1940 Winter Patrol on the Western Front

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UFA Tonwoche No. 496. March 6, 1940. An infantry unit clad in winter fatigues on patrol.Their assignment is to locate an enemy observation post. Cautiously the men move forward using every part of the terrain.The patrol has reached the enemy position and brought back a wounded prisoner to the German lines.

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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.

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