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May 1940 thousands of German tanks
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strike deep into Belgium Holland and
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France and a new era in armored warfare
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begins this
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is blitzkrieg move fast
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hit hard move half again the Allies
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stunned by the speed of the attack sent
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thousands of their own tanks to meet the
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advancing man once that arm starts
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rolling it's damn difficult to stop
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for the first time in history two giant
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armored forces clash
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it becomes one of the greatest tank
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battles of the Second World War there
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was fire everywhere huge fireballs we
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were absolutely blinded
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at stake is nothing less than the fate
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of Western Europe the situation is now
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absolutely desperate this is the Battle
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of France
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Sedan France on the Meuse river near the
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Belgian border this Pleasant rural
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countryside is dotted with crumbling
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concrete bunkers stark reminders of
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Europe's dark past a time when the
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entire world teetered on the brink of
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disaster September 1st 1939
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a German armed one and a half million
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men strong streams across the border
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into Poland Second World War
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already Hitler's forces of annexed or
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conquered large swathes of Eastern
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Europe in the spring of 1940 he turns
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his attention to the West
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but the Western Allies are ready since
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the fall of Poland France and Britain
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have been building defensive
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fortifications stockpiling ammunition
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and massing men and machines in Western
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Europe the Allies believe they are ready
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for the inevitable German invasion by
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May of 1940 they filled almost three and
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a half million men 14,000 artillery
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pieces and 3,600 armored vehicles a
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formidable defensive force that
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outnumbers and outguns the Germans for
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their invasion Germany has assembled 2.4
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million men more than 7,500 artillery
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guns and only 2,500 tanks
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under conventional military doctrine the
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attacker should always be stronger than
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the defender but the German plan is
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anything but conventional their plan
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calls for 10 Panzer divisions to charge
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west across a 250 mile front with a main
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attack driving through the Ardennes
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Forest their goal surprise
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divide and destroy the Allies
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the hilly rugged Arden is considered
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poor terrain for tanks
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here heavy armor can get bogged down in
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the deep woods and gullies
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it's one of the most unlikely places for
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a Panzer attack and for that reason it's
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perfect
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at no point the French I commend was
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prepared to suffer an attack in the
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islands
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the speed and ferocity the German attack
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catches the Allies off-guard still
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clinging to military tactics of the
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first world war they are ill-prepared
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for general Heinz Guderian 'he's new
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form of mobile armored warfare the
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blitzkrieg
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Guderian and all the young panzer
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journalists they understood that speed
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and mobility and confusion are the key
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elements of the strategy
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creating a center of gravity breaking
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through piercing through it then break
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out and create confusion and terror
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so the enemy's army collapses
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more than 1700 Panzers cross the our den
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with shocking speed they cover 60 miles
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of difficult terrain in less than three
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days and by May 13th are only 180 miles
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from the English Channel reeling from
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the German attack the Allies send all
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available forces East to intercept the
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Germans near the Meuse river nor shovel
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dogs on and media Tezuka dog law we
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receive urgent orders to rush forward
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and counter-attack the Germans that had
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crossed the mers assure though we had to
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stop them and throw them back across the
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river to the other side
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spearheading the Allied counter-attack
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and rushing headlong to the rapidly
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advancing Panzers are three dozen French
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light tanks the FCM 36 is well protected
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by 1.6 inches of frontal armor but it's
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short barrel 37 millimeter main gun is
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designed primarily for infantry support
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and is all but useless against
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Guderian's tanks
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Sentosa in recent activity all of a
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sudden we saw clouds of dogs and mommy
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we were surprised that it was German
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armor it wasn't just two or three
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it was more like dozens of Panzers and
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they were armed with cannons with Long
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Barrow
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advancing towards the French or dozens
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of Germany's formidable Panzer Mark
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threes they are armed with a longer
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barrel 37 millimeter cannon giving the
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mark 3 much more killing power than the
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French tanks
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we take the shell we put it in the
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cannon we gain and we fire
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we don't have time to think
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Suvorov canoe but we couldn't pierce
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their armor brother
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hey hey I saw some of my comrades get
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hit first they were dead without being
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able to do anything
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it's awful to think that there's nothing
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you can do to help them but they just
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couldn't defend themselves against the
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larger and more powerful German cannons
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the FCM 36 we're no match for the
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Panzers the main drawback was our
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momentum which was the short gun which
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was almost useless against
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the FCO camera - a our short cannon
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could not pierce their armor all we
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could do is try to blind the drivers of
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the vendors in front of us they policy
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their own it wasn't easy to aim we were
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raising the cannon up and down with our
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shoulder to pick the area we wanted to
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hit but we somehow managed
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Oh postman pop Oh only I call me right
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we don't even think if we're going to
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make it or not we have to do what we can
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with what we have that's all if we get
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killed then so be it
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maken 1001 shells hit our armor the
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steel turns bright red inside the tank
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shards of metal would fly out pieces
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that were red-hot and piercing Ziegler
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it cut away the shell the compactive we
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love occur when we see a tank burning
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with shell holes and the crew inside it
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hurts we feel it and we try to avenge
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them
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while I was looking a German shell hit
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our turret it didn't go through but it
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shattered the periscope and it fell on
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you not only out
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mosha la mode my tank was the last to be
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knocked out
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hey do you sharpen religion after 39
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tanks that set out that morning at 11:30
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only 10 remained a me but we stopped the
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Germans that was our goal alone
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despite their losses the French tanks
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slow the German advance forcing Guderian
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to change his plans he decides to bypass
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the French defenders to the south and
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continue his lightning attack west but
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as the German blitzkrieg cuts a narrow
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swathe westward its flank becomes
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increasingly extended and poorly
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defended the French realize that this is
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just the break they need and send two
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battalions of their heaviest tanks
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straight into the vulnerable German flag
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may 10th 1940
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determined to dominate Western Europe
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Hitler launches a massive blitzkrieg
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into Holland Belgium and France
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the Brits weak from a German point of
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view was just the wharf movement they
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always tried to move fast
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hit hard move fast again and create
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confusion and terror and the back land
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of the enemy
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so the enemy summit collapses in just
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three days the Germans advanced more
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than 60 miles through the Ardennes
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Forest
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and the Allies caught off guard send all
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available forces east to meet the
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onslaught although their light tanks are
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outgunned and they sustained heavy
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losses
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the French managed to blunt the German
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attack forcing them to change their
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plans and proceed with their advance to
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the West Guderian's Panzers cut an
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18-mile swathe deep into france but at a
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cost his flanks are now overextended and
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vulnerable on May 15th
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the French attacked the Germans left
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flank aiming to capture the strategic
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high ground at the French village of
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stone the small village of stone was
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crucial it was crucial for the Germans
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to old it to secure their great head and
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also their move westwards
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for this critical battle the French have
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deployed 68 of their most formidable
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weapon the heavy char b1 fish tank the
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most feared allied tanks for the Germans
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I think the most feared as the French
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shall be one a massive barking tank with
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60 millimeters of armor the Chevy was
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the the nightmare of the German tank
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rules
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when I rode a conveyor jet cable the day
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of the battle was very nice it was ideal
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for us we had great visibility from our
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tanks
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we could see far into the fields
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he can't be home at that we had to go
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into stone on a scouting mission but we
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didn't have a radio at the time so we
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were on our own we not only had to fight
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the Germans but we had to prevent them
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from getting past us going up the hill
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we didn't see anything no sign or
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contact with the enemy
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as we continued to advance we still
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didn't see the enemy
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so we had to keep our guard up while we
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move forward yellow yeah yeah Carrasco
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we first made contact when German
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machine guns on the water tower opened
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fire and started shooting at us
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completely infiltrated into
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the Germans put a machine gun on the
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water tower they were shooting at us and
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pinning down our soldiers we had to fire
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our 75 millimeter at the water tower
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contact so I drove up to get closer
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oh she um she longs we had to get into
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position to fight on the machine gun
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nests so we could not get out
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Nadja Teixeira Plateau we just had to
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eliminate them and move on
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understand
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Phoenicia I kept driving the tank we had
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to advance and keep engaging the enemy
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so I was shooting the 75 millimeter
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cannon Jedi's Opelika had to take that
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position and keep that here from
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gossiped Carina as the big French tanks
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reach stone they come under heavy fire
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from well-hidden German anti-tank guns
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inside we shall be we were very
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confident that our strong armor would
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give us safe from danger or injury
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nicknamed the Colossus the char b1 biz
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is protected by more than two inches of
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frontal armor making it virtually
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impregnable combined with its incredible
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firepower the char b1 Biss is the most
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powerful tank on the battlefield and the
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deadliest foe of the German anti-tank
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Gunners to fire from three heavy enemy
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tanks threatened the wipeouts of the
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tune at one point one is a giant stood
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sideways our left gun commander spotted
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a small hip surface in the middle of the
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enemy tank side apparently a kind of
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radiator he aimed at it
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idiot a flames shot out as a tank now is
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a to feel guns fired only at those
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little squares and decide ins a 32-ton
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enemy tanks
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Boresha liqui at that moment I decided
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to release a smoke shell so we could
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escape from there get up here - until
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you coming out of the smoke there was an
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anti-tank gun right in front of us he
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was getting ready to fire at me but he
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didn't have time I was too close and I
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couldn't fire there was only one thing
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to do I had to drag my dang
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if we reap acid Reepicheep Oh the crew
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of the anti-tank gun were raising their
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hands I couldn't fire at them
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so the tank commander took care of them
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who cannot vote against you shove dishes
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on the creepy
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here's your share on Twitter but we left
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the village and went back to our base
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lucky to be in white Beach the french
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flanking attack at Stone fails and
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Guderian's Panzers continue to push
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through the our den virtually unchecked
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to Guderian's north that the spearhead
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of the German advance is the elite 7th
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Panzer Division led by Germany's most
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famous Panzer commander Kerwin rum
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by May 14 Rommel and his tanks reached
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the Belgian village of Faviana
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their last obstacle before the flat open
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country leading to the English Channel
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if they can break out here Rommels
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highly mobile Panthers will be just a
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few days from the coast threatening to
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split the Allied armies in half
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may 15 1914 it means five days as the
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beginning of Hitler's invasion of
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friends and his mighty Panzer divisions
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have already bludgeoned their way nearly
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100 miles through the rugged art day
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repeated attempts by French armor have
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failed to stop the German blitzkrieg
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they are now 155 miles short of their
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objectives along the English Channel
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leading the way is a win Ronald's mighty
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7th Panzer Division which is on the
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verge of breaking out of the yard and
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into the Panzer friendly Belgian flat
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lands in desperation the French rush 170
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tanks of their powerful 1st Armored
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Division north to head Rommel off near
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the Belgian village of Flavio but the
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French advance is slowed by tens of
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thousands of refugees who choked the
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roads and block their path
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don't you try me she have to cross a
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crowd of refugees it took us five hours
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to cover just three miles help Ashland
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only shockabra
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the fields were filled with a crowd that
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was completely lost and insane corporate
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Montville do corporate waponi bit by bit
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the French managed to push through the
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human chaos and finally reach Flavio the
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French tankers are exhausted and now
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critically short on fuel
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as the French rest and wait for resupply
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they are spotted by the seventh Panzers
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advance guard it's more than Rommel
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could have hoped for
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before him and completely unaware of his
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presence lies the French 1st armored
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division Rommel splits his Panzer force
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in two and moves them into position on
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either side of the oblivious French
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tanks his deadly trap is now set any
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encounter between German allies has got
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to the beam supplies and usually the
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result of those battles as much as
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anything else it's just like a Western
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gunfight it's the Guerlain who keeps his
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cool and gets his shot off first hits
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ring against the honor on the
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my driver shouts there's a tank by the
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edge of this wood I realized then that
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the whole of our left flank is back with
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German tanks
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what the Germans did was to build a
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circle they often move around them and
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shoot from every side the German tanks
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um tried to act like wolf pack's pain
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tried to get around isolated shall be
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one
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which was quite ease because the Li
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tanks were scattered among the benefits
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so they picked one out already using the
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radio tool to say let's pick this one we
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wonder right have first tanks
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so all the pains were concentrating in
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this one lonely shall be one
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surprised and low on fuel the scattered
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French tanks are all but helpless
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against the Panzer and bush
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after four minutes
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each french tank was fighting for itself
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and I closed for the tank on his left
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and the tank on his right red flashes in
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a crash on our armor one shot strikes a
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side door which bangs open half mangled
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imaging you you are a tank commander you
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are alone in your turret
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you have to eat nothing you'll serve to
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mana to man your gun you have to cite
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you have to choose your enemy
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you have to fire and yet to do
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everything you are like a timber and man
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inside the coffin steel
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in the French thing I mean the toad was
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just seen to slit the few hole and was
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seeing just rotating tanks around him
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and he couldn't revolve the toilet just
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to keep track with one let let us speak
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of five or six or seven one hits him to
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our radiator another cell strikes our 75
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millimeter gun jamming it the noise is
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deafening as we're hit from all sides
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but we keep firing with the forty seven
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millimeter cannon when you confuse the
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enemy enemy tank crew enough of you
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shooting sometimes we'll hit the tracks
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you will hit something vulnerable or
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they simply will get up under the
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pressure my right track is rattling
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furiously and my forty seven millimeter
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gun has been worked so hard that the
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breach could not be closed so we
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withdraw slowly
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human tanks would find a weak spot would
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take them out somehow and then
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concentrate on the neck like animals
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jumping from one point or the other like
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really the predatory animals on the next
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I've always a terrible place for the
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French tank Falls the division was
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completely smashed up it was unable of
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any other action Rommels attack destroys
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two entire tank battalions and by the
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end of the day the French 1st Armored
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Division originally 170 tanks strong is
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reduced to just 36 the victory at
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Flavian allows the Germans to break out
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the rugged terrain of the Ardennes of a
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tank friendly country of Western Belgium
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and they advance to the sea full speed
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allied command scrambles to mount
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another counter-attack against the
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ever-lengthening German flag
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and now the stakes are even higher if
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the Blitzkrieg can't be stopped
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all of Western Europe will be lost May
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1940 Allied armies fight to stop the
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German invasion of Western Europe but
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it's a losing cause
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after almost obliterating the French 1st
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Armored Division at flavio General Erwin
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Rommels Panzer break out into the open
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country of western France and Belgium
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race almost unopposed towards the
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English Channel the French High Command
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desperate to stem the German onslaught
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quickly tries to reorganize their
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armored forces at Stahl their mission is
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to slice through the German southern
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flank and cut their lines of
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communication and supply but five days
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of constant German attacks have taken a
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heavy toll on the French their army is
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wracked by severe disorganization and at
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the last minute they call off the attack
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but in the confusion the message doesn't
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reach the 49th tank without
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and on May 15th at 5:30 p.m. without
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artillery or infantry support they begin
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their advance towards the German line
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mixing shop you know with our five tanks
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we merge from the woods do you what you
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want you can keep receiving we were
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surprised by an artillery barrage but we
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had to go through it
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although we couldn't see there was fire
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everywhere
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like huge fireballs and huge chunks of
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Earth we were absolutely blinded by it
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all Leon
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shit we what if he missing we got beaten
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up
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we had to look for a way out so at that
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moment we began to assemble into line
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formation and throw ourselves into the
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attack
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having just made it to the barrage we
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needed he came under fire by anti-tank
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guns too
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the French have driven straight into a
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trap a v-shaped killing zone where
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German anti-tank guns are positioned to
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catch the advancing tanks in a deadly
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crossfire
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when an anti-tank gun fires at you it
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makes a deafening noise come out and
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when it hits it leaves a mark inside the
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tank it creates a weird effect what I
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was afraid of is all the fuel's we had
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inside at that time we had the 100
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gallons of gasoline
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never mind the AP shells inside if ever
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there was a fire or a spark in there the
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tank becomes a bomb ship we decide
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whether I got hit 17 times from the
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anti-tank guns 12 on the rice five on
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the front give every tear it when an
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anti-tank gun fires at you it creates a
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long flame I was able to detect them
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like that
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when I saw flame I turned around because
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I wanted to aim where it was coming from
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turn and run away so I aimed TVD and
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fired so that she did I destroyed three
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anti-tank guns don't open me too we
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turned and saw the captain of our
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company ten yards in front of us of an e
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EF este tema de vermois his tank had
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gone down a ravine and got stuck in a
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stream turn driver was killed by a shell
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that went through that it's very
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different when you have comrades that
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are injured it changes everything
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sarang's to Aurora so we tried to save
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as many as we could show this hopefully
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we turned around and there was another
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tank command derby - hey laughs yeah uh
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shrimp - ah can you pee he gave us a
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sign that his driver was severely
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injured of monkey-see competition
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we drove closer and brought them into
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our town Misha Misha Bay wound up with
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nine people in the tank being stuck like
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sardines at that moment I couldn't fight
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anymore with the recoil of the gun I
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couldn't fire so I drove to the forest
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to bring the wounded to the ambulance
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the French attack failed and the German
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blitzkrieg continues rolling west
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towards the sea the formidable Panzer
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columns now seem unstoppable
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the Germans they were always up there
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they were always pushing they were
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always scaring people
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and you never quite knew how and where
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to react to that
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once that armor starts ro damn difficult
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to stop it
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on May 20th ten days after the invasion
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began the vanguard of Guderian's Panzers
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reaches the English Channel at Abbeville
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France and cuts the Allied forces in
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half the situation for the Allies is
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dire they must we link their armies
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before the Germans can bring up
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reinforcements and they prepare for one
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last do-or-die attack it will be the
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decisive tank on tank clash in the
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Battle of France May 22 1940
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blitzkrieg into Western Europe enters
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its 10th bloody day
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the vanguard of Guderian's tank force
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reaches the English Channel
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cutting the Allied armies in half but
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the Germans speedy advance has left them
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a thin and weakly defended Panzer
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corridor and hoping to exploit this the
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Allies mount one last assault aimed at
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smashing through the German flanks the
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plan a pincer movement near the city of
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harass with British tanks attacking from
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the north and the French from the south
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eris was seen as one of the main
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defensive posts that Britain would hold
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against the tide of the oncoming German
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what they wanted to do was to tempt the
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Germans past and then kind of slam the
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door behind
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having this conjunction of French coming
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from the south and British coming from
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the north literally putting a Steel
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Curtain down behind the Panzer divisions
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that are already got into France they
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cannot keep going because their supplies
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of the oil they they if we're going to
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have to turn back but the plan falls
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apart
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when the French army fatally weakened by
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ten days of continuous tightening fails
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to reach a racks in time for the attack
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without the French the allied tank force
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is reduced by almost
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leaving them with only two thousand men
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forty-eight field guns and eighty-eight
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tanks it is a small force easily
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outmatched by the tanks of Rommel 7th
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Panzer Division
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but the Allies realize time is running
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out and despite the heavy odds against
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them they launch their attack I was
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stopped at a little village just outside
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Aris - joined up the tongues what we're
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already out there we had about five or
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six Matilda's thing so we said self we
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just kept going as fast as we could we
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were told to shoot to kill
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the Matilda 2 is equipped with a 2
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pounder cannon capable of destroying
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German armor at a range of 1600 yards
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but it's most impressive feature is its
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3 inches of frontal armor making them a
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tilde to the best protected tag on the
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battlefield attainment was costing the
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most nerve on the German side was the
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materials it wasn't fair and it's gun
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wasn't so so impressive but the thick
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armor was impenetrable for everything
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but Remington the main anti-tank gun on
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the German side was a 37 millimeter and
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tanker this was so unaffected that was
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called
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army knocking machine so because it
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didn't anything but knock knock and then
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the time drove on so that was the
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nickname for this guy
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with no way to stop the Matilda's
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overrun German positions sending panic
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through the lines
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with his forces wavering and in retreat
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Rommel rushes to Arras to take personal
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command
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they arrived at Valley the enemy tank
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fire had created chaos and confusion
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among our troops we drove off to a hill
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west of the village
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found a light anti-aircraft hook and
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several anti-tank guns located in a
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small boy
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at the same time several enemy tanks
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were advancing down the road it was an
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extremely tight spot every gun
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to open rapid fire immediately I
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personally done its target when they
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broke their 88-millimeter they go
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through any tank so German 88 millimeter
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flak 18 gun was designed as a long-range
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anti-aircraft weapon and when used
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against tanks this high-velocity cannon
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can easily penetrate the thickest Allied
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armor even at ranges of over half a mile
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there was only time they framed
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now in the crosshairs of Ronald's deadly
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88 the British Matilda's have no choice
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but to continue their advance failure
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here at Arras would destroy any hope the
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Allies have for defending Europe
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May 21st 19 for in a do-or-die bid to
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stop the Nazi invasion of Western Europe
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the British attacked German positions in
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the French city of Ur ass
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going's a smooth coat who told you short
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to clear British Mathilda to heavy tank
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to lead the attack and he's a
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lighter German armed
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desperate to prevent a British
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breakthrough Rommel deploys is 88
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millimeter anti-aircraft guns the
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defensive line and orders them to fire
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the advancing Matilda every gun was
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ordered to open rapid fire immediately
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the enemy tanks so perilously close only
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rapid fire from every gun could save the
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situation the ant from gun to gun the
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objections of the gun commanders cetera
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were still too great to engage the tanks
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effectively we're over
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all I cared about was to hold the enemy
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tanks by heavy gunfire
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German tanks on the horizon and the
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Sooners shows it started firing us as
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you see to write your own obviously just
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just like that
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I can see him now one of the tanks
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backing up this road and shooting with
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his machine guns then that was it
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soon be succeeded in putting the enemy
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tanks out of action
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we now directed our fire against another
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group of banks attacking
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setting fire to some hulking others when
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forcings RS to hit feet
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I had a med killed in one he what
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without his head shoot of competent
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commander it open open visor on his head
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oh that was a bit sickening then
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although either under very heavy fire
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from the tanks during this action the
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gun crews worked magnificently
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so that was retreat might retreat
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I'm the only on where we got retreat
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we couldn't do this nothing I could do
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Rommels victory at Arras is hard won the
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Germans have sustained their heaviest
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casualties of the campaign losing 30
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passengers and more than 600 men but the
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British have suffered far worse just
701
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twenty eight of the original 88 tanks
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make it back to their lives and hundreds
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of men are killed and wounded after
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Arras and after the fighting western
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France we have lost virtually all our
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tanks all our anti-tank guns as far as
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Britain itself is concerned the
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situation is now absolutely desperate
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German divisions reach the coast and by
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June 4 the last British troops evacuate
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France and Dunkirk
712
00:42:45,130 --> 00:42:51,010
three weeks later France surrenders
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the quick and decisive German victory is
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a testament to the power of blitzkrieg
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and most crucial to their success are
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00:43:01,849 --> 00:43:08,839
their mighty Panzer formations in 1942
717
00:43:08,839 --> 00:43:11,359
tankers come of age the tank is now the
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leading player in the ground is what
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00:43:14,689 --> 00:43:17,390
brings France to ur knees and kicks
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Britain out of France
721
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a huge number of soldiers have lost
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their lives for the defense of friends
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especially in the tank forces all the
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men has fought fiercely with hope that
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their action stopped the enemy
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you don't build innovative function we
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lost the Battle of France we were simply
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overwhelmed by the enemy's equipment we
729
00:44:01,299 --> 00:44:05,189
had nothing to go against this mass
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Geller again using war is one thing
731
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losing hope is another the fall of
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00:44:16,740 --> 00:44:18,450
France is considered one of the greatest
733
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military victories of all time with it
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Hitler achieves what most thought
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impossible total Nazi domination of
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Europe
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