on line. digitly cleaning the photos makes little difference . Icant even say with hand on heart , that the smock is BE . I think i can see a slight likeness to overprinted plane tree around the right hand shoulder( or is this illusion from staring too long) . I think this one, is one for the "possibly BE" sheet or impossible to identify. I am willing to rethink it if anyone has definitive proof either way.

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                      #25
                      This is another book to have about the Battle of the Bulge IMO
                      Attached Files

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                        #26
                        Hi,

                        Heimdal various publications about the "Poteau ambush" showed dozen of the pics, including a map of the US "destroyed" unit (if i'm right no single US or german soldier was even wounded !).

                        Famous alsatian Elimar Schneider (under the Greyhound with the helmet) is still alive i think.

                        http://www.malgre-nous.eu/IMG/pdf/elimar_schneider.pdf

                        See You

                        Vince

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                          #27
                          Originally posted by Panzergrenadiere71 View Post
                          This is another book to have about the Battle of the Bulge IMO
                          I had had that one, too (its the "father" of the one I recommended), but its in french only, and does not contain any "now" fotos.

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                            #28
                            Originally posted by FrenchVolunteer View Post
                            Famous alsatian Elimar Schneider (under the Greyhound with the helmet) is still alive i think.

                            http://www.malgre-nous.eu/IMG/pdf/elimar_schneider.pdf
                            Are you sure its him? Could not understand the writings, but it looks like he was member of the "Das Reich", while those soldiers were LAH.

                            Another foto of that soldier:
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                            Last edited by Gran Sasso; 12-27-2011, 07:42 AM. Reason: typo

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                              #29
                              I don't think It's the same guy. He was not awarded in november 1944 (picture) and a few days later he looks like a christmas tree

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                                #30
                                Originally posted by gran sasso View Post
                                are you sure its him? Could not understand the writings, but it looks like he was member of the "das reich", while those soldiers were lah.
                                +1

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