Questions Thread

[Born2Kill 007]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Galland

[mopskind]

Well the second guy served at the homefront after the Battle of Britain

[VonMudra]

Gibergsjager

All these years, my friend, and you still misspell that name. 

Still nice to see that he knows the word "Berg" (mountain) and tried to form a rank out of it. It´s however derived from the word "Gebirge" which is another word (next to the plural: Berge) to describe mountains.

Generally lower scores put you in infantry or supply or such, high scores put you in things like artillery or other math heavy areas, and having work experience could change things up, Panzermen were often ex-mechanics and electricians.  Fallschirmjager were generally the most athletic, highest scoring troops, and pilots generally had to have political connections or extremely high test scores, or civilian flying experience.

They also put you in a Panzer if you were not very tall or fit the expectations for being a regular in the infantry.

Pilots were heavily recruited from those taking lessons in operating a glider before the war. Gliding was promoted by the government for exactly that reason.

Yeah, I just am dyslexic for i and e, and often flip them in words, Gebirgsjager being one of them x3

And yeah, the Hitlerjugend ran a glider program for teenagers specifically to help train pilots.  There were also programs for HJ driving insturction and HJ Sailing instruction to train tank drivers and naval personal.

[MaJ.P.Bouras]

Which countries contributed forces to the Germans? I mean whole units not just counter-partisan duty. Is there a wiki or another site to read about that?

[Kading]

Which countries contributed forces to the Germans? I mean whole units not just counter-partisan duty. Is there a wiki or another site to read about that?

This looks about right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_non-Germans_in_the_German_armed_forces_during_World_War_II

[Thorondor123]

Well the second guy served at the homefront after the Battle of Britain

during that time Galland flew combat missions against his orders and later in the war he flew a Me-262 in his unit.

[CHRISTIEFRONTDRIVE]

Were there ever any official/formal objections to use of flame artillery?

[Jimi Hendrix]

Which countries contributed forces to the Germans? I mean whole units not just counter-partisan duty. Is there a wiki or another site to read about that?

contributed?

It's a short list.

-Italy and ummmmm............

 

[PanzerKnacker]

So, the german helmets, or any other, did they come in different sizes, and if not, how did they fit on too big/too small heads?

[THeTA0123]

I think its not neccesarly the helmet itself, but the webbing inside of it. And i believe there is some sort of "One size fits all" in wich the user can adjust the helmet the way he wants.

[Fuchs]

It's helmet sizes. I have a German helmet here, size inside the webbing says 56. It's a reproduction, I think. Maybe the iron is original but the webbing is definitely repro.

But yeah it's very small and the helmet just looks silly if I wear it. So I hope there's larger helmets or the German Heer would've been one silly place.

[THeTA0123]

58 is the "common size" for european folks. from experience with russian helmets, caps and such, 58 is "large" to XL

My russian helmets dont have a size indicator, maybe the germans seem to have one

[VonMudra]

German stahlhelms had sizes ranging up to 70 (though 70 was extremely rare).  For instance, the one I have is a size 66, with a size 59 liner.

[Turkish007]

I've got 2 questions regarding my findings in the X-WW2 mod.

1) Can someone tell me what this thing is?



It dropped out of the Ju52 with a parachute, so Im guessing its an ammo box or similiar.

2) Did the Commonwealth use any Zis-5 in North Africa, or is this just an easter egg?

[Fuchs]

That box might be the weapon containers. German paratroopers were dropped without their main firearms, so they had to scramble to the weapon container and grab it. Very shitty when you drift off.