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Post by hribal on Jan 19, 2008 15:21:57 GMT -5
I was thinking doing this impression since i am a younger player. I am 17, going on 18 in June. I have a AGM MP-40 and magazine pouches for it. I am ready to start building a look, and since i am young i figured this would best fit. I also wanted to say i have just gotten my German "whitewalls" haircut yesterday and will post pictures seeing what you guys think.
By the way, i am also looking for a team, i am located in western PA.
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Post by neoptolemus on Jan 20, 2008 2:42:37 GMT -5
Are you confusing Volksgrenadier with Volksturm?
Volksgrenadier were reformed Heer units made for Wacht am Rhine. I think they consisted of personnel fit for army but who had previously avoided service; that is they would have been older rather than younger.
Volksturm was the militia unit with the very young and very old.
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Post by hribal on Jan 20, 2008 18:33:35 GMT -5
Volksgrenadier was the name given to a type of German Army division formed in the Autumn of 1944 after the double loss of Army Group Center to the Soviets in Operation Bagration and the Fifth Panzer Army to the Allies in Normandy. The resulting strategic emergency and concomitant manpower shortage required the creation of infantry divisions that economized on personnel and emphasized defensive strength over offensive strength. The Volksgrenadier divisions met this need by using only six line infantry battalions instead of the normal nine for infantry divisions — already a common reality for many existing divisions — and by providing more short-range firepower in the form of automatic weapons like the new "wonder weapon" Sturmgewehr 44. One of the battalions was provided with bicycles, in order to provide some semblance of a mobile reserve. The name itself was intended to build morale, appealing at once to nationalism (Volk) and Germany's older military traditions (Grenadier). Around 50 were formed late in the war. Many prior infantry divisions that had been mauled or destroyed in combat were rebuilt to the new Volksgrenadier standard, and new divisions were raised as well. They were formed out of anything the Replacement Army could get its hands on: boys and elderly men, men previously rejected as physically unfit for service, wounded soldiers returning from hospitals, and transfers from the "jobless" personel of the quickly shrinking Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe, usually organized around small cadres of hardened veterans.Volksgrenadier divisions participated in the Battle of the Bulge, the defense of the Siegfried Line and Eastern Front, and the final battles in Germany. Many of the divisions were rushed into battle with a minimum of training, their morale shattered by earlier events and thus performed very poorly, though others acquitted themselves well given their weak organization and the poor strategic situation. Volksgrenadiers should not be confused with Volkssturm. wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksgrenadier |
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Post by Jager.Drü on Jan 20, 2008 19:43:52 GMT -5
Its still a basic Heer impression.
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