CHG Big Bear OstFront- Feb 08

[gi-rene]

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Von Signal! Deutches Soldaten am der PanzerGrenadier Divsionen GrossDeutschland kämpfen die Russen auf der östlichen Frontseite! (BabelFish Translation)

My guys were able to fully kit me out with all the field gear and stuff I needed...

At morning line-up



Snow was from nothing in a few places to 3-4 feet deep.. Thats me stumbling, I'm 6'1" and its up to mid thigh...


Mein Kameraden shoots at the "Russian" woman that shot me... (I made the mistake of seeing the movement, aligned sights, noticed it was a girl, paused, muzzle flash, took my hit, vowed to never let a girl get a drop on me again, I think she beat me to the draw anyways, but...)


Sadly its only a blank firing gun owned by a friend...


and this is the famous "Vater Weinacht" picture, a guy from my US unit that went with me and another said I came out looking like the German version of Father Christmas (his wife is from Germany)





I will most certainly say that the Frontovik and the OstFront Soldaten both have my respect for fighting in weather even worse than this, movement is next to nil in the snow, if you go fast you'll fall or twist an ankle as I show up there, there were times I was lucky, or I could tell it was a low area, and we tried to move fast across open areas, but it never worked, I can see those areas being total kill zones, and our opponents realized that as well... I was part of the flanking group so we'd stay behind the unteroffizier would tell us to go as the front guys made contact and the rest pushed in behind them, we flanked out, but by the time we made it through the snow we arrived to hear the main fighting ahead of us and Russian and German "dead" where we were flanking too and had to struggle to catch up again...

Still it was fun and a bit miserable as the water finally got inside my lowboot around lunchtime but it was awesome, I'll be finishing my German impression to go OstFront more...

[krieg]

great pics there mate hope you had a ball the snow looks a bit cold thot
best krieg

[gi-rene]

It was fun but the combination of ice on top of large snow drifts made it hellacious on your back...

[Wustenfuchs]

Where's your gas mask soldier!?!?
Great pictures! Were you near Holcomb Valley?

[gi-rene]

1. The Wehrmacht hasn't provided me with the funds for one....

2. I have no idea... I just go to these places. I think we were there... Holcomb sounds familiar and I know we've done events there...

[krieg]

probley a silly question but are the weapons you use are they the real thing or
good looking toys ??:

[gi-rene]

Real, firing blanks. Or some use blank only guns like the MP-40s and some machineguns. But then you have the blank adapted semi-autos (so they cycle properly, like my M1 Garand and our unit's new BAR)

[krieg]

Originally Posted by gi-rene

Real, firing blanks. Or some use blank only guns like the MP-40s and some machineguns. But then you have the blank adapted semi-autos (so they cycle properly, like my M1 Garand and our unit's new BAR)

do you own these fine weapons .. or they belong to a club or somethink
like this
best krieg....

[gi-rene]

We all own most of our own weapons. Some are the "unit's" if they were purchased with unit funds and get bounced around and cared for my different people...

I own my M1 Garand, Mauser 98k, and soon a M1911A1.

[krieg]

if you dont mind me asking what would one of the german maching pistal
be worth
cheers mark