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The Germans really put up with a lot. When armored convoys went through towns, there was usually a jeep with a junior officer following them, and he would write
by chiph 9y ago
The Germans really put up with a lot. When armored convoys went through towns, there was usually a jeep with a junior officer following them, and he would write checks to property owners that suffered damage (perhaps an Abrams would cut a corner too closely and knock over a fence or the corner of a building).
The damage wasn't all one way - one REFORGER exercise a crew in an M-113 personnel carrier were killed because they failed to lower their antenna before crossing a rail line with it's electric wire overhead.
- skookumchuck 9y ago> The Germans really put up with a lot. I'm sure they did. But they also had recent experience with what it was like to be invaded by the Soviets, and knew what was going on under Soviet domination in the DDR. You'd put up with a clipped corner now and then, too. It's not really possible to have a well trained, ready military and not do lots of hard training, and the hard training inevitably results in damage and some deaths.