1940 Winter Patrol on the Western Front

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Interesting! Corps francs, mostly Chasseurs (including Capitaine Greille's Infanterie de l'Air) also organized in a "sizaine", would conduct the same sort of operations. Two sizaines often were combined for a 12-man raid: two FM 24/29 gunners, two "militrailleurs"--either Swiss Erma's or MAS 38's, the others with Berthier M1892 rifles (seldom MAS 36 carbines). Sometimes one raider would have a shotgun double-barrel, like the "nettoyeurs" of the Great War. The injured PoW is just a sentryman.