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The Panzerfaust
By: BYTORtheSn0wd0g Date: November 18, 2016, 9:12 am
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Good read for WWII enthusiasts. I cannot imagine or fathom
what these men felt and went through. On both sides of the
line.
HTML http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/nazi-germanys-scary-world-war-ii-tank-terror-weapon-the-18430
:salute: :salute: :salute: :salute: :salute: :salute:
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Re: The Panzerfaust
By: FhYikGwAlOU Date: November 18, 2016, 11:13 am
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Thanks Bytor - good read.
And, like you said, hard to imagine that scenario and the
god-awful amounts of courage needed to endure. :salute:
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Re: The Panzerfaust
By: Maddog STS Date: November 19, 2016, 4:43 pm
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Interesting...I've seen these in the hands of German
re-enactors. Hard to believe something like that could take out
a tank.
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Re: The Panzerfaust
By: Guderian 9139 Date: November 21, 2016, 11:37 am
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The Neopolitans make a large dense potato croquette with mozz
and salami called the Panzarott
(pronounced Panzer-Rote)
as they have taken me out a few times, I dubbed them
panzerfausts :bigsmile:
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Re: The Panzerfaust
By: squiggy78 Date: November 21, 2016, 3:06 pm
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I'll show you poundherfast!
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Re: The Panzerfaust
By: FhYikGwAlOU Date: November 21, 2016, 3:37 pm
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[quote author=squiggy78 link=topic=4122.msg65791#msg65791
date=1479762391]
I'll show you poundherfast!
[/quote]
No you wont - i will scrape my eyes out with rusty forks before
i am "shown" that :puke:
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Re: The Panzerfaust
By: Knight of Annwn Date: November 21, 2016, 7:32 pm
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My Fathers unit was part of XXX Corp which was the armoured &
Infantry units tasked with pushing through to the bridges at
Arnhem. Unfortunately the Dutch fields would not support the
weight of the Firefly's so they had to stick to the narrow
lanes, which were lined with thick hedgerows perfect in places
for Panzerfaust ambushes. He had to pull together a special
group to sweep the hedgerows for ambushers, the worst they came
across was 4 separate teams of Hitler Youth who averaged the
ages of 14 to 16 years old!! Needless to say they did not
discover this until they had been wiped out, it had quite an
impact on his men.
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Re: The Panzerfaust
By: squiggy78 Date: November 22, 2016, 8:17 am
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Wow Knight great read. Love to here more story's.
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Re: The Panzerfaust
By: Knight of Annwn Date: November 22, 2016, 2:35 pm
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My Father was wounded outside of Valkenswaard on the push to
Arnhem when they ran into two battalions of Paratroopers, and
two battalions of the 9th SS Division. This was their second
time at fighting the 9th after they kicked their ass at Caen. He
was returned to the UK for treatment and for him the war was
over, he never got a chance to set foot in Germany, which is
what he wanted to do the most. Amazing when you think he was in
North Africa as one of the fabled Desert rats of the 8th Army,
was besieged in Tobruk for 6 months, and escaped without so much
a scratch. After El Alamein and Tobruk, he went through Sicily,
then 3 months at Monte Casino and then home in time to go ashore
on D-Day at Gold Beach. Imagine surviving all of that without a
scratch only to get wounded on the final leg, I know that always
frustrated him, and how he was always thinking about the men he
had lost on the journey, and would once a year recite all of
their names to ensure they were never forgotten.
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Re: The Panzerfaust
By: squiggy78 Date: November 22, 2016, 11:18 pm
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Wow is all I can say!
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